Games like Stelvyr: Colony Defense
If Stelvyr: Colony Defense is your kind of game, the closest matches are Exone Rift, TechGuardian: Territory Defense and Stronghold: Definitive Edition — 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 Stelvyr: Colony Defense: Build and defend a space colony where every unit of power and every crew assignment matters. Expand production, research new technologies, shape the battlefield with walls and weapons, and adapt your strategy against alien swarms across nine campaign operations.
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Exone Rift
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Top pick for Stelvyr: Colony Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stelvyr: Colony Defense.
Take direct control of your hero on a hostile planet. Build your base, gather resources, expand your territory your way, and survive against the planet’s deadly wildlife.
TechGuardian: Territory Defense
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Second-strongest match for Stelvyr: Colony Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stelvyr: Colony Defense.
This is a sci-fi strategy game featuring a Defense Mode focused on tower defense and an Attack Mode focused on combat. The game includes over 30 different buildings and units, all of which can be upgraded through entry editing to enhance their performance and firepower.
Stronghold: Definitive Edition
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Third-strongest match for Stelvyr: Colony Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stelvyr: Colony Defense.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Here Comes The Swarm
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Ranked #4 for Stelvyr: Colony Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stelvyr: Colony Defense.
Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
Calyx
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Ranked #5 for Stelvyr: Colony Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Stelvyr: Colony Defense.
A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?
CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense
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Ranked #6 for Stelvyr: Colony Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stelvyr: Colony Defense.
The replicator robots are back! It's 2528. The machines are increasingly infecting the planets with genetically modified monsters. Challenge them and try to stop the onslaught. Upgrade buildings and heroes, mine resources, discover technology and fight to save humanity!
Cliff Empire
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Ranked #7 for Stelvyr: Colony Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stelvyr: Colony Defense.
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Stronghold HD (2012)
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Ranked #8 for Stelvyr: Colony Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stelvyr: Colony Defense.
The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Stelvyr: Colony Defense.
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Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stelvyr: Colony Defense.
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.
The Lab
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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Stelvyr: Colony Defense.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stelvyr: Colony Defense.
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Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stelvyr: Colony Defense.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stelvyr: Colony Defense.
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Frequently asked about Stelvyr: Colony Defense
- What games are most similar to Stelvyr: Colony Defense?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Stelvyr: Colony Defense are Exone Rift, TechGuardian: Territory Defense, Stronghold: Definitive Edition.
- Who developed Stelvyr: Colony Defense?
- Stelvyr: Colony Defense was developed by CannyEdge Interactive.
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