Games like Hold The Gates
If Hold The Gates is your kind of game, the closest matches are HeroesSagaZero, Aleef: Desktop Pet Collector and Ashen Crown — 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 Gates: Build by day, hold the line by night. A pixel-art roguelite where you raise a village, recruit heroes, and watch your formation hold or break against waves of monsters in real-time auto-combat. How long can you hold the gates?
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HeroesSagaZero
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Top pick for Hold The Gates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hold The Gates.
Pixel-art meets 2.5D battles in this strategy-driven, loot-focused roguelite RPG. Build your own team, master countless skill combinations, and collect gear with endless randomized options. No two strategies are ever the same—unleash your tactics and carve your path to infinite victory!
Aleef: Desktop Pet Collector
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Second-strongest match for Hold The Gates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hold The Gates.
Work, browse, or play other games while hatching eggs in the background! Collect 300+ pets with various stats, unlock powerful upgrades, and build your battle team.
Ashen Crown
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Third-strongest match for Hold The Gates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hold The Gates.
A single-player roguelite autobattler built almost entirely with AI. Pick a fighter, climb 20 battles to a final boss, and win in the build you assemble: 12 weapons, 24 classes, 53 subspecs, 247 skills. Go deep on one path or sprawl across many and break the game open.
Heritage
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Ranked #4 for Hold The Gates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hold The Gates.
Animount has been seized by Drammul, the Lizard King, and his army. The only one capable of stopping them is Oro, the serpent. Trapped in a cycle of reincarnation, choose Scrolls, skills and equipments, and join powerful Sects in this Auto-Battler Roguelike to defeat Drammul and save Animount.
Wonderland
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Ranked #5 for Hold The Gates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hold The Gates.
On the fantastical continent of Elfar, where swords and magic reign, you will establish and grow your own guild, leading members to accept quests, challenge dungeons, forge equipment, participate in competitions, and gradually uncover the secrets of the nine sacred sites
Fellwood
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Ranked #6 for Hold The Gates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hold The Gates.
Build a wild fantasy lumber empire that bombards a forest across the valley with axes, ballistas, cannons, and magic. Harvest flying logs, stack absurd upgrades, and automate your way to unstoppable woodcutting power.
The Fight for Beardlandia
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Ranked #7 for Hold The Gates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hold The Gates.
An auto-battler roguelike. Recruit fighters, equip them with weapons and crystals, then watch your party brawl through endless waves. Forge legendary gear, build class synergies, push deeper each run, and bank gems to permanently strengthen your next attempt.
Forever RPG
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Ranked #8 for Hold The Gates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hold The Gates.
Embark on a new adventure on every playthrough. Find equipment, meet all sorts of NPCs and battle your way through a short 10 chapter randomised story. A casual retro roguelite RPG you can play forever!
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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 Gates.
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.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Hold The Gates.
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Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hold The Gates.
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!
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Hold The Gates.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hold The Gates.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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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 Gates.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Hold The Gates.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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- What games are most similar to Hold The Gates?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hold The Gates are HeroesSagaZero, Aleef: Desktop Pet Collector, Ashen Crown.
- Who developed Hold The Gates?
- Hold The Gates was developed by DragonSmashStudios.
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 Gates.
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