Games like Protect the Orb
If Protect the Orb is your kind of game, the closest matches are Internet Survivor Survivors, Just Shoot and Shardstorm — 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 Protect the Orb: A survival defense roguelike. Keep the orb at the center of the map alive against a horde that wants it dead. Runs last 10–15 minutes. Stack 50+ upgrades into gloriously broken builds — burn, shatter, chain lightning, reshape the terrain. 40 enemy types, 10 maps, Ascension 1–5, endless mode.
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Steam players who put hours into Protect the Orb 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.
Internet Survivor Survivors
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Top pick for Protect the Orb fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Protect the Orb.
A top-down action roguelite Touhou fangame featuring Flan, who's... started streaming and has taken the internet by storm!? Collect likes and coins to power up your weapons! Your very viewer count becomes your life! Annihilate the constant hordes of enemies and survive, survive, SURVIVE!
Just Shoot
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Second-strongest match for Protect the Orb fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Protect the Orb.
Fight through hordes of enemies in this action roguelite, find random weapons and discover secret card combos to create devastating builds and survive the chaos.
Shardstorm
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Protect the Orb fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Protect the Orb.
After the Echo's fall, her shattered sins awoke once more. Shardstorm is a deep, replayable horde-survivor ARPG. Wield seven sentient Shards, battle towering Sin bosses, and break the game with infinite weapon scaling, skill trees, and legendary loot. Survive the storm. Shape your Wrath.
Last Knight Survival
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Ranked #4 for Protect the Orb fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Protect the Orb.
Fight against endless hordes of enemies in this action-roguelike, collect trophies, and prove that knightly honor still lives on! Upgrade your gear, master new skills, and carve your path through waves of demons and the undead. Survive in a world where death awaits behind every corner.
Ultrablight
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Ranked #5 for Protect the Orb fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Protect the Orb.
A dark fantasy survivors-like roguelite where you craft overpowered builds through backpack management, slaughter corrupted hordes, and push the Blight beyond its limits.
Machick 2
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Ranked #6 for Protect the Orb fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Protect the Orb.
A magical, chaotic roguelike-survivor. Craft insane wands, evolve and fuse powerful spells, equip crazy gear, and wield the power of divine relics. Get ready to wipe out hordes of hungry frogs and face mighty bosses in unique, unpredictable runs.
Fight To The Death
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Ranked #7 for Protect the Orb fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Protect the Orb.
Fight To The Death is a roguelite game where you enter an arena filled with hundreds or even thousands of monsters. Utilizing each character's unique skills, collecting powerful items, crafting your own playstyle, and striving to be the last one standing.
Megabonk
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Ranked #8 for Protect the Orb fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Protect the Orb.
Smash your way through endless waves of enemies and grow absurdly powerful! Grab loot, level up, unlock characters and upgrade to create unique and crazy builds as you fend off hordes of creatures!
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Protect the Orb.
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 Protect the Orb.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Protect the Orb.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Protect the Orb.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Protect the Orb.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Protect the Orb.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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 Protect the Orb.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Protect the Orb
- What games are most similar to Protect the Orb?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Protect the Orb are Internet Survivor Survivors, Just Shoot, Shardstorm.
- Who developed Protect the Orb?
- Protect the Orb was developed by Games Game Studio.
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 Protect the Orb.
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