Games like Hold It In
If Hold It In is your kind of game, the closest matches are Polydangerous, Diseased and Monsters are Coming! — 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 It In: This game is a brutally hardcore sci-fi tower defense, featuring BBS-era and ASCII graphics. You are a commander who must use everything at your disposal to stop the AI horde from opening the rift, and unleashing a cosmic horror upon the earth.
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Steam players who put hours into Hold It In also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Polydangerous
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Top pick for Hold It In fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hold It In.
Build and defend a mining operation on a distant planet in this tower defense bullet heaven shooter. Build and upgrade defenses, fight off waves of enemies from a rival corporation, and earn enough credits to buy your body back and escape this deep space hellhole.
Diseased
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Second-strongest match for Hold It In fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold It In.
Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to widen borders and send your men to explore. Risk it all for vital resources, as surviving the relentless waves of the Diseased emerging from the dark will be harder than you think.
Monsters are Coming!
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Third-strongest match for Hold It In fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold It In.
Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?
Blue Dynasty:Town Defense
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Ranked #4 for Hold It In fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold It In.
Blue Dynasty is a Medieval ARPG/Strategy game that blends TD and Hack and Slash genres with Rogue Lite mechanics. Dominate the map by strengthening your equipment, but remember there is no shield stronger than the city walls. If you are looking for challenging discoveries, the dungeons await you.
The Merchant's Eden
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Ranked #5 for Hold It In fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hold It In.
Build a medieval town around a thriving market. Defend your citizens and traveling merchants against raiding bandits. A minimalist game blending cozy city-building and intense tower-defense as you grow and protect your town.
Australia Did It
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Ranked #6 for Hold It In fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold It In.
Deploy and merge units into 1,500+ variations to defend your train in tight Turn-Based Strategy battles, then see if your build survives Autobattler journeys between stations against massive monster hordes. Build you crew. Defend the train. Deliver the cargo.
Sineus Arena Survivors
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Ranked #7 for Hold It In fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hold It In.
Fight hordes and defend your Stronghold in a bullet heaven survivor-like with co-op and tower defense. Gain power-ups every level, collect random artifacts from chests and grow stronger to survive, defeat the boss and claim a top spot on the Sineus Arena leaderboards!
Echo Zero
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Ranked #8 for Hold It In fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold It In.
Descend into a dangerous, procedurally generated sci-fi underworld. Explore, gather resources, uncover powerful wargear and upgrades, rally your droids, build and defend your base, and battle a mysterious new species on the verge of breaching the surface, either alone or in co-op.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hold It In.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hold It In.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hold It In.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hold It In.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hold It In.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hold It In.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about Hold It In
- What games are most similar to Hold It In?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hold It In are Polydangerous, Diseased, Monsters are Coming!.
- Who developed Hold It In?
- Hold It In was developed by Timothy Graham.
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 It In.
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