Games like 72 Seconds
If 72 Seconds is your kind of game, the closest matches are Darklight Breach, ZeroSpace and Rift Protocol — 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 72 Seconds: 72 Seconds is a fast-paced isometric action RTS where tactical squad micro meets ARPG progression. Command specialized units, build defenses, upgrade skill trees, and battle hostile alien threats. Adapt to randomized enemy affixes and survive high-stakes campaign permadeath.
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Darklight Breach
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Top pick for 72 Seconds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with 72 Seconds.
FTL meets XCOM in a real-time tactical roguelite about breaching alien ships. Flank through rooms, disable systems, outmaneuver defenders, and extract with high-value loot. Fence your haul to power up and break a mysterious time loop.
ZeroSpace
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Second-strongest match for 72 Seconds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with 72 Seconds.
ZeroSpace is a hybrid sci-fi RTS / RPG game that allows you to play as the commander of The Protectorate, a galactic force dedicated to securing humanity’s place in the galaxy. The Orion sector is locked in a vicious power struggle between many alien factions, ready to fight to the death.
Rift Protocol
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Third-strongest match for 72 Seconds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with 72 Seconds.
A tense, real-time squad tactics roguelike inspired by Aliens: Dark Descent. Command up to three soldiers through a procedurally generated facility full of monsters. Plan attacks, slow time for tactical skills, and scavenge to survive. One bad call and your squad is gone for good.
Space Alliance: Frontier
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Ranked #4 for 72 Seconds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with 72 Seconds.
Get ready to protect the entire solar system from an unprecedented threat - the D'Ahari, a race of insect-like aliens. Control an entire fleet of spaceships, trade with other races of an Alliance, and develop your own space station.
Little Kingdom RTS
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Ranked #5 for 72 Seconds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with 72 Seconds.
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.
Clankerfront
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Ranked #6 for 72 Seconds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with 72 Seconds.
Clankerfront is a classic isometric RTS where AI research went too far and awakened the world’s home appliances against humanity. Build bases, command armies, fight solo or co-op, and defend the front from the clankers.
Ablight
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Ranked #7 for 72 Seconds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with 72 Seconds.
Ablight is a classic real-time strategy game set in an alternate universe where diesel, cyberpunk and medieval aesthetics meet. Join the rebellion against the zealotic Inquisition, who have been mankinds scourge for hundreds of years and fight a war for survival. Freedom is within reach!
StrategySteam ↗Knights vs Aliens
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Ranked #8 for 72 Seconds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with 72 Seconds.
Command knights, aliens, and other historically dubious nations in a free real-time tower conquest game rebuilt from a 2009 iPad original. Grow armies, capture towers, and outmaneuver adaptive AI through 30 campaign levels.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with 72 Seconds.
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.
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 72 Seconds.
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!
South Scrimshaw, Part One
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 72 Seconds.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
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 72 Seconds.
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.
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 and RPG with 72 Seconds.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
Limbus Company
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.
Supermarket Together
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 72 Seconds.
The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!
Fallout Shelter
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with 72 Seconds.
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
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Frequently asked about 72 Seconds
- What games are most similar to 72 Seconds?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside 72 Seconds are Darklight Breach, ZeroSpace, Rift Protocol.
- Who developed 72 Seconds?
- 72 Seconds was developed by Mechanical Sympathy Games.
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 72 Seconds.
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