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Games like Catnip Wars

If Catnip Wars is your kind of game, the closest matches are Defender Of Falyndor, Hex Tower Boogie and Jarred Defense — 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.

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About Catnip Wars: Catnip Wars is a 1–4 player co-op tower defense. Play as scrappy Catbots defending your catnip farm from monster waves — build and power turrets, raise walls, harvest resources, man the BFG, revive fallen friends, and climb the tech tree. Play solo or online with friends. Achievements/Leaderboard

2026StrategyIndieCasual9.99 USDWindowsby Ender Knight
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Players who liked Catnip Wars also play

Steam players who put hours into Catnip Wars 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.

  1. Defender Of Falyndor

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Catnip Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Catnip Wars.

    Defender OF Falyndor is a First-Person Tower Defense game in Virtual Reality! Take control of your character, towers, and much more to protect Falyndor from waves of invasions to become the ultimate Defender of Falyndor!

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  2. Hex Tower Boogie

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Catnip Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Catnip Wars.

    A tower defense where towers don't make their own bullets. You build the factory that feeds them: harvest ammo, route it through belts, and stack effects until a single shot homes, pierces, splashes AND one-shots the whole screen.

    2026StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  3. Jarred Defense

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Catnip Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Catnip Wars.

    A difficult maze-building tower defense about Yuki, a cat trapped in a teleporting jar. Protect it from robots and endure its unhelpful comments. Build your own paths, adapt as levels change, unlock powerful items, and uncover Yuki’s story. A love letter to Warcraft III custom maps.

    2026StrategySteam ↗
  4. Ages TD

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Catnip Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Catnip Wars.

    Spear towers become balistas, balistas become railguns. Defend one world through three ages as it grows around your towers - and find out why the horde keeps returning. A story-driven tower defense about a world worth 800 years of war, and the Reaper who farms it.

    StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  5. Hexfall: Planetary Defense

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Catnip Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Catnip Wars.

    Hexfall is a planet-scale tower defense game where over 100,000 enemies attack at once. Mine the crust, wire the power and arm a hex world against an armada that fills the sky long before it comes down.

    StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  6. Ceniza - Tower Defense

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Catnip Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Catnip Wars.

    Build the route. Break the machines. Recover your stolen energy cores. CENIZA is a 3D tower defense set in an industrial wasteland, with 100 waves, seven upgradeable tower families and colossal robotic bosses. Reshape the battlefield, then make it your own with mods.

    2026StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  7. Rise of Mutant Swarms

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Catnip Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Catnip Wars.

    Rise of Mutant Swarms is a strategy survival tower-defense game where you defend the base against waves of evolving mutant enemies. Place and upgrade turrets, adapt to enemy abilities, and make critical decisions as the pressure rises with every wave.

    2026Strategy7.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Raging Titan

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Catnip Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Catnip Wars.

    Build your towers, plan your efforts, watch out for changing paths and strike back against the alien invaders in this challenging tower defense game!

    2016StrategyIndieCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Catnip Wars at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Catnip Wars on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Catnip Wars.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Catnip Wars on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Catnip Wars.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. How to Fish

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Catnip Wars on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Catnip Wars.

    A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.

    2026ActionIndieSimulation4.95 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Catnip Wars on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Catnip Wars.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Catnip Wars on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Catnip Wars.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Catnip Wars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Catnip Wars.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Catnip Wars on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Catnip Wars.

    Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Catnip Wars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Catnip Wars.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Catnip Wars.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Catnip Wars.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Catnip Wars.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Catnip Wars.

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Catnip Wars.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Catnip Wars.

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Catnip Wars

How much does Catnip Wars cost?
Catnip Wars is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Catnip Wars have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Catnip Wars supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Catnip Wars?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Catnip Wars are Defender Of Falyndor, Hex Tower Boogie, Jarred Defense.
Who developed Catnip Wars?
Catnip Wars was developed by Ender Knight and published by M.O.T.I.S..

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 Catnip Wars.

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