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Games like Citadel Zero

If Citadel Zero is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deck Beasts, Dawnheart Keepers and Rally Point — 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 Citadel Zero: Defend the last citadel on a dying alien world. Summon a gacha collection of bio-engineered defense towers, forge a custom loadout, and conquer three modes, story-driven Chronicle, roguelite Contracts, and 1v1 PvP Ascension. Tower defense meets deck-building meta-progression.

2026StrategyIndieFree To PlayFree to playWindowsby PYRHAMID Studio
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Steam players who put hours into Citadel Zero 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. Deck Beasts

    WHY THIS

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

    Build a squad of pixel-art beasts and battle your way through the warp in this deck-building auto-battler roguelike. Draft beasts, equip abilities and items, collect relics, and destroy other players with broken builds.

    2026StrategyIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Dawnheart Keepers

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Citadel Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Citadel Zero.

    Hold the line across a voice-acted 21-mission campaign, or begin a Long Dawn run: a generated board, no gold, and a card draft after every wave. Ten spires, 41 foes, online co-op for up to 9 Keepers, 6v6 Rival Keeps, and a level editor with Workshop. Fully voiced in English and Hebrew.

    2026StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  3. Rally Point

    WHY THIS

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

    A real-time lane-pusher auto-battler. Choose what to deploy and where, then let your retro geometric troops take it from there. Spend supply to hold the control points or break the enemy base. Draft a new squad every run in the roguelite campaign, or bring your own to head-to-head and co-op battles.

    StrategyIndieEarly AccessSteam ↗
  4. Battle Waves: Card Tactics

    WHY THIS

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

    A fast-paced Card Battler with Tower Defense action! Claim victory in the Roguelite Deckbuilder campaign and Online Multiplayer. Collect all the factions to explore thousands of strategic combinations.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie3.89 USDSteam ↗
  5. Meteor Spin

    WHY THIS

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

    Meteor Spin is a cosmic roguelike deckbuilder where slot mechanics meet planetary defense. Spin the defense slots, trigger explosive module synergies, and protect your planet from incoming meteor storms!

    StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  6. Soulreign

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Citadel Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Citadel Zero.

    An indie soul-collector online RPG with inventory based auto-combat in the Backpack Battles lineage. Find and bind legendary souls, arrange their item grid, then watch the team fight. 25+ regions, a roguelite Descent, ranked PvP. Buy once, no pay-to-win. Join now and shape the future of the game!

    2026StrategyRPG7.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Tower Arena Survive

    WHY THIS

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

    Tower Arena Survive (TAS) is a dynamic mix of roguelike and tower defense, where your castle becomes an impregnable fortress. Use 80+ weapons and 88 upgrades to balance income, damage, and defense against up to 7 foes. Buy monsters to disrupt enemy waves and change the tide of battle!

    2025StrategyIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Septar

    WHY THIS

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

    Build scoring chains from a Romanian folk deck, weaponize the wild 7, and bend the rules with 59 relics as you out-race a gauntlet of folkloric opponents — the last of them Death. Sculpt your deck, pick a character, climb the Ascension ladder. Plus a friend-invite 1v1 best-of-5 series.

    StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Citadel Zero

Is Citadel Zero free to play?
Yes — Citadel Zero is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
Does Citadel Zero have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Citadel Zero supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
What games are most similar to Citadel Zero?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Citadel Zero are Deck Beasts, Dawnheart Keepers, Rally Point.
Who developed Citadel Zero?
Citadel Zero was developed by PYRHAMID Studio and published by PYRHAMID.

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 Citadel Zero.

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