Games like Transistor Defense
If Transistor Defense is your kind of game, the closest matches are Drop Order, Zero Bugs Given and City Defense Z — 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.
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Drop Order
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Top pick for Transistor Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Transistor Defense.
Drop Order is a dark sci-fi tactical tower defense where every turret placement shapes both your firepower and the enemy's route. Build synergistic defenses, create deadly mazes, and survive alien hordes with cards and hands-on drone combat.
Zero Bugs Given
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Transistor Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Transistor Defense.
Zero Bugs Given is a tower defense / roguelike game designed with the ambition of making every run different from the others. Every wave, a pair of bonus and malus will force you to adapt in the best way you can. Build your defense and try survive as long as you can!
City Defense Z
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Third-strongest match for Transistor Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Transistor Defense.
City Defense Z combines base-building and base defense in a roguelite progression loop. Build by day, defend by night, and face a growing zombie threat. Every defeat unlocks permanent upgrades, helping you rebuild smarter and push further each time. See how many days you can last.
Dungeon Crafter
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Ranked #4 for Transistor Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Transistor Defense.
Build a deadly dungeon, combine monsters, traps, effects, and special items, and stop the intruder before he reaches the end. A turn-based rogue-like strategy game where you are the Dungeon Master.
Tower Lab
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Ranked #5 for Transistor Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Transistor Defense.
Enemies have no health, push them off instead. Weaponize physics in this roguelite tower defense game. Draft a deck, chain towers into living contraptions, grow and shrink every projectile, and launch hordes of robots off the edge.
A Roguelike Tower Defense
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Ranked #6 for Transistor Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Transistor Defense.
Build a unique defense every run in this roguelike tower defense. Choose a hero, discover new towers, collect upgrade cards, and create powerful synergies to overcome increasingly difficult enemies and bosses.
城市塔防-City Tower Defence
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Ranked #7 for Transistor Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Transistor Defense.
Help defend Shanghai from an invasion of snowmen! Build and upgrade towers across a battlefield that changes every run, shape your strategy with powerful cards and between-wave rewards, and survive escalating waves and boss encounters in this roguelite tower defense.
Purification Front (Task Force Purge)
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Ranked #8 for Transistor Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Transistor Defense.
Purification Frontline is a post-apocalyptic roguelite bullet-hell action shooter. Build your squad, switch characters in battle, collect relics, and carve your way through branching tower runs with fast-paced combat and explosive firepower.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Transistor Defense at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Transistor Defense on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Transistor Defense.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Transistor Defense on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Transistor Defense.
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 Transistor Defense on Steam right now. Shares Action with Transistor Defense.
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.
How to Fish
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Priced ~50% under Transistor Defense on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Transistor Defense.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Transistor Defense on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Transistor Defense.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under Transistor Defense on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Transistor Defense.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Transistor Defense on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Transistor Defense.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under Transistor Defense on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Transistor Defense.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Transistor Defense.
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 Transistor Defense.
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 Transistor Defense.
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 Transistor Defense.
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 Transistor Defense.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Transistor Defense.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Transistor Defense.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Transistor Defense.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Transistor Defense
- How much does Transistor Defense cost?
- Transistor Defense is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Transistor Defense?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Transistor Defense are Drop Order, Zero Bugs Given, City Defense Z.
- Who developed Transistor Defense?
- Transistor Defense was developed by Realm Games LLC, Valiant Pixel Studios LLC and published by Realm Games LLC.
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