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Games like Sphere TD

If Sphere TD is your kind of game, the closest matches are OurClicker, A Dark Cave and Loop Alchemist — 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.

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About Sphere TD: Sphere TD is a deep tower defense strategy game where you build every tower from scratch! NO presets! Route mods through grid layouts to fire projectiles: split, bounce, chain, pierce, multiply. A true one tower with 1,000,000 build combinations.

2026StrategyIndieEarly Access12.59 USDWindowsby Standard Issue Games
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Steam players who put hours into Sphere TD 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.

  1. OurClicker

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Sphere TD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sphere TD.

    From the creators of OurLife and OurCoven, OurClicker is a brand new clicker game that puts you in charge of an up-and-coming Game Development Studio where all you do is... CLICK!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  2. A Dark Cave

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Sphere TD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Sphere TD.

    Survive in a cruel world, build and expand your village, and descend into the darkness below. Gather resources, make difficult choices, and uncover the unspeakable truth hidden deep within the cave in this dark incremental game.

    2026StrategySteam ↗
  3. Loop Alchemist

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Sphere TD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sphere TD.

    You wake up in an unknown land. Again. Use the experience from every past life and your ever-growing knowledge of alchemy to extend each life through a robust alchemical system. Explore, break through and uncover all the world has to offer in this minimalist RPG distilled down to its purest form

    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Rejected Draft

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Sphere TD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sphere TD.

    You are a flawed doodle thrown in the trash. Battle rival sketches in an idle climb for revenge. Every enemy is drawn by community artists, with alternate versions and direct credits. In an unusual twist on builds, choose which enemies appear in your world, then defeat them to absorb their powers.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  5. Factory Time

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Sphere TD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sphere TD.

    A factory automation incremental game at the end of the universe. Start crafting by hand, automate production, and build the Chronoforge to escape.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  6. The Board is Yours

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Sphere TD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sphere TD.

    The Board is Yours is a strategic chess-based incremental game: buy squares, unlock upgrades, and chain synergies through defended pieces. It plays as a demanding idle game where you’ll constantly reposition pieces and optimize your production until the board belongs to you.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation2.50 USDSteam ↗
  7. Autodelve

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Sphere TD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sphere TD.

    A watch-it-happen roguelike meets a deep incremental. Your challengers dive, fight, and fall on their own — you spend their legacy to make the next generation stronger, and send up to six delving at once. Idle progress worthy of a second monitor.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  8. Hollowspire

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Sphere TD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sphere TD.

    A chill clicker-idle game where you dig, recruit and manage miners, and uncover buried upgrades deep underground.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sphere TD at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Sphere TD on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sphere TD.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Sphere TD on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sphere TD.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Sphere TD on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Sphere TD.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~41% under Sphere TD on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Sphere TD.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Sphere TD on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sphere TD.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Sphere TD on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sphere TD.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Sphere TD on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sphere TD.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under Sphere TD on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sphere TD.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sphere TD.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sphere TD.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sphere TD.

    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!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sphere TD.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sphere TD.

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  6. Disfigure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sphere TD.

    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!

    2023ActionIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. An Arcade Full of Cats

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sphere TD.

    Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 100 Asian Cats

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sphere TD.

    🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️‍♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️‍♂️🐈✅

    2023ActionSportsStrategyFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Sphere TD

How much does Sphere TD cost?
Sphere TD is listed on Steam at 12.59 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Sphere TD?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sphere TD are OurClicker, A Dark Cave, Loop Alchemist.
Who developed Sphere TD?
Sphere TD was developed by Standard Issue Games.

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 Sphere TD.

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