Games like The Citadel Must Hold
If The Citadel Must Hold is your kind of game, the closest matches are Doomed Night: Build Base & Explore, Dwarven Rampart and Kings of Cratia — 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 The Citadel Must Hold: Build a fortress, command your army, and survive escalating Monster Tides in a fantasy base-building RTS. Explore the wilderness with your hero, claim Places of Power, and shape every run through powerful Oaths and Decrees.
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Doomed Night: Build Base & Explore
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Top pick for The Citadel Must Hold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Citadel Must Hold.
Build your kingdom, expand borders, and face darkness. By day, gather strength, build defenses, and explore the land. By night, lead your army in tower defense, fight monsters with your troops, defend your people, and survive waves spilling from portals threatening all.
StrategySteam ↗Dwarven Rampart
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Second-strongest match for The Citadel Must Hold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Citadel Must Hold.
Raise massive armies and fight thousands of enemies. Dwarven Rampart is a fantasy roguelite strategy game where you build dwarven cities and fight massive fights. How long can you survive?
Kings of Cratia
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Third-strongest match for The Citadel Must Hold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Citadel Must Hold.
Kings of Cratia offers an experience that mixes real-time strategy and first-person shooter mechanics. Build your new village and manage your resources efficiently. Be ready to defend your village every day when night falls! RTS or FPS, you are free to protect your village any way you want it.
Lessaria: Fantasy Kingdom Sim
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Ranked #4 for The Citadel Must Hold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Citadel Must Hold.
Lessaria is an RTS inspired by Majesty 👑 where you guide heroes with indirect control. Play through the campaign or relax in sandbox mode as you build your magical kingdom.
Mandate Order
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Ranked #5 for The Citadel Must Hold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Citadel Must Hold.
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.
Here Comes The Swarm
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Ranked #6 for The Citadel Must Hold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Citadel Must Hold.
Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
The King is Watching
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Ranked #7 for The Citadel Must Hold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Citadel Must Hold.
The King is Watching is a roguelite kingdom builder. Rule by the power of your royal gaze! Decide between producing resources, training armies, or balancing both, while adapting to unique events every run
DarkSwitch
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Ranked #8 for The Citadel Must Hold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Citadel Must Hold.
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
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Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with The Citadel Must Hold.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with The Citadel Must Hold.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with The Citadel Must Hold.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with The Citadel Must Hold.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Dota 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with The Citadel Must Hold.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
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Frequently asked about The Citadel Must Hold
- What games are most similar to The Citadel Must Hold?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Citadel Must Hold are Doomed Night: Build Base & Explore, Dwarven Rampart, Kings of Cratia.
- Who developed The Citadel Must Hold?
- The Citadel Must Hold was developed by Klenisho Games.
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