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Games like Skyland Defense

If Skyland Defense is your kind of game, the closest matches are Polygons Tower Defense, Reforged TD - Tower Defense and Battlewake — 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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About Skyland Defense: Defend your skyland! Grab a tower and fight off the pirates. Build traps to slow down their march. Construct utility buildings and expand your village. Play alone or join your friends in this in-depth strategy and tower defense game!

2019StrategyIndieEarly Access11.99 USDWindowsby SDC Ventures
Skyland Defense — Steam game cover

Players who liked Skyland Defense also play

Steam players who put hours into Skyland Defense 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.

  1. Polygons Tower Defense

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Skyland Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Skyland Defense.

    Defend this colorful world with a brilliant strategy! Strengthen your battlefield and don't let enemies reach their destination. Make amazing combinations, and choose the most powerful elements wisely!

    2023ActionStrategyCasual2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Reforged TD - Tower Defense

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Skyland Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyland Defense.

    Single or multiplayer tower defense with high replay value. Build and upgrade towers, use special items and discover the extensive talent tree for your characters and towers. Ideal for strategists!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure12.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Battlewake

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Skyland Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyland Defense.

    Fight for dominion in Battlewake, a fantasy naval combat game built for VR. Play as 4 mythical pirate lords, captain massive battle-ready warships, and summon ancient powers as you set sail on a larger-than-life nautical war for the ages.

    2019ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Tabletop Playground

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Skyland Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyland Defense.

    The modern digital tabletop game for fans and creators! Featuring deep customization and choice, enjoy more immersive tabletop sessions with friends than ever before. Build new rule sets for traditional games, play custom-made games by the community or create your own and share them with the world.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Element TD 2 - Tower Defense

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Skyland Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyland Defense.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndie5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Circle Empires Rivals

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Skyland Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyland Defense.

    In this fast-paced multiplayer RTS, you and your friends will take control of your own tiny kingdoms and conquer a world made of circles. Each one is overflowing with enemies to fight, monsters to hunt and loot to hoard – but watch out... Friends can quickly become rivals!

    2020StrategyIndieCasual15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Touhou Big Big Battle

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Skyland Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyland Defense.

    just a touhou rts game

    2018ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Out of Ammo

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Skyland Defense fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyland Defense.

    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.

    2016ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Skyland Defense at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Skyland Defense on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skyland 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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Skyland Defense on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skyland 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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~42% under Skyland Defense on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Skyland Defense.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~48% under Skyland Defense on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyland Defense.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. How to Fish

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~59% under Skyland Defense on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skyland 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.

    2026ActionIndieSimulation4.95 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Skyland Defense on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyland 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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Skyland Defense on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skyland Defense.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under Skyland Defense on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skyland 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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Skyland 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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Skyland 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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Skyland Defense.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Skyland Defense.

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Skyland Defense.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeSteam ↗
  8. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Skyland Defense

How much does Skyland Defense cost?
Skyland Defense is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Skyland Defense have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Skyland Defense supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to Skyland Defense?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Skyland Defense are Polygons Tower Defense, Reforged TD - Tower Defense, Battlewake.
Who developed Skyland Defense?
Skyland Defense was developed by SDC Ventures.

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 Skyland Defense.

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