Games like SideTower
If SideTower is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shogun's Stand, D for Defender and Don’t Touch My Potato! — 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 SideTower: A side-view tower offense game where you defeat enemy kingdoms to unlock new towers and weapons, reshape the battlefield, and fight alongside your troops to survive increasingly difficult waves. Chaotic and fast-paced. Fulfill your destiny.
Players who liked SideTower also play
Steam players who put hours into SideTower 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.
Shogun's Stand
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Top pick for SideTower fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with SideTower.
Aim, fire, and fortify. Shogun's Stand is a fast-paced tower defense where you take direct control of your castle against relentless waves of feudal enemies. Place traps, command the battlefield, and level up to survive!
D for Defender
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Second-strongest match for SideTower fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with SideTower.
A Tower Defense with no respite, no waves, no end. Facing monsters that learn from your placements and adapt in real time to every one of your weaknesses, build and upgrade your defenses freely to create the perfect trap.
Don’t Touch My Potato!
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Third-strongest match for SideTower fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with SideTower.
Grow your farm by day, build your defenses in the evening, and protect the Potatron from zombie and alien attacks at night.
Risk The Crown
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Ranked #4 for SideTower fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with SideTower.
A tower defense roguelite where victory means knowing exactly when to run. Draft troops, defend your castle, and escape with your king before it's too late
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem
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Ranked #5 for SideTower fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with SideTower.
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem is an incremental-style tower defense game where you face an overwhelming number of orcs. Greet them with even more bullets, bombs and lasers!
Throneguard: Last Stand
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Ranked #6 for SideTower fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with SideTower.
Become the last guardian of the kingdom and defend the throne! Fight on the front lines with your sword, build barricades and towers between waves, and upgrade your hero. Throneguard: Last Stand is a 3D medieval action tower defense game.
Crypt Keeper
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Ranked #7 for SideTower fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with SideTower.
Unleash your inner necromancer in Crypt Keeper – a roguelite tower defense game. Raise skeleton armies, defend your crypt, and manipulate enemy waves with the ESSENCE-IAL update.
Phosphor Command
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Ranked #8 for SideTower fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with SideTower.
You command a forward operating base in a world ravaged by war and shadow contracts. Deploy squads into real-time tactical combat, research upgrades, manage a fragile economy, and push back a front that never stops advancing.
Free alternatives
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.
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 Action and Strategy with SideTower.
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!
Electoral Carnage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SideTower.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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!
Wheelchair Wizards
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SideTower.
Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SideTower.
《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 SideTower.
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!
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Frequently asked about SideTower
- What games are most similar to SideTower?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SideTower are Shogun's Stand, D for Defender, Don’t Touch My Potato!.
- Who developed SideTower?
- SideTower was developed by Spellativity and published by Homeless Mansion.
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 SideTower.
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