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Games like Chronicle of Heroes

If Chronicle of Heroes is your kind of game, the closest matches are A Dungeon Is You, Dungeon Keeper: Labyrinth Legacy and Giantfall — 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 Chronicle of Heroes: Build, Quest, Defend! Build a city and recruit heroes to quest for power and glory, and to defend against ever increasing waves of darkness. Can you grow mighty enough to stand against the coming storm?

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Chronicle of Heroes — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Chronicle of Heroes 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. A Dungeon Is You

    WHY THIS

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

    Tower defense X Incremental idle! Design your own dungeon (maze). Summon and place different defenders against hundreds of personally designed waves. Explore multiple systems, including an arpg like item system with every system improving each other. No resets or prestige! Continuous combat!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  2. Dungeon Keeper: Labyrinth Legacy

    WHY THIS

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

    Dungeon Keeper: Labyrinth Legacy is a dynamic tower defense. Develop your dungeon and create monsters to guard your territory against adventurers.

    2024StrategyIndieRPG0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Giantfall

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Chronicle of Heroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chronicle of Heroes.

    Build your medieval kingdom. Raise an army. Defend against towering Giants and monstrous creatures as they lay siege to everything you've built

    2026ActionStrategyIndie10.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Isle of Titans

    WHY THIS

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

    Isle of Titans is an idle tower defense game where you defend a small kingdom against giant invaders. Shape your build with long-term progression between runs, and adapt on the fly during each run to hold back endless waves of Titans.

    2026StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  5. Little Crimson Heroes

    WHY THIS

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

    Little Crimson Heroes is a cute 3D tower defense game. Command young fighters of the Red Star Republic, build defenses, deploy machine guns, cannons, mines, and troops, then take direct control to stop the White Moon Federation’s invasion. Hold the line!

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  6. The Citadel Must Hold

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Chronicle of Heroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chronicle of Heroes.

    Build a fortress, command your army, and survive escalating Monster Tides in a fantasy base-building RTS. Explore the wilderness with your hero, claim Places of Power, and shape every run through powerful Oaths and Decrees.

    StrategySteam ↗
  7. Endless Escalation

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Chronicle of Heroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chronicle of Heroes.

    A strategy-driven incremental where choices actually matter. Upgrade costs scale together, forcing meaningful trade-offs instead of blindly upgrading everything. Build defenses, specialize your army, and adapt to overcome ever-evolving enemy forces.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  8. Endustry

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Chronicle of Heroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Chronicle of Heroes.

    Endustry is a game about building, exploring and surviving. Build machines and conveyor belts to collect resources. Try to survive with or without enemy waves depending on which game mode you play.

    2022StrategyFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Chronicle of Heroes.

    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 ↗
  2. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Chronicle of Heroes.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeSteam ↗
  3. Tails Noir: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Chronicle of Heroes.

    Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chronicle of Heroes.

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  5. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chronicle of Heroes.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Chronicle of Heroes.

    Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chronicle of Heroes.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Last Sovereign

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chronicle of Heroes.

    Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Chronicle of Heroes

What games are most similar to Chronicle of Heroes?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chronicle of Heroes are A Dungeon Is You, Dungeon Keeper: Labyrinth Legacy, Giantfall.
Who developed Chronicle of Heroes?
Chronicle of Heroes was developed by spel.exe.

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 Chronicle of Heroes.

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