Games like Band of Defenders
If Band of Defenders is your kind of game, the closest matches are Out of Ammo, Stronghold: Warlords and The Last Camp — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, immersive and stressful. 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 Band of Defenders: A Co-Op FPS game with base building in a post-apocalyptic world. Craft weapons, build barricades and automated turrets, unlock new gear and items for visual customization and kill all savages and mutants trying to destroy the remnants of human civilization.
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Out of Ammo
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense and an immersive mood with Band of Defenders.
Top pick for Band of Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Out of Ammo is an intense VR Tower Defense / FPS hybrid strategy game that will have you constructing defenses, calling in artillery, issuing orders, and taking direct control of your soldiers in order to survive a relentless enemy onslaught.
Stronghold: Warlords
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Band of Defenders.
Second-strongest match for Band of Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
The Last Camp
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Band of Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
This is a top-down survival-building game blending farming, tower defense, and micromanagement, requiring you to fend off zombie hordes, grow crops, and strategically deploy traps to defend your homestead.
Treefender
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Band of Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Relive your childhood in Treefender, a VR-exclusive 4 player online co-op base-building game where you build your own treefort and defend it against a spacesquid invasion!
Attack on Toys
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Band of Defenders.
Ranked #5 for Band of Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Relive Your Childhood Toys comes to life! Build your Army Toys, make battle scenario, watch the Toys battling each other, and customize your play with Attack on Toys Toy Box. Command your Army Toys to fight againts another toys strategically and keep them alive during battle!
Sandbox Apocalypse
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Band of Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Sandbox Apocalypse is a 3rd person view, open world post-apocalyptic survial game where you are responsible for your own fate. Survive in a world inhabited by zombies, gather loot, build your base and explore the world.
Bunker Defense
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Band of Defenders.
Ranked #7 for Band of Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Bunker Defense is a tower defense game for 1-4 players. Waves of enemies attack your base, and you must defend it by building different kinds of defenses.
Battlefall: State of Conflict
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Band of Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Engage in a post-apocalyptic RTS showdown between three factions in Battlefall: State of Conflict.
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Orcs Must Die!
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Band of Defenders.
Reviewers of Band of Defenders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Slice them, burn them, skewer them, and launch them - no matter how you get it done, orcs must die in this fantasy action-strategy game from Robot Entertainment.
Killing Floor
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Band of Defenders.
Reviewers of Band of Defenders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
6-player co-op survival horror at its finest! Free updates, free special events and a ridiculous amount of fun!
Sanctum
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense and a challenging mood with Band of Defenders.
Reviewers of Band of Defenders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
You think Tower Defense games are all about building? You thought wrong. Sanctum is not your average Tower Defense title. When the havoc starts, you get to join the fray! As one of the world’s first First Person Shooter - Tower Defense games, Sanctum has taken the best of both worlds to deliver an epic, one-of-a-kind experience.
Orcs Must Die! Unchained
WHY THIS
Shares trap placement with Band of Defenders.
Reviewers of Band of Defenders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Orcs Must Die! Unchained takes the award-winning Orcs Must Die! action tower defense game to a whole new level with team-based gameplay! Bust skulls with your best pals in PvE co-op Survival, or put your teamwork to the real test in Sabotage Mode!
Deep Rock Galactic
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Band of Defenders.
Reviewers of Band of Defenders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!
Monster Hunter: World
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Band of Defenders.
Reviewers of Band of Defenders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Welcome to a new world! In Monster Hunter: World, the latest installment in the series, you can enjoy the ultimate hunting experience, using everything at your disposal to hunt monsters in a new world teeming with surprises and excitement.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Band of Defenders at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Band of Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Band of Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Band of Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Band of Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Band of Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Band of Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Band of Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Half-Life: Opposing Force
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Band of Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Return to the Black Mesa Research Facility as one of the military specialists assigned to eliminate Gordon Freeman. Experience an entirely new episode of single player action. Meet fierce alien opponents, and experiment with new weaponry. Named 'Game of the Year' by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
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 Lab
WHY THIS
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!
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
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.
Counter-Strike 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.
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More from Alda Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Alda Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Killing Room
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Band of Defenders.
Another title from Alda Games, the studio behind Band of Defenders. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Rogue-like FPS with strong RPG elements set in a 22nd century reality-show parody. Win a fortune or die, but never disappoint your audience. And audience is virtual or real with revolutionary but optional features for streamers and their fans.
Defend Your Life: TD
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Band of Defenders.
Another title from Alda Games, the studio behind Band of Defenders. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Defend Your Life! Is tower defense set in human body where players are fighting against villain hordes of viruses and bacteria. Levels and units correspond to reality of human anatomy.
Walking Zombie: Shooter
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Band of Defenders.
Another title from Alda Games, the studio behind Band of Defenders. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
The Walking Zombie is a stationary FPS with an online co-op mode in a world full of zombies to kill. Buy and upgrade your weapons, kill all enemies in 200 levels and destroy mighty boss monsters before they eat you alive!
Build Wars
WHY THIS
Another title from Alda Games, the studio behind Band of Defenders.
Use and boost your creativity in these non-violent battles of block-building magic. Show that you are the best and gain recognition from fellow builders in this harsh but ultimately fair player vs. player online building game. Win, unlock new blocks and with it your potential.
Walking Zombie 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Band of Defenders.
Another title from Alda Games, the studio behind Band of Defenders. Shares Action with Band of Defenders.
Zombie singleplayer shooter in modern polygon graphics with rich RPG elements.
Frequently asked about Band of Defenders
- Does Band of Defenders work on Steam Deck?
- Band of Defenders is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Band of Defenders cost?
- Band of Defenders is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Band of Defenders have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Band of Defenders supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Band of Defenders?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Band of Defenders are Out of Ammo, Stronghold: Warlords, The Last Camp.
- Who developed Band of Defenders?
- Band of Defenders was developed by Alda Games.
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