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Games like Repel The Rifts
RefinedBearGames · 2025 · Windows, Linux
Steam: 83 % positive of 354 reviews, as of Oct 28
Repel the Rifts is a roguelite tower defense game where you lead a commander through an alien world, uncovering new terrain each wave, drafting powerful upgrades, and constructing defenses to hold back the chaos.
24 games that play like Repel The Rifts and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Tower Dominion, Refactor and Into the Breach.
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Plays and looks like Repel The Rifts
These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like Repel The Rifts
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Tower Dominion
85 % positive of 5,222
Shared: Tower Defense · Rogue-like · Sci-fi
Refactor
83 % positive of 432
Shared: Tower Defense · Rogue-like · Sci-fi
Into the Breach
93 % positive of 19,146
Shared: Rogue-like · Mechs · Sci-fi
Rift Riff
94 % positive of 370
Shared: Tower Defense · Strategy · Isometric
Defense Grid: The Awakening
95 % positive of 4,542
Shared: Tower Defense · Sci-fi · Strategy
Wall World
89 % positive of 11,498
Shared: Tower Defense · Rogue-like · Mechs
Rogue Tower
82 % positive of 5,789
Shared: Tower Defense · Rogue-like · Rogue-lite
Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense
86 % positive of 709
Shared: Tower Defense · Rogue-like · Sci-fi
Dome Keeper
91 % positive of 19,273
Shared: Tower Defense · Rogue-like · Sci-fi
Emberward
95 % positive of 4,421
Shared: Tower Defense · Rogue-like · Tactical
Stellar Initiative
76 % positive of 406
Shared: Tower Defense · Rogue-like · Mechs
Rogue Monster Rush
93 % positive of 244
Shared: Tower Defense · Rogue-like · Strategy
More matches
- Rogue Command88 % positive of 1,053Shared: Tower Defense · Rogue-like · Sci-fi
- Defend the Rook73 % positive of 189Shared: Tower Defense · Rogue-like · Tactical
- Monster Tiles TD: Tower Wars81 % positive of 510Shared: Tower Defense · Rogue-like · Tactical
- Mineral Defense90 % positive of 222Shared: Tower Defense · Rogue-like · Sci-fi
- Tower Factory88 % positive of 1,233Shared: Tower Defense · Rogue-like · Rogue-lite
- X-Morph: Defense89 % positive of 3,308Shared: Tower Defense · Sci-fi · Strategy
- Hexguardian78 % positive of 624Shared: Tower Defense · Rogue-like · Tactical
- Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD68 % positive of 209Shared: Tower Defense · Rogue-like · Rogue-lite
- Dungeon Warfare94 % positive of 1,938Shared: Tower Defense · Tactical · Strategy
- Super Sanctum TD85 % positive of 1,020Shared: Tower Defense · Sci-fi · Strategy
- 2112TD: Tower Defense Survival87 % positive of 433Shared: Tower Defense · Sci-fi · Space
- 变量 Variables85 % positive of 954Shared: Tower Defense · Rogue-like · Rogue-lite
By look
Looks like Repel The Rifts
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Into the Breach
93 % positive of 19,146
Dome Keeper
91 % positive of 19,273
9 Kings
91 % positive of 21,771
Risk of Rain (2013)
93 % positive of 20,787
Nova Lands
90 % positive of 2,531
Risk of Rain Returns
89 % positive of 24,859
Wall World
89 % positive of 11,498
Click the Button
92 % positive of 5,041
Dicevaders
95 % positive of 948
Tower Tactics: Liberation
88 % positive of 1,235
Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot
78 % positive of 1,617
Cobalt Core
95 % positive of 4,107
More matches
- Realm of the Mad God Exalt82 % positive of 47,817
- Rocket Rats92 % positive of 2,468
- Dungeon of the ENDLESS™86 % positive of 9,428
- One Step From Eden94 % positive of 6,052
- Space Rock Breaker95 % positive of 4,873
- I Wanna Maker95 % positive of 5,120
- Rogue: Genesia90 % positive of 8,215
- Neophyte90 % positive of 661
- Repetendium91 % positive of 220
- Variables 290 % positive of 421
- Rogue Voltage92 % positive of 602
- Lazy Galaxy 276 % positive of 168
At a glance
What games like Repel The Rifts have in common
- The tags they share most often with Repel The Rifts: Tower Defense (23 of 24), Rogue-like (18) and Sci-fi (11).
- They came out between 2008 and 2026, 3 of them after Repel The Rifts (2025).
- Best rated by Steam players: Emberward (95 % positive of 4,421).
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.