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BruceGalaxy · 2025 · 75 % positive of 206

24 games that play like Desperate Place and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Exodus Borealis, Stranded: Alien Dawn and 2112TD: Tower Defense Survival.

Player tags

  • Top-Down Shooter
  • Strategy
  • Tower Defense
  • City Builder
  • Shooter
  • 2D
  • Top-Down
  • Cyberpunk

At a glance

What games like Desperate Place have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Desperate Place: Strategy (24 of 24), Tower Defense (16) and Base-Building (9).
  • They came out between 2009 and 2025, none of them after Desperate Place (2025).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Drill Core (85 % positive of 1,329).
  • 4 games both play and look like Desperate Place, among them 2112TD: Tower Defense Survival, Siege of Centauri and IDUN - Frontline Survival.

By gameplay

Plays like Desperate Place

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

More matches

  1. Drill Core85 % positive of 1,329Shared: Strategy · Tower Defense · City Builder
  2. MarZ: Tactical Base Defense78 % positive of 866Shared: Strategy · Tower Defense · Base-Building
  3. ROD: Revolt Of Defense79 % positive of 548Shared: Strategy · Indie
  4. Planetbase79 % positive of 9,852Shared: Strategy · City Builder · Base-Building
  5. Revenge of the Titans81 % positive of 1,227Shared: Strategy · Tower Defense · Top-Down
  6. StarFringe: Adversus66 % positive of 208Shared: Top-Down Shooter · Strategy · Top-Down
  7. Colony Siege92 % positive of 245Shared: Strategy · Tower Defense · Base-Building
  8. Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder73 % positive of 701Shared: Strategy · City Builder · Base-Building
  9. Stellar Survivor65 % positive of 174Shared: Strategy · Tower Defense · Shooter
  10. Sphere - Flying Cities50 % positive of 231Shared: Strategy · City Builder · Cyberpunk
  11. Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander83 % positive of 1,308Shared: Strategy · Base-Building · Space
  12. Alien Shooter TD86 % positive of 879Shared: Strategy · Tower Defense · Shooter

By look

Looks like Desperate Place

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

More matches

  1. IDUN - Frontline Survival78 % positive of 536
  2. Stormgate49 % positive of 7,483
  3. Nex Machina87 % positive of 2,123
  4. Ancient Planet Tower Defense82 % positive of 1,129
  5. Exocraft52 % positive of 357
  6. Astro Looter: Survivor76 % positive of 402
  7. SunAge: Battle for Elysium72 % positive of 175
  8. 2112TD: Tower Defense Survival87 % positive of 402
  9. Calyx87 % positive of 492
  10. Good Robot83 % positive of 259
  11. Steambirds Alliance75 % positive of 1,233
  12. AirMech Wastelands69 % positive of 402

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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