Games like Neon Bastion
If Neon Bastion is your kind of game, the closest matches are Jarred Defense, Don't Mind the Robots and The Fall of Aether Station — 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 Neon Bastion: Build a neon fortress. Evolve 15 tower types, command powerful heroes and unleash spectacular combos across 20 battlefields. Outsmart armored armies and colossal bosses, from your first Story victory to the ultimate Apocalypse challenge.
Players who liked Neon Bastion also play
Steam players who put hours into Neon Bastion 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.
Jarred Defense
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Top pick for Neon Bastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Neon Bastion.
A difficult maze-building tower defense about Yuki, a cat trapped in a teleporting jar. Protect it from robots and endure its unhelpful comments. Build your own paths, adapt as levels change, unlock powerful items, and uncover Yuki’s story. A love letter to Warcraft III custom maps.
Don't Mind the Robots
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Second-strongest match for Neon Bastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Neon Bastion.
Build deadly mazes and outsmart a rogue AI in this strategic tower defense game. Adapt your defenses, use aiming parameters to your advantage, and activate powerful perks to survive increasingly complex waves of incoming robots.
The Fall of Aether Station
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Third-strongest match for Neon Bastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Neon Bastion.
Customize your Ships, Upgrade your fleet, and Command your way to victory in this ruthless rogue-lite tower defense/real time strategy hybrid. Take on an enemy that learns from your moves and adjusts its own path. Do you have what it takes to persevere?
MarZ: Tactical Base Defense
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Ranked #4 for Neon Bastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Neon Bastion.
Build your defense base to fight back the undead hordes of Mars and secure the future of the red planet. MarZ is a game of strategy and tactical defense where you must carefully manage your crew and resources as you try to uncover the terrible secrets of the undead.
Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense
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Ranked #5 for Neon Bastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Neon Bastion.
Axon TD lets you expand the map boundaries themselves. A huge arsenal of towers and a wide variety of enemies clash in a battlefield that grows to your whims. Engage in single, cooperative, and roguelite gameplay.
Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
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Ranked #6 for Neon Bastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Neon Bastion.
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®
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Ranked #7 for Neon Bastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Neon Bastion.
In Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, you are the leader of a civilization embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for the survival of your entire race against relentless foes.
Mars or Die!
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Ranked #8 for Neon Bastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Neon Bastion.
Control two characters simultaneously! Survive, gather, collect upgrades, fight all sizes of one-eyed Martians, build defensible outposts and conquer Mars, in this glorious mix between roguelite and tower defense.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Neon Bastion.
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 with Neon Bastion.
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 Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Neon Bastion.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Neon Bastion.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Neon Bastion.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Neon Bastion.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Frequently asked about Neon Bastion
- What games are most similar to Neon Bastion?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Neon Bastion are Jarred Defense, Don't Mind the Robots, The Fall of Aether Station.
- Who developed Neon Bastion?
- Neon Bastion was developed by Kasperzack Games.
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