Games like Hold the Dawn
If Hold the Dawn is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kingdom III: Rising Realms, Remnant Afterglow Tower Defense and Virtualord, The Virtual Conqueror — 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 Hold the Dawn: Build by day. Survive the horde by night. Hold the Dawn is a 3D wasteland tower defense with unique auto-fighting heroes, tactical towers, zombie waves, and co-op over Steam, LAN, or local play.
Players who liked Hold the Dawn also play
Steam players who put hours into Hold the Dawn 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.
Kingdom III: Rising Realms
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Top pick for Hold the Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hold the Dawn.
Protect your crown! Kingdom returns in an all-new micro-strategy and tower defense game set in a shattered realm. Embark on an atmospheric adventure across lands of legend to build a lasting legacy and challenge the empowered Greed threat.
Remnant Afterglow Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Hold the Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hold the Dawn.
This is a creative and challenging real-time strategy tower defense game where players need to constantly expand, build complex battle lines on the map, and fight against groups of enemies. The game has unique rules and beautiful pixel style, with each level filled with tense and exciting battles.
Virtualord, The Virtual Conqueror
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Hold the Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hold the Dawn.
Set up your base, gather resources and build a defensive perimeter with walls and towers to protect your outpost from waves of enemies. Research new tech, gather your forces and send your units and mini-units to annihilate the enemy.
Lichworks
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Ranked #4 for Hold the Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hold the Dawn.
You are a necromancer, build your undead empire. A necromancer automation game where your army is your logistics network. Route mindless minions via signposts, automate production chains, equip your soldiers and conquer the Human Empire.
Star Pulse:The War
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Ranked #5 for Hold the Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hold the Dawn.
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.
Mandate Order
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Ranked #6 for Hold the Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hold the Dawn.
Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
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Ranked #7 for Hold the Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hold the Dawn.
Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.
Commandos: Origins
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Ranked #8 for Hold the Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hold the Dawn.
ALARM! You have been selected for a mission which will shape the fate of the entire world. Witness the very beginning of the legendary elite WWII force in Commandos: Origins. The long-awaited sequel to the Commandos series brings you right back to the foundation of the real-time tactics genre.
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.
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.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Hold the Dawn.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Hold the Dawn.
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!
Electoral Carnage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Hold the Dawn.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
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More from YogurtGames
Other recommendable Steam games by YogurtGames, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Guardian Grids
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Another title from YogurtGames, the studio behind Hold the Dawn. Shares Strategy with Hold the Dawn.
A simple and fun tower defense game! Combining light card elements with the fun of randomness.
Stellar Infestation
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Another title from YogurtGames, the studio behind Hold the Dawn. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hold the Dawn.
Dig minerals, manufacture ammunition, and build defense towers to fend off swarms of insects. A tower defense game with light production line elements.
Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids
WHY THIS
Another title from YogurtGames, the studio behind Hold the Dawn. Shares Strategy with Hold the Dawn.
Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids is a medieval fantasy blend of tower defense and roguelike progression. Build defenses on a grid, manage resources, and survive ever-evolving enemies.
Frequently asked about Hold the Dawn
- Does Hold the Dawn have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Hold the Dawn supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Hold the Dawn?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hold the Dawn are Kingdom III: Rising Realms, Remnant Afterglow Tower Defense, Virtualord, The Virtual Conqueror.
- Who developed Hold the Dawn?
- Hold the Dawn was developed by YogurtGames.
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 Hold the Dawn.
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