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Talentplace · 2016 · Windows

Steam: 44 % positive of 337 reviews, as of Oct 18

They appeared seemingly from nowhere and are ready for battle... You have to take up the defense of the land and prevent the Ancients from seizing the kingdom!

24 games that play like Rise of the Ancients and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense, Defense Grid: The Awakening and Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense.

Player tags

  • Indie
  • Strategy
  • Tower Defense
Map region: Tower Defense
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Best matches

Plays and looks like Rise of the Ancients

Close to it by gameplay and by look, so it appears in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Rise of the Ancients

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

More matches

  1. Infinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense91 % positive of 3,674Shared: Strategy · Tower Defense
  2. Tower Dominion83 % positive of 1,843Shared: Strategy · Tower Defense
  3. Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD87 % positive of 8,855Shared: Strategy · Tower Defense · Indie
  4. Revenge of the Titans81 % positive of 1,227Shared: Strategy · Tower Defense · Indie
  5. Royal Defense72 % positive of 376Shared: Strategy · Tower Defense · Indie
  6. Defend the Rook77 % positive of 226Shared: Strategy · Tower Defense
  7. King's Guard TD58 % positive of 359Shared: Strategy · Tower Defense · Indie
  8. Dungeon Warfare 290 % positive of 1,067Shared: Strategy · Tower Defense · Indie
  9. Rogue Tower82 % positive of 5,633Shared: Strategy · Tower Defense · Indie
  10. GemCraft - Chasing Shadows95 % positive of 4,136Shared: Strategy · Tower Defense · Indie
  11. Emberward97 % positive of 2,685Shared: Strategy · Tower Defense · Indie
  12. Relic Guardian - Tower Defense95 % positive of 1,155

By look

Looks like Rise of the Ancients

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

More matches

  1. GemCraft - Chasing Shadows95 % positive of 4,136
  2. Subspace Continuum88 % positive of 599
  3. Flywrench95 % positive of 340
  4. Outpost87 % positive of 758
  5. Creeper World: Anniversary Edition96 % positive of 892
  6. Terminus: Zombie Survivors94 % positive of 3,997
  7. Good Robot83 % positive of 259
  8. Lyca83 % positive of 402
  9. Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation74 % positive of 4,772
  10. Multiwinia81 % positive of 585
  11. HellCat85 % positive of 213
  12. Vectorio81 % positive of 357

At a glance

What games like Rise of the Ancients have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Rise of the Ancients: Strategy (23 of 24), Tower Defense (23) and Indie (19).
  • They came out between 2008 and 2026, 14 of them after Rise of the Ancients (2016).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense (97 % positive of 14,832).

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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