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One Up Plus · 2021 · 77 % positive of 226

24 games that play like Defend the Rook and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Nordhold, Tower Dominion and Rogue Tower.

Player tags

  • Tactical RPG
  • Rogue-lite
  • Tower Defense
  • Perma Death
  • City Builder
  • Turn-Based
  • Difficult
  • Turn-Based Strategy

At a glance

What games like Defend the Rook have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Defend the Rook: Tower Defense (20 of 24), Rogue-lite (14) and Strategy (7).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2026, 14 of them after Defend the Rook (2021).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense (97 % positive of 14,832).

By gameplay

Plays like Defend the Rook

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Warlords Under Siege80 % positive of 453Shared: Rogue-lite · City Builder · Rogue-like
  2. Dungeon Warfare95 % positive of 1,916Shared: Tower Defense · Strategy · Tactical
  3. Core Defense79 % positive of 361Shared: Rogue-lite · Tower Defense · Difficult
  4. Medieval Defenders36 % positive of 250Shared: Tower Defense · Strategy · RPG
  5. Elements and build79 % positive of 197Shared: Rogue-lite · Tower Defense · Rogue-like
  6. Isle of Arrows79 % positive of 996Shared: Rogue-lite · Tower Defense · City Builder
  7. Rise of the Ancients44 % positive of 337Shared: Tower Defense · Strategy
  8. Tabletop Tavern89 % positive of 2,207
  9. Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense94 % positive of 9,793Shared: Tactical RPG · Tower Defense · Difficult
  10. The Ouroboros King83 % positive of 447Shared: Rogue-lite · Difficult · Turn-Based Strategy
  11. Tower Tactics: Liberation89 % positive of 1,126Shared: Rogue-lite · Tower Defense · Rogue-like
  12. Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense97 % positive of 14,832Shared: Tower Defense · Difficult · Strategy

By look

Looks like Defend the Rook

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Stormbound69 % positive of 1,174
  2. Tavern of Gods78 % positive of 792
  3. 纸境英雄 Papercraft85 % positive of 299
  4. SpellRogue87 % positive of 1,235
  5. Overdungeon79 % positive of 3,076
  6. Fort Triumph78 % positive of 979
  7. Ancient Gods64 % positive of 298
  8. The Spell Brigade85 % positive of 8,202
  9. Faeria83 % positive of 7,124
  10. Knight vs Giant: The Broken Excalibur76 % positive of 165
  11. Necronator: Dead Wrong68 % positive of 515
  12. Right and Down78 % positive of 216

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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