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Drill Core

Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

★ RISE TO RUINS ★ THE WILD AGE ★ KINGDOM: NEW LANDS ★ SPACE STATION TYCOON ★ KINGDOM TWO CROWNS ★ BEE ISLAND ★ UNTIL WE DIE ★ EXODUS BOREALIS ★ DEMON CASTLE STORY ★ GUARDIANS OF THE SANCTREE ★ GUARDIANS OF THE SANCTREE: EARLY BIRDS ★ DIPLOMACY IS NOT AN OPTION: SHAREWARE ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Rise to Ruins

88% 👍 OF 7.8K
About This Game

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Growing Villages
  • …Shape Monster Routes
  • …Cast Divine Powers
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Kingdom: New Lands

85% 👍 OF 12K
About This Game

Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Recruit Vagrant Subjects
  • …Build Walls and Towers
  • …Defend Against Night Raids
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Kingdom Two Crowns

90% 👍 OF 39K
About This Game

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …prepare an assault force, enter a portal, and set off a bomb that destroys the cliff portal and permanently changes the island.
  • …swap to a different monarch mid-run by paying coins at a stained-glass building, and each one has a unique power.
  • …turn into a swarm of bats and zip across the land at high speed.
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Bee Island

87% 👍 OF 1.7K
About This Game

Play solo or in co-op with friends, take control of the hive and protect it from enemies. Build factories and defence, research technologies and, if necessary, use nuclear weapons, but do not let the enemies harm the queen!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Honeycomb Factories
  • …Command Armed Bees
  • …Man Defensive Turrets
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Until We Die

63% 👍 OF 4.6K
About This Game

Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Fortify the Subway
  • …Command Station Workers
  • …Raid Mutant Nests
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Guardians of the Sanctree

75% 👍 OF 376
About This Game

You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.

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Guardians of the Sanctree: Early Birds

82% 👍 OF 187
About This Game

This version is only the prologue of the full game. The game supports 1-4 players. Build you homelands in Sanctree, using resources to craft weapons and equipment to fend off underground insects. Dig deeper to explore new worlds, destroy insect nests, and build new defenses to face greater threats.

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Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware

92% 👍 OF 826
About This Game

Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …face 25,000 enemies hitting your castle walls at once.
  • …freeze time mid-siege to breathe, reposition, and issue orders before unpausing into the chaos again.
  • …harvest soul crystals from the dead, build magical monuments, then fire beam spells and summon Dark Knights to clean up survivors.
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