Games Like HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea

HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea

A colorful but challenging blend of classic RTS and tower defense. Build, expand, research, and defend your alien colony as you race to construct a teleportation device and escape a dying star.

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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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Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition

92% 👍 OF 11K
About This Game

Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …crank the map scale up to battles with up to 10,000 units, then defend your walls while massive armies and siege engines collide.
  • …snowball a whole mission by setting up the market to auto buy and sell, then turning a slow start into instant domination.
  • …play timed trails where you start behind, stabilize your economy under a clock, and grind through hours-long back-and-forth wars.
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DarkSwitch

78% 👍 OF 785
About This Game

DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build a Tree City
  • …Light the Fog
  • …Connect City Layers
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Becastled

82% 👍 OF 5.6K
About This Game

Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Before Sunset
  • …Hold Night Sieges
  • …Arm Castle Battlements
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Stronghold HD (2012)

96% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …watch a full bread pipeline in motion: wheat gets grown, reaped, milled into flour, baked, and hauled back to the granary.
  • …design a custom castle with layered walls, towers, and traps, then unleash huge sieges on it just to see what holds.
  • …build spike traps and tar pits, then light the choke point with flaming arrows as enemies march straight into it.
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They Are Billions

85% 👍 OF 51K
About This Game

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Fortified Colonies
  • …Manage Colony Resources
  • …Pause and Command
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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)

97% 👍 OF 21K
About This Game

The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …catapult cows over the walls, spread plague inside the castle, and watch the defenders collapse from disease.
  • …set spike pits, moats, drawbridges, boiling oil, and pitch traps so your defenses kill attackers without leaving the walls.
  • …use a map builder to create custom levels, then replay them endlessly or share them for multiplayer matches.
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Stronghold: Definitive Edition

87% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Medieval Castles
  • …Balance Food And Taxes
  • …Defend With Moats
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Lessaria: Fantasy Kingdom Sim

78% 👍 OF 3.1K
About This Game

Lessaria is an RTS inspired by Majesty 👑 where you guide heroes with indirect control. Play through the campaign or relax in sandbox mode as you build your magical kingdom.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Recruit Self-Directed Heroes
  • …Motivate With Bounties
  • …Build a Taxed Kingdom
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Final Outpost: Definitive Edition

77% 👍 OF 211
About This Game

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

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Settlements Rising

81% 👍 OF 436
About This Game

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.