Games like Defense Grid: The Awakening
Closest overall match: Defense Grid 2 (★ 3.2). Highest rated: Eador: Genesis at ★ 3.6. Quickest to finish: UFO: Afterlight at about 1 hours.
Looking for something like Defense Grid: The Awakening? Our model ranked 12 games by how much they share with it. What ties them together most: Steam Achievements, Singleplayer and steam-trading-cards.
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56%
1. Defense Grid 2
Shares Full controller support, steam-trading-cards, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; same developer.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 43%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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53%
2. UFO: Afterlight
Shares Aliens and Singleplayer; rated 0.9 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2007
- Rating
- ★ 2.4
- Metacritic
- 71
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 46%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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53%
3. AI War: Fleet Command
Shares steam-trading-cards, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.8 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2009
- Rating
- ★ 2.6
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 3h
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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53%
4. Atom Zombie Smasher
Shares Replay Value, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 lower.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 40%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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53%
5. Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Shares Touch-Friendly, Aliens, Full controller support, steam-trading-cards and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; rated 0.4 lower.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 2.9
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 48%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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53%
6. Solar Flux
Shares Full controller support, steam-trading-cards, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 1.2 lower.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 2.2
- Playtime
- 4h
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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52%
7. Space Run
Shares steam-trading-cards, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.3 lower.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Metacritic
- 73
- Playtime
- 5h
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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52%
8. Multiwinia
Shares Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 1.2 lower; same release year.
- Year
- 2008
- Rating
- ★ 2.2
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 17%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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52%
9. Eador: Genesis
Shares Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2009
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 35%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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52%
10. Revenge of the Titans
Shares Aliens, steam-trading-cards, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Metacritic
- 79
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 38%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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52%
11. Sanctum 2
Shares Aliens, Futuristic, Full controller support, steam-trading-cards and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; rated 0.4 lower.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 28%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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51%
12. Eador. Masters of the Broken World
Shares steam-trading-cards, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.6 lower.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 2.8
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 24%
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Defense Grid: The Awakening?
On our similarity model, Defense Grid 2 is the closest match to Defense Grid: The Awakening — shares Full controller support, steam-trading-cards, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; same developer.
Which game like Defense Grid: The Awakening is rated highest?
Eador: Genesis holds the highest player rating in this list at 3.6/5 from 56 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Defense Grid: The Awakening on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
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