Games like Defend the Dawn
If Defend the Dawn is your kind of game, the closest matches are Blood Waves, Zombie Army Trilogy and Daymare: 1998 — 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 Defend the Dawn: Defend the Dawn is a single-player third-person roguelite where you stand alone against relentless waves. Fight, build defenses, and adapt to randomized upgrades as you hold the line through a long night. Every run changes your strategy, but only careful planning will carry you to dawn.
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Blood Waves
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Top pick for Defend the Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Defend the Dawn.
Hardcore and bloody shooter where you will have to repel the attacks of the living dead using the destroying traps, defensive barricades and also weapon of close and long-range combat.
Zombie Army Trilogy
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Second-strongest match for Defend the Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Defend the Dawn.
The cult horror shooter series comes to an apocalyptic conclusion with an epic new third chapter, a heart-pumping new horde mode, and remastered editions of the best-selling Nazi Zombie Army 1 & 2.
Daymare: 1998
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Third-strongest match for Defend the Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Defend the Dawn.
DAYMARE: 1998 is a third-person survival horror game that recreates the mood of iconic titles from the '90s, with a fresh storyline. An incident that turns a small town into a deadly zone, three characters to play with and little time to find the truth, before its mutated citizens abruptly end your mission.
Town Of The Dead Life 死寂之城
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Ranked #4 for Defend the Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defend the Dawn.
《Town Of The Dead Life》 is an independent game with the background of eschatology. Players will play the role of one of the few surviving humans in the end of the world, surviving in difficult conditions and trying to change the fate of the world.
Zombie Army 4: Dead War
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Ranked #5 for Defend the Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Defend the Dawn.
Hitler’s hordes are back for more in this spine-chilling shooter from the makers of Sniper Elite 4! Abominable occult enemies, epic weapons and a harrowing new campaign for 1-4 players await in 1940s Europe, as you fight to save humankind from undead Armageddon!
Frontline Zed
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Ranked #6 for Defend the Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Defend the Dawn.
Defend your fortified barricade by night, collect weapons and conduct repairs by day. Survive long enough to make your way through America and towards rescue.
Cepheus Protocol
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Ranked #7 for Defend the Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Defend the Dawn.
Cepheus Protocol is an Open World RTS Military Survival Game. Play as the CERC hunting Patient 0, maintain Quarantine camps, fight dangerous mutations & Rogue Civilian Combatants . There’s nobody else coming, it’s up to you now.
10 Miles To Safety
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Ranked #8 for Defend the Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Defend the Dawn.
The Apocalypse has arrived and your goal is simple: Make it 10 miles to safety through a limitless procedurally-generated world overrun with The Infected and packed with the tools and weapons to fight them.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Defend the Dawn.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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 Defend the Dawn.
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 Defend the Dawn.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Defend the Dawn.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Defend the Dawn.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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 Defend the Dawn.
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.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Defend the Dawn.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Defend the Dawn.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Frequently asked about Defend the Dawn
- What games are most similar to Defend the Dawn?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Defend the Dawn are Blood Waves, Zombie Army Trilogy, Daymare: 1998.
- Who developed Defend the Dawn?
- Defend the Dawn was developed by GeeView Games.
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