Games like Cult Defense
If Cult Defense is your kind of game, the closest matches are Little Kingdom RTS, Kingdoms in Arms and Star Pulse:The War — 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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Little Kingdom RTS
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Top pick for Cult Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cult Defense.
Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.
Kingdoms in Arms
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Second-strongest match for Cult Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cult Defense.
Kingdoms in Arms is a strategy game where you build and manage your kingdom. Build cities, outposts and military camps to conquer the whole island. Besiege your enemies castles and bring down their walls with your siege engines like catapults and trebuchets. Control your armies in real time.
Star Pulse:The War
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Third-strongest match for Cult Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cult Defense.
Star Pulse: The War is an independent real-time strategy game that merges science fiction with fantasy. Players will command a sci-fi faction, harnessing the power of star pulse to gather resources, construct buildings, train troops, and nurture heroes in the fight against invading magical forces.
Failover
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Ranked #4 for Cult Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cult Defense.
Take command of civil air defense under constant threat. Build radar networks, manage power and resources, and decide when to sound the sirens. Every choice has consequences. Hold your cities together as escalation turns survival into strategy.
Drums & Steel
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Ranked #5 for Cult Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cult Defense.
Command formations of 18th-century armies in real-time strategic combat. Maneuver infantry, cavalry, and artillery through skirmishes and campaigns. May the best army win.
Roots Of Ruin
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Ranked #6 for Cult Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cult Defense.
Build your defenses, fight beside them, and reclaim your kingdom from the corruption. Expand your land, command powerful towers, and take direct control of one of four unique heroes to defend against relentless enemy waves and devastating bosses.
D for Defender
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Ranked #7 for Cult Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cult Defense.
A Tower Defense with no respite, no waves, no end. Facing monsters that learn from your placements and adapt in real time to every one of your weaknesses, build and upgrade your defenses freely to create the perfect trap.
Castles & Castellans
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Ranked #8 for Cult Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cult Defense.
Castles & Castellans is a hybrid of real-time strategy and third-person action. Rule from the castle-building RTS view - construct, manage, and fortify against looming threats. Then step into the castellan’s boots in TPP, fighting side by side with your soldiers atop the very walls you built.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cult Defense.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cult 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.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cult Defense.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cult Defense.
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!
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cult Defense.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Cult Defense.
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.
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cult Defense.
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.
DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Cult Defense.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
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Frequently asked about Cult Defense
- What games are most similar to Cult Defense?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cult Defense are Little Kingdom RTS, Kingdoms in Arms, Star Pulse:The War.
- Who developed Cult Defense?
- Cult Defense was developed by Paulo Schmidt.
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 Cult Defense.
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