Games like Neural Defense
If Neural Defense is your kind of game, the closest matches are Blinding Light, To Save A Planet and Asterism: Apex of War — 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 Neural Defense: Neural Defense is a sci-fi Tower Defense where you can sync with any of your towers and take manual control in third-person to defend your base against waves of corporate drones.
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Blinding Light
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Top pick for Neural Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Neural Defense.
A cooperative action tower defense and third-person shooter where vision is mutually exclusive. Place towers to shine light on the endless horde of bugs, or use augmented vision to fight alongside defenses. Equip powerful modules that unleash your strategy's true potential!
To Save A Planet
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Second-strongest match for Neural Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Neural Defense.
Fight across five solar systems in a story-driven mix of tower defense and space combat, where every planet you save brings you closer to the truth and to those you thought were lost.
Asterism: Apex of War
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Third-strongest match for Neural Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Neural Defense.
First and third person single player sci fi action shooter. Destroy the Neurobonded menace and prevent humanities extinction.
The Wall
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Ranked #4 for Neural Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Neural Defense.
Defend the city, Fight the dead. In this fast paced zombie wall defence game set in a neon cyberpunk world, you must man the wall, upgrade defences and build robots and turrets. Face relentless waves of undead as you hold out as long as you can. Its not about if the wall falls its about when.
ShootOut(SystemD)
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Ranked #5 for Neural Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Neural Defense.
ShootOut(SystemD) is a Third-Person Shooter with RogueLite elements. Shoot your way through procedurally generated environements. Choose your arsenal from a variety of weapons and tools. Save civilians and train them to be your backfire or healer. Capture Enemy bases. Defend yours.
MannyTD
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Ranked #6 for Neural Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Neural Defense.
Manny TD is a hybrid tower defense and third-person shooter with random in game elements. Join and get your personal high score!
Quantum Fight : Aero 2299
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Ranked #7 for Neural Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Neural Defense.
Become the champion of the ultimate galactic show in this intense blend of Tower Defense and tactical assault. Manage resources in real-time, deploy your AI squads, and annihilate your rivals before billions of spectators in Quantum Fight: Aero 2299.
Star-Coat
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Ranked #8 for Neural Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Neural Defense.
Star-Coat is a third person shooter where you dive into procedurally generated maps to fight corrupted enemies and the bosses that command them. Outfit your pilot and your COAT, a fearsome walker, with a variety of weapons and armor to help you defeat evil in the universe.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Neural Defense.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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 Neural Defense.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Neural Defense.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Neural Defense.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Neural Defense.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Neural Defense.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Neural Defense.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Neural Defense.
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Frequently asked about Neural Defense
- What games are most similar to Neural Defense?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Neural Defense are Blinding Light, To Save A Planet, Asterism: Apex of War.
- Who developed Neural Defense?
- Neural Defense was developed by Synapse Game Studios.
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