Games like Dungeon Defenders
If Dungeon Defenders is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dungeon Defenders II, Dungeon Defenders: Awakened and Battle of Heroes 3 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cooperative multiplayer shines, deep min maxing potential and hero specialization matters. 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 →Dungeon Defenders is a hybrid tower defense and action RPG that tasks players with building defensive installations during a preparation phase before combat erupts in the subsequent wave. Players select from four hero classes and specialize their abilities across a massive persistent game that reviewers note for its deep min-maxing potential and rewarding loot-driven progression. The cooperative multiplayer component is frequently highlighted by players as the standout feature, requiring coordination between tower placement and active combat roles. Originally released in 2011, the game maintains strong community support with a 93% positive rating from over 8,600 Steam reviews. The experience is challenging and time-intensive, appealing to players who enjoy strategic preparation alongside persistent character advancement. Priced at $2.99, the game does not currently support Steam Deck play.
About Dungeon Defenders: Create a hero from one of four classes to save Etheria in this 4-player coop Tower Defense Action-RPG. Includes Steam exclusive Portal gun & TF2 familiars!
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Dungeon Defenders II
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Shares a challenging mood with Dungeon Defenders.
Top pick for Dungeon Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders.
Dungeon Defenders II is a cooperative Action Tower Defense game packed with roleplaying elements like loot, leveling, and pets.
Dungeon Defenders: Awakened
WHY THIS
Shares loot driven progression and a challenging mood with Dungeon Defenders.
Second-strongest match for Dungeon Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders.
Dungeon Defenders: Awakened is co-op Tower Defense combined with epic Action RPG combat. You’re able to join forces with up to four players to take on a never-ending army of orcs, demons, and dragons! Are your defenses strong enough to save the world of Etheria?
Battle of Heroes 3
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Third-strongest match for Dungeon Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dungeon Defenders.
The hero acts as a mercenary who is sent to the border of the kingdom. Use combat and magic skills, explore the fantasy world, develop a hero and warriors, towers, aura, magic, weapons. Explore and create magical items. Grow a dragon or a cerberus.
Toaster Defense
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Ranked #4 for Dungeon Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders.
Smash and shoot down robots in this challenging fast-paced game that mixes tower defense and shoot 'em up platforming. Build lamps, fans, and meat tenderizers to aid in your defenses and find the deadliest combination. Do you have what it takes to defend the world's cutest toaster?!
Puropu Defense Squad
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Shares a challenging mood with Dungeon Defenders.
Ranked #5 for Dungeon Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders.
Defend your world as sentient Props in Puropu Defense Squad! Build, upgrade, and evolve your heroes to crush waves of filthy humans worldwide. Dive into a unique mix of third-person action and tower defense—solo or with friends—in an endlessly replayable co-op campaign!
The Riftbreaker
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Shares a challenging mood with Dungeon Defenders.
Ranked #6 for Dungeon Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Element TD 2 - Tower Defense
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Ranked #7 for Dungeon Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dungeon Defenders.
Element TD 2 sees you combine powerful elements to create unique towers. Prove your defenses against challenging foes, and compete or cooperate with others to determine who has mastered the elements.
Royal Revolt II
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Shares a challenging mood with Dungeon Defenders.
Ranked #8 for Dungeon Defenders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders.
Royal Revolt 2 is an asynchronous PvP Reverse Tower Defense game full of medieval magic and action-laden battles.Can you set up your defenses so other Kings and Queens can't crash your castle gates? We're throwing down the gauntlet. Will you pick it up?
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Orcs Must Die!
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Shares an epic mood with Dungeon Defenders.
Reviewers of Dungeon Defenders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon 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.
Orcs Must Die! 2
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Shares a challenging mood with Dungeon Defenders.
Reviewers of Dungeon Defenders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders.
You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.
Sanctum 2
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Shares a challenging mood with Dungeon Defenders.
Reviewers of Dungeon Defenders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders.
Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.
Save The World
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Reviewers of Dungeon Defenders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dungeon Defenders.
The story is a young man summoned to another world is suffered from the scourge of aggression by monsters,and save the world with the native heroes. Game mode is rogue,you only release your kill desire to kill the monsters all! Special Zhen Fa System,allow you active powerful Zhen Fa to bombing!
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POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under Dungeon Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon 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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under Dungeon Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dungeon Defenders.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~67% under Dungeon Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dungeon 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.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under Dungeon Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dungeon Defenders.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under Dungeon Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Defenders.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bejeweled® 3
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Priced ~67% under Dungeon Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dungeon Defenders.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~67% under Dungeon Defenders on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Defenders.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
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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 Dungeon Defenders.
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 Dungeon Defenders.
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?
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 Dungeon Defenders.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dungeon Defenders.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Dungeon 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.).
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Defenders.
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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!
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dungeon Defenders.
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Dungeon Defenders: Awakened
WHY THIS
Shares loot driven progression and a challenging mood with Dungeon Defenders.
Another title from Chromatic Games, the studio behind Dungeon Defenders. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders.
Dungeon Defenders: Awakened is co-op Tower Defense combined with epic Action RPG combat. You’re able to join forces with up to four players to take on a never-ending army of orcs, demons, and dragons! Are your defenses strong enough to save the world of Etheria?
Dungeon Defenders II
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dungeon Defenders.
Another title from Chromatic Games, the studio behind Dungeon Defenders. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders.
Dungeon Defenders II is a cooperative Action Tower Defense game packed with roleplaying elements like loot, leveling, and pets.
Dungeon Defenders: Going Rogue
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dungeon Defenders.
Another title from Chromatic Games, the studio behind Dungeon Defenders. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Defenders.
Combining Roguelite, Action RPG, and Tower Defense gameplay into a crazy free-for-all, where it’s you and up to three friends versus hordes of enemies. Select your hero, survive the waves of foes, unlock new weapons and runes, and take on the bosses that await you!
Frequently asked about Dungeon Defenders
- Does Dungeon Defenders work on Steam Deck?
- Dungeon Defenders is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Dungeon Defenders cost?
- Dungeon Defenders is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Dungeon Defenders have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Dungeon Defenders supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Dungeon Defenders?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dungeon Defenders are Dungeon Defenders II, Dungeon Defenders: Awakened, Battle of Heroes 3.
- Who developed Dungeon Defenders?
- Dungeon Defenders was developed by Chromatic Games.
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