Games like CATHODE
If CATHODE is your kind of game, the closest matches are Prime Domination, Mechs V Kaijus 2 and Budget Defense — 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 CATHODE: Build sprawling defensive networks of high-tech turrets and logistics systems to repel massive enemy swarms! Take direct control of your turrets and utilize powerful support powers to repel the invasion!
Players who liked CATHODE also play
Steam players who put hours into CATHODE 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.
Prime Domination
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Top pick for CATHODE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with CATHODE.
Prime Domination is a real-time strategy game where you build your base, manage finance, produce powerful military units, and battle against AI or other players in large-scale multiplayer matches with up to 10 commanders.
Mechs V Kaijus 2
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for CATHODE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with CATHODE.
Mechs V Kaijus 2 is an Hybrid Tower/Base defense, with army vs army (tug of war style) tactics. From the cockpit of a mech, to build a huge base with Reactors, Mines and all type of tower army factories and super weapons.
Budget Defense
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Third-strongest match for CATHODE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with CATHODE.
During the day, he personally drove the war vehicle to attack the enemy. At night, he extracted oil to sell and use the money to build defense towers, working together to protect the base.
AeonFall
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Ranked #4 for CATHODE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with CATHODE.
Endless waves of 100,000 infected pour toward you. A brutally hard roguelike defense built on the Paradox of Progress: every advance raises the noise, and louder noise draws a deadlier swarm. Design your base, break through with one unit you control, and adapt each run. Survive a planet alone.
Void TD
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Ranked #5 for CATHODE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with CATHODE.
Build powerful defenses, collect loot, combine effects, and survive evolving waves from the void in a tower defense game driven by ARPG-inspired buildcrafting and persistent progression.
Mandate Order
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Ranked #6 for CATHODE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with CATHODE.
Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.
The Factory Must Fall
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Ranked #7 for CATHODE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with CATHODE.
Build the perfect factory, then let it go to war against other players! Draft buildings from a randomized shop, optimize resource allocation and army composition, then watch your factory crush your friends and foes in this PvP factory-builder.
StrategySteam ↗Hell Of War: Combined Arms
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Ranked #8 for CATHODE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with CATHODE.
Hell Of War is a Real-Time Command Action (RTCA) game where you command the operation from a command drone, coordinate infantry, armored vehicles, combat drones, and artillery, then seamlessly take direct control of units to personally intervene in the battle.
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 CATHODE.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CATHODE.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with CATHODE.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CATHODE.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with CATHODE.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CATHODE.
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.
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 CATHODE
- What games are most similar to CATHODE?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CATHODE are Prime Domination, Mechs V Kaijus 2, Budget Defense.
- Who developed CATHODE?
- CATHODE was developed by STARCAT GAMES LTD.
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 CATHODE.
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