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- $14.99 (Price checked Oct 31)
- Deck Playable
- 2011
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- $7.79 (Price checked Nov 5)
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- Released: 2018
- Developer: Volcanic Giraffe
- Price: $7.79−35%checked Oct 31
- Steam Deck: Deck Verified
- 86% of 303 reviews
- Genres: Strategy, Indie
- Platforms: Windows, macOS
Players highlight
- Blend tower defense with rts micro management
- Design towers from scratch with modular parts
- Experiment mode lets you create custom challenges
- Atmospheric
- Challenging
- Contemplative
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About Protolife
The closest matches to Protolife: Revenge of the Titans, Infested Planet, From Glory To Goo, Taur, and Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Protolife is your kind of game, the closest matches are Revenge of the Titans, Infested Planet and From Glory To Goo — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, challenging and contemplative, and single out its experiment mode and modular tower construction. 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.
About Protolife: Protolife is an unique tower-based strategy game which gives you a direct control over the builder robot in a struggle against the hungry proto-life organism.
Is Protolife worth buying?
Players recommend it
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 86% of 303 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- Price: $11.99 (checked Nov 7).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 10 h when they wrote their review.
- Steam Deck Verified.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Blend tower defense with rts micro management
- Design towers from scratch with modular parts
- Experiment mode lets you create custom challenges
- Fight a living spreading alien infection
People who play it also play: Revenge of the Titans, Infested Planet, From Glory To Goo
Frequently asked about Protolife
Can I run it?
Is Protolife verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Protolife is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Protolife cost?
Protolife is listed on Steam at 7.79 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Protolife?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Protolife are Revenge of the Titans, Infested Planet, From Glory To Goo.
Who developed Protolife?
Protolife was developed by Volcanic Giraffe.