Games like Hold It In
If Hold It In is your kind of game, the closest matches are Don't Starve Together, Rhythm Doctor and Teardown — 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 handcrafted BBS-era graphics. Defend the rift from the machine horde or die trying.
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Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Top pick for Hold It In fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold It In.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Rhythm Doctor
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Hold It In fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold It In.
Save patients with your rhythm mastery! Rhythm Doctor is a rhythm game where you heal patients by defibrillating in time to their heartbeats. Learn each patient's unique heartbeat and defeat boss viruses trying to sabotage your rhythm, all set to heart-pumping, soul-soothing music.
Teardown
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Hold It In fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold It In.
Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.
UFO 50
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Hold It In fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold It In.
UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design.
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Hold It In fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold It In.
Embark on a journey to a realm overrun by demons in a new epic RPG from the creators of the critically acclaimed Pathfinder: Kingmaker. Explore the nature of good and evil, learn the true cost of power, and rise as a Mythic Hero capable of deeds beyond mortal expectations.
The Riftbreaker
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Hold It In fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold It In.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Insurgency
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Hold It In fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold It In.
Take to the streets for intense close quarters combat, where a team's survival depends upon securing crucial strongholds and destroying enemy supply in this multiplayer and cooperative Source Engine based experience.
Orcs Must Die! 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Hold It In fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold It In.
You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hold It In.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hold It In.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
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!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hold It In.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hold It In.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hold It In.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hold It In.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold It In.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Rhythm Doctor
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold It In.
Save patients with your rhythm mastery! Rhythm Doctor is a rhythm game where you heal patients by defibrillating in time to their heartbeats. Learn each patient's unique heartbeat and defeat boss viruses trying to sabotage your rhythm, all set to heart-pumping, soul-soothing music.
Teardown
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold It In.
Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.
UFO 50
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Hold It In.
UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design.
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 Don't Starve Together, Rhythm Doctor, Teardown.
- 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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