Games like Hold The Roost
If Hold The Roost is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fill the Sky, Necromancer's Workshop and Rise Under the Warstorm — 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: Build by day. Defend by night. Command a flock of chickens in a tactical tower-defense survival game where every bird has a job. Gather resources, hatch and recruit stronger chickens, customize weapons and targeting, and outsmart predators with tricks of their own.
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Fill the Sky
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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.
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Necromancer's Workshop
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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.
Necromancer’s Workshop is a fantasy tycoon game. Craft zombies, work the land. Build a cozy countryside business, worth waking the dead for.
Rise Under the Warstorm
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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.
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.
Corsair Cove
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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 a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Moose Miners
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Ranked #5 for Hold The Roost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hold The Roost.
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
Hammerting
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Ranked #6 for Hold The Roost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie 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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Ranked #7 for Hold The Roost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie 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.
IDLE BOSS RUSH
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Ranked #8 for Hold The Roost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hold The Roost.
Slay giant bosses and turn the hollow wasteland into the almighty kingdom! Endlessly rewarding incremental game where you collect fountains of rare loot, unleash crazy combos and watch the monsters fall under your knees. Boss Rush that keeps on going when you're gone!
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and 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 and Indie 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 Indie and 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. Shares Indie with Hold The Roost.
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 and Indie 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 and Indie 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.
DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hold The Roost.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
Stray Cats in Cozy Town
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hold The Roost.
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.
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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 Fill the Sky, Necromancer's Workshop, Rise Under the Warstorm.
- Who developed Hold The Roost?
- Hold The Roost was developed by Battle Bongo.
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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