Games like Defeat the Boss
If Defeat the Boss is your kind of game, the closest matches are Orbsmith, Chill Wizard and Total Incremental Battle — 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 Defeat the Boss: Defeat the Boss is an incremental game about raising an army to fight back the abominations invading your lands. Recruit and upgrade soldiers, rally powerful lords, and watch your tiny force grow into an unstoppable horde. Defeat the bosses, and eventually take the fight to their realm.
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Steam players who put hours into Defeat the Boss 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.
Orbsmith
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Top pick for Defeat the Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defeat the Boss.
Your weapons fight. You forge the legend. Orbsmith is an idle auto-battler where you gamble magic orbs to craft god-roll gear, chase impossible rolls, and let your build do the killing. One more orb. One more run. One more legend.
Chill Wizard
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Second-strongest match for Defeat the Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defeat the Boss.
A chill incremental game with tower defense vibes where enemies can't harm you! You're a powerful wizard on an epic quest to party! Defeat hordes of joy killers for resources (Moonshine, Tobacco, and more!), construct buildings, call up to 6 friends. Drink A LOT of cocktails to upgrade your skills!
Total Incremental Battle
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Third-strongest match for Defeat the Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Defeat the Boss.
Start with a single soldier, end up with a massive army. Strategize and command your units, or let them grind on their own. Progress through many unique progression systems and conquer all the stages.
My Army Getting Stronger
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Ranked #4 for Defeat the Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defeat the Boss.
A short relaxing incremental auto-battler where you grow an unstoppable war machine and grind your way forward through enemy territory. No stress, no micromanagement — just growth, upgrades, and glorious mass battles.
Master Healer Kale with useless party
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Ranked #5 for Defeat the Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defeat the Boss.
A short incremental game where you play as a Healer in a party. Your main job is to keep your party alive. Upgrade 200+ skills in a skill tree, from healing to party damage. Designed to be completed in around 4 hours.
Exoset
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Ranked #6 for Defeat the Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defeat the Boss.
An inventory-management airship-building auto-battler. Design your battlecruiser, pack its hull with powerful weapons, and arrange support systems to create synergies that multiply its firepower from hundreds to millions, then watch it battle ever-escalating threats.
CROAKDOWN
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Ranked #7 for Defeat the Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Defeat the Boss.
You're done kissing frogs. Now you fight them off. In this incremental tower defense, gather resources, upgrade your skills and plant your defenses to hold back a frog invasion. Beat each boss and it transforms into your next ally. Into what? You're not ready. Collect them all!
The Infinite Grimoire
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Ranked #8 for Defeat the Boss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defeat the Boss.
Build your magical academy, produce arcane tomes, merge them into stronger forms, train students, and expand your influence across the world. An idle management game where your spellcraft grows even while you're away.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Defeat the Boss.
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?
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 and Casual with Defeat the Boss.
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 Indie with Defeat the Boss.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Defeat the Boss.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Defeat the Boss.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Defeat the Boss.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Defeat the Boss.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Defeat the Boss.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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Frequently asked about Defeat the Boss
- What games are most similar to Defeat the Boss?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Defeat the Boss are Orbsmith, Chill Wizard, Total Incremental Battle.
- Who developed Defeat the Boss?
- Defeat the Boss was developed by Games in Wires.
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