Games like Critter Tactics
If Critter Tactics is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fortress Merge, Lanternwood and Slay Sean, Save The World! — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Critter Tactics: A tactical farm-building auto-battler where you grow crops, place powerful objects, and assemble a team of Critters to survive escalating combat waves. Every grid tile shapes your strategy, and no two runs play the same.
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Fortress Merge
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Top pick for Critter Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Critter Tactics.
Merge buildings, upgrade your defenses, and protect your fortress from endless waves of zombies. Plan each move carefully, adapt your strategy, and survive as long as you can.
Lanternwood
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Second-strongest match for Critter Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Critter Tactics.
Go on an Auto Battler Adventure with a Party of Heroes, observe them struggle, strategically build their Inventories to synergize with each other and allow them to succeed past any danger. Explore a myriad of Skills, Creatures, Events and Areas in this Auto Battling Fantasy Adventure!
Slay Sean, Save The World!
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Third-strongest match for Critter Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Critter Tactics.
A comic-book auto-battler where the Greek gods brawl. Draft your pantheon, fuse skills into game-breaking combos, and crush real players' ghost armies to climb from Mortal to Olympian. Rebuild your board every round. Then slay Sean and save the world.
Spell Breakers
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Ranked #4 for Critter Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Critter Tactics.
Build your Spell Deck, defeat your rivals, and aim for the top of the mysterious tournament, Spell Breakers! This is a new kind of auto-battle roguelike game where collecting over 300 spells is the key to victory!
Hive Blight
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Ranked #5 for Critter Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Critter Tactics.
Hive Blight is a roguelite autobattler where you lead a team of insect warriors against a corrupting Fungal Threat. Build powerful synergies, uncover the source of the plague, and destroy it to save your world!
I'm No Demonlord
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Ranked #6 for Critter Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Critter Tactics.
"I'm No Demonlord" is a Roguelike shooter bullet hell game. High freedom in mechanics leads to unique playthroughs. As a demon-possessed hero, battle enemies, grow, and unveil dark schemes. Can he accept his new role? Save "kinds" or destroy "outsiders"? Good or evil? The choice is yours.
Lootbound
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Ranked #7 for Critter Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Critter Tactics.
Lootbound is a tactical roguelite with turn-based combat, loot management and D&D elements set in a dark fantasy world. Fight dangerous enemies, collect epic loot, recruit allies and lead them on a path of adventure.
Cell Command
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Ranked #8 for Critter Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Critter Tactics.
TURN-BASED TACTICS meets SNAKE: A new roguelike in the Genome Guardian universe. SPLICE DNA to create new units, enhance their genetics, and take on the Abyss virus once more in a variety of different modes & match types.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Critter Tactics.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Critter Tactics.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Critter Tactics.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Critter Tactics.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Critter Tactics.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Critter Tactics.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Critter Tactics.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Critter Tactics.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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- What games are most similar to Critter Tactics?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Critter Tactics are Fortress Merge, Lanternwood, Slay Sean, Save The World!.
- Who developed Critter Tactics?
- Critter Tactics was developed by Omnivorian.
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