Games like GRIDMINE
If GRIDMINE is your kind of game, the closest matches are MAR: Millions Are Rising, Sir, We Have an Orc Problem and Spincremental — 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 GRIDMINE: GRIDMINE is a retro tower defense built around incremental progression. Survive for as long as possible, then return to your skill tree to spend extracted resources on tower-based upgrades and abilities.
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MAR: Millions Are Rising
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Top pick for GRIDMINE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with GRIDMINE.
Millions of monsters are escaping the hole. Stop them with a unique arsenal of towers, nukes, and deep upgrades in this incremental tower defense game.
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for GRIDMINE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with GRIDMINE.
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem is an incremental-style tower defense game where you face an overwhelming number of orcs. Greet them with even more bullets, bombs and lasers!
Spincremental
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for GRIDMINE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with GRIDMINE.
Pull the lever, watch the reels, collect the symbols. Buy slot machines, unlock cursors, magnets, and cards that play for you, then upgrade everything through a deep skill tree. A cozy pixel-art incremental about turning one wooden slot into an automated jackpot empire.
Emojis vs Zombies
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Ranked #4 for GRIDMINE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with GRIDMINE.
Emojis vs Zombies is an Idle Desktop Companion Zombie Defense Game! Open packs, Collect Emoji Defenders, Upgrade your squad or base and survive endless waves even while you're AFK or working!
Planetfall: Endless Wave
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Ranked #5 for GRIDMINE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with GRIDMINE.
Planetfall: Endless Wave is an idle incremental base-defence game with a classic RTS look. Survive endless waves of alien invaders by upgrading turrets, fortifications, and troops as the battlefield grows more hostile with every wave.
Mechs V Kaijus 2
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Ranked #6 for GRIDMINE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with GRIDMINE.
Mechs V Kaijus 2 is an Hybrid Tower/Base defense, with army vs army (tug of war style) tactics. From the cockpit of a mech, to build a huge base with Reactors, Mines and all type of tower army factories and super weapons.
BOYKISSER IS COMING
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Ranked #7 for GRIDMINE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with GRIDMINE.
A simple tower defense game where you need to protect your house from Boykissers
Decrypting Life
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Ranked #8 for GRIDMINE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with GRIDMINE.
Decrypting Life is a short, nostalgic incremental game where you restore corrupted files to uncover a story from the 2000s
Free alternatives
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with GRIDMINE.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with GRIDMINE.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with GRIDMINE.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with GRIDMINE.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with GRIDMINE.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with GRIDMINE.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with GRIDMINE.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about GRIDMINE
- What games are most similar to GRIDMINE?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside GRIDMINE are MAR: Millions Are Rising, Sir, We Have an Orc Problem, Spincremental.
- Who developed GRIDMINE?
- GRIDMINE was developed by Waterboat.
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 GRIDMINE.
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