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Games like Hexfall: Planetary Defense

If Hexfall: Planetary Defense is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hex Tower Boogie, Space Cheese Defenders and Astro Company — 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 Hexfall: Planetary Defense: 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.

StrategyIndieWindows · Linuxby Schatzl IT Solutions GmbH
Hexfall: Planetary Defense — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Hexfall: Planetary Defense 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. Hex Tower Boogie

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Hexfall: Planetary Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hexfall: Planetary Defense.

    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 ↗
  2. Space Cheese Defenders

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Hexfall: Planetary Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hexfall: Planetary Defense.

    A tower defense game with RTS elements about gathering cheese in space, where mobile carriers are able to deploy smaller spacecraft. Collect cheese to buy and upgrade spaceships and use each type to customize your playstyle and defend your base!

    2024StrategyIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Astro Company

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Hexfall: Planetary Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hexfall: Planetary Defense.

    Build the path. Defend the Core. Combine towers, cards, and artifacts into broken synergies in an endless tower defense roguelike.

    2026StrategyEarly AccessSteam ↗
  4. Stargazer's Terraforming Estate Co.

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Hexfall: Planetary Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hexfall: Planetary Defense.

    Stargazer's Terraforming Estate Company terraforms & sells planets for years. Be a respectful member of the family and monopolize the galaxy by building dyson spheres in the name of the company.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Astro Protocol

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Hexfall: Planetary Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hexfall: Planetary Defense.

    Astro Protocol is a high-stakes, turn-based 4X space strategy game distilled into intense one-hour matches. Six factions, randomized maps, tech trees, and anomalies ensure every run is unique. Victories are earned against challenging opponents that play to win.

    2026Strategy8.39 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Hold The Roost

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Hexfall: Planetary Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hexfall: Planetary Defense.

    Build by day. Defend by night. Command a flock of chickens in a tactical tower-defense survival game where every bird has a job. Gather resources, hatch and recruit stronger chickens, customize weapons and targeting, and outsmart predators with tricks of their own.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  7. Null Keeper

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Hexfall: Planetary Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hexfall: Planetary Defense.

    Run an evil asteroid base in the void. Dig, claim, and build your lair, summon entities through Warp Rifts, and repel the Vanguard raids hammering your Void Core — while MALACHAR, your AI narrator, judges your every move.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  8. Starfort

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Hexfall: Planetary Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hexfall: Planetary Defense.

    Defend your empire in a sci-fi tower defense game. Build deadly combinations of railguns, lasers, gravity wells, drones, and cannons across three maps, 50 levels per map, and four difficulty modes.

    2026StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗

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  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hexfall: Planetary Defense.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hexfall: Planetary Defense.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hexfall: Planetary Defense.

    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 ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hexfall: Planetary Defense.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hexfall: Planetary 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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 ↗
  7. Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hexfall: Planetary Defense.

    USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.

    2025IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Control, I'm Not Coming Back

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hexfall: Planetary 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.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Hexfall: Planetary Defense

What games are most similar to Hexfall: Planetary Defense?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hexfall: Planetary Defense are Hex Tower Boogie, Space Cheese Defenders, Astro Company.
Who developed Hexfall: Planetary Defense?
Hexfall: Planetary Defense was developed by Schatzl IT Solutions GmbH.

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 Hexfall: Planetary Defense.

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