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Games like Anomaly: Warzone Earth

If Anomaly: Warzone Earth is your kind of game, the closest matches are Anomaly 2, CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense and Revenge of the Titans — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its convoy route planning matters, min maxing convoy composition and pause to issue commands. 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 Anomaly: Warzone Earth: Lead an armored squad through the perils of this reversed tower defense action-strategy game!

2011ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDMetacritic 80Windows · macOS · Linuxby 11 bit studios
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Players who liked Anomaly: Warzone Earth also play

Steam players who put hours into Anomaly: Warzone Earth 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. Anomaly 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares reverse tower defense and an atmospheric mood with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Top pick for Anomaly: Warzone Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Anomaly 2 is a sequel to the critically acclaimed Anomaly Warzone Earth. Maintaining the core elements of the original, Anomaly 2 adds plenty of new features: unit morphing, over million tactical combinations, post-apo world and tower defense vs tower offense multiplayer mode.

    2013ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Second-strongest match for Anomaly: Warzone Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    The replicator robots are back! It's 2528. The machines are increasingly infecting the planets with genetically modified monsters. Challenge them and try to stop the onslaught. Upgrade buildings and heroes, mine resources, discover technology and fight to save humanity!

    2023ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Revenge of the Titans

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Third-strongest match for Anomaly: Warzone Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    The ultimate mash-up of Real-time Strategy and Tower Defense!

    2011ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Defense Grid: The Awakening

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Ranked #4 for Anomaly: Warzone Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Defense Grid: The Awakening is a unique spin on tower defense gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. A horde of enemies is invading, and it's up to the player to stop them by strategically building fortification towers around their base.

    2008StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Anomaly Korea

    WHY THIS

    Shares ability management, reverse tower defense and an atmospheric mood with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Ranked #5 for Anomaly: Warzone Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Exclusively brought to Steam for PC, Mac and Linux in Anomaly Bundle, Anomaly Korea is an expansion campaign to Anomaly Warzone Earth. The alien robots are back and this time they’ve got Korea in their sights. It’s your job to lead a squad into fierce fire-fights and fend off the alien invasion.

    2013ActionStrategy4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Infested Planet

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Ranked #6 for Anomaly: Warzone Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.

    2014ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. CHAOTIC ERA

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Anomaly: Warzone Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    AT THE LIMITS OF EARTH, AT THE EXTREMITY OF HEAVEN. A REAL-TIME STRATEGY NIGHTMARE.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie8.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Unstoppable Gorg

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Ranked #8 for Anomaly: Warzone Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Defend the solar system from fearsome aliens by sending satellites into orbit in revolutionary tower defense action!

    2012ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Anomaly: Warzone Earth

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Sanctum

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Reviewers of Anomaly: Warzone Earth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    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.

    2011ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Anomaly 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares reverse tower defense and an atmospheric mood with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Reviewers of Anomaly: Warzone Earth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Anomaly 2 is a sequel to the critically acclaimed Anomaly Warzone Earth. Maintaining the core elements of the original, Anomaly 2 adds plenty of new features: unit morphing, over million tactical combinations, post-apo world and tower defense vs tower offense multiplayer mode.

    2013ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Unrailed!

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Anomaly: Warzone Earth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Unrailed! is a co-op multiplayer game where you have to work together with your friends to build a train track across endless procedurally generated worlds. Master random encounters with its inhabitants, upgrade your train and keep it from derailing!

    2020ActionIndieCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Frostpunk 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Reviewers of Anomaly: Warzone Earth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

    2024StrategySimulation44.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Anomaly: Warzone Earth at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Anomaly: Warzone Earth on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    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 ~50% under Anomaly: Warzone Earth on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    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. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Anomaly: Warzone Earth on Steam right now. Shares Action with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Anomaly: Warzone Earth on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    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 ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Anomaly: Warzone Earth on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

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

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Anomaly: Warzone Earth on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    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 ↗
  7. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Anomaly: Warzone Earth on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    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.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Anomaly: Warzone Earth on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    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 ↗
  4. Disfigure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!

    2023ActionIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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 ↗
  6. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    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.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Play as Chelshia the chimera in this platforming beat-em-up adventure into the wonderful world of monster girls!

    2016ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from 11 bit studios

Other recommendable Steam games by 11 bit studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Frostpunk

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Another title from 11 bit studios, the studio behind Anomaly: Warzone Earth. Shares Strategy with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

    2018StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. This War of Mine

    WHY THIS

    Another title from 11 bit studios, the studio behind Anomaly: Warzone Earth. Shares Indie with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

    2014IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Frostpunk 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Another title from 11 bit studios, the studio behind Anomaly: Warzone Earth. Shares Strategy with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

    2024StrategySimulation44.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Alters

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Another title from 11 bit studios, the studio behind Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.

    2025Adventure34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Anomaly 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares reverse tower defense and an atmospheric mood with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Another title from 11 bit studios, the studio behind Anomaly: Warzone Earth. Shares Action and Strategy with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Anomaly 2 is a sequel to the critically acclaimed Anomaly Warzone Earth. Maintaining the core elements of the original, Anomaly 2 adds plenty of new features: unit morphing, over million tactical combinations, post-apo world and tower defense vs tower offense multiplayer mode.

    2013ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Anomaly Defenders

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Another title from 11 bit studios, the studio behind Anomaly: Warzone Earth. Shares Action and Strategy with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Anomaly Defenders is the closing installment of the Anomaly series. The original incarnation of the Tower Offense sub-genre had players controlling humans fighting alien invaders. Now, the tables have turned. The human counterattack is underway and the alien homeworld is under threat.

    2014ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Anomaly Korea

    WHY THIS

    Shares ability management, reverse tower defense and an atmospheric mood with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Another title from 11 bit studios, the studio behind Anomaly: Warzone Earth. Shares Action and Strategy with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Exclusively brought to Steam for PC, Mac and Linux in Anomaly Bundle, Anomaly Korea is an expansion campaign to Anomaly Warzone Earth. The alien robots are back and this time they’ve got Korea in their sights. It’s your job to lead a squad into fierce fire-fights and fend off the alien invasion.

    2013ActionStrategy4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Another title from 11 bit studios, the studio behind Anomaly: Warzone Earth. Shares Action and Strategy with Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

    Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign continues Steam's Anomaly Warzone Earth in an extra 15-level campaign. Originally released on mobile devices, the campaign is brought to Steam for PC, Mac and Linux exclusively in Anomaly Bundle. AWE Mobile Campaign turns tower defense on its head.

    2013ActionStrategy4.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Anomaly: Warzone Earth

Does Anomaly: Warzone Earth work on Steam Deck?
Anomaly: Warzone Earth is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does Anomaly: Warzone Earth cost?
Anomaly: Warzone Earth is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Anomaly: Warzone Earth?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Anomaly: Warzone Earth are Anomaly 2, CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense, Revenge of the Titans.
Who developed Anomaly: Warzone Earth?
Anomaly: Warzone Earth was developed by 11 bit studios.

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