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Volcanic Giraffe · 2018 · 86 % positive of 454

24 games that play like Protolife and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Ooglians, Desperate Place and 2112TD: Tower Defense Survival.

Player tags

  • Tower Defense
  • Pixel Graphics
  • RTS
  • Base-Building
  • Strategy
  • Sci-fi
  • Indie
  • Singleplayer

At a glance

What games like Protolife have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Protolife: Tower Defense (24 of 24), RTS (14) and Strategy (14).
  • They came out between 2008 and 2025, 16 of them after Protolife (2018).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Defense Grid: The Awakening (96 % positive of 5,142).
  • Desperate Place both plays and looks like Protolife.

By gameplay

Plays like Protolife

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

More matches

  1. Colony Siege92 % positive of 245Shared: Tower Defense · RTS · Base-Building
  2. Siege of Centauri65 % positive of 438Shared: Tower Defense · Base-Building · Strategy
  3. MarZ: Tactical Base Defense78 % positive of 866Shared: Tower Defense · RTS · Base-Building
  4. Anomaly Defenders77 % positive of 638Shared: Tower Defense · Strategy · Sci-fi
  5. Taur79 % positive of 1,970Shared: Tower Defense · RTS · Base-Building
  6. The White Laboratory78 % positive of 356Shared: Tower Defense · RTS · Strategy
  7. Freaking Meatbags85 % positive of 168Shared: Tower Defense · Pixel Graphics · RTS
  8. From Glory To Goo95 % positive of 902Shared: Tower Defense · Pixel Graphics · RTS
  9. Space Cycle94 % positive of 205Shared: Tower Defense · Strategy · Sci-fi
  10. Robowars45 % positive of 290Shared: Tower Defense · RTS · Strategy
  11. Alien Marauder64 % positive of 333Shared: Tower Defense · RTS · Base-Building
  12. Anomaly: Warzone Earth87 % positive of 4,640Shared: Tower Defense · RTS · Strategy

By look

Looks like Protolife

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

More matches

  1. Particle Fleet: Emergence92 % positive of 1,223
  2. Heat Signature94 % positive of 7,146
  3. Serious Sam's Bogus Detour81 % positive of 506
  4. Wall World91 % positive of 10,001
  5. Earth Overclocked81 % positive of 192
  6. Void Scrappers89 % positive of 575
  7. Good Robot83 % positive of 259
  8. Depth of Extinction74 % positive of 206
  9. Desperate Place75 % positive of 206
  10. Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal96 % positive of 4,647
  11. Rush Rover93 % positive of 222
  12. Subspace Continuum88 % positive of 599

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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