Games like Hold The Roost
If Hold The Roost is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rise Under the Warstorm, Hammerting and Steel Artery: Train City Builder — 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 Hold The Roost: A strategic tower defense where you command a flock of chickens to gather resources, fortify defenses, and survive relentless predator attacks. Balance growth and survival as you protect the next generation through treacherous nights against tactical predators.
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Rise Under the Warstorm
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Top pick for Hold The Roost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hold The Roost.
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Hammerting
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Second-strongest match for Hold The Roost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hold The Roost.
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Steel Artery: Train City Builder
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Third-strongest match for Hold The Roost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hold The Roost.
Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.
ALL WILL FALL
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Ranked #4 for Hold The Roost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hold The Roost.
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Captain of Industry
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Ranked #5 for Hold The Roost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hold The Roost.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Whiskerwood
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Ranked #6 for Hold The Roost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hold The Roost.
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Ground of Aces
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Ranked #7 for Hold The Roost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hold The Roost.
Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!
Nova Roma
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Ranked #8 for Hold The Roost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hold The Roost.
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
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Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Hold The Roost.
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.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Hold The Roost.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Hold The Roost.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Hold The Roost.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Hold The Roost.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Stray Cats in Cozy Town
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to Cozy Town, where every day is International Cat Day! Be part of a village community where every stray is respected, loved and fed. Explore the charming streets and alleys to discover all the stray cats in this hidden-object game.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
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Frequently asked about Hold The Roost
- What games are most similar to Hold The Roost?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hold The Roost are Rise Under the Warstorm, Hammerting, Steel Artery: Train City Builder.
- Who developed Hold The Roost?
- Hold The Roost was developed by Jody Hiatt.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Hold The Roost.
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