Games like Sanctum
Closest overall match: Sanctum 2 (★ 3.0). Highest rated: Orcs Must Die! 2 at ★ 3.7. Quickest to finish: Who's Your Daddy at about 1 hours.
We compared Sanctum against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 12 came closest. What ties them together most: Online Co-Op, Steam Leaderboards and First-Person. Updated Oct 16, 2026.
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69%
1. Sanctum 2
Shares Futuristic, Female Protagonist, Survival, Online Co-Op and Steam Leaderboards and 6 more tags; same developer; rated 0.3 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 28%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4, 10, Indie
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61%
2. Orcs Must Die! 2
Shares true exclusive, exclusive, Female Protagonist, Online Co-Op and Steam Leaderboards and 5 more tags; rated 0.4 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 52%
- Shared genres
- 4, 10, Indie
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59%
3. Natural Selection 2
Shares Futuristic, Tactical, Online Co-Op, First-Person and cooperative and 2 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 24%
- Shared genres
- 4, 10, Indie
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58%
4. Super Sanctum TD
Shares Steam Leaderboards, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; same developer; rated 0.4 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 2.9
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 22%
- Shared genres
- 4, 10, Casual, Indie
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57%
5. Who's Your Daddy
Shares Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Survival, Online Co-Op, First-Person and Partial Controller Support and 2 more tags; rated 0.4 lower.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 2.9
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 31%
- Shared genres
- 4, Casual, Indie
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57%
6. Yet Another Zombie Defense
Shares Survival, Online Co-Op, Steam Leaderboards, cooperative and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; rated 1.2 lower.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 2.1
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 32%
- Shared genres
- 4, 10, Casual, Indie
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56%
7. Of Guards And Thieves
Shares Tactical, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-Op and cooperative; rated 0.6 lower.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 2.7
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 17%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4, Casual, Indie
-
56%
8. Tower Wars
Shares Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-Op, Steam Leaderboards, cooperative and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags; rated 0.8 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 2.5
- Metacritic
- 59
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 16%
- Shared genres
- 4, 10, Indie
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56%
9. Serious Sam Classics: Revolution
Shares true exclusive, exclusive, Steam Leaderboards, First-Person and Partial Controller Support and 4 more tags.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 61%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie
-
56%
10. Insurgency
Shares Tactical, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-Op, First-Person and cooperative and 2 more tags.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 26%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4, Indie
-
56%
11. Rochard
Shares Partial Controller Support, Great Soundtrack, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 69%
- Shared genres
- 4, Casual, Indie
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56%
12. Nuclear Dawn
Shares Tactical, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Steam Leaderboards, First-Person and Partial Controller Support and 3 more tags; rated 0.6 lower; same release year.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 2.8
- Metacritic
- 71
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 29%
- Shared genres
- 4, 10
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Sanctum?
On our similarity model, Sanctum 2 is the closest match to Sanctum — shares Futuristic, Female Protagonist, Survival, Online Co-Op and Steam Leaderboards and 6 more tags; same developer; rated 0.3 lower; released within 2 years.
Which game like Sanctum is rated highest?
Orcs Must Die! 2 holds the highest player rating in this list at 3.7/5 from 530 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Sanctum 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.
Base game data via RAWG.