Deathtrap similar games & best alternatives

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Deathtrap

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One • 2015

Should you play it?

Deathtrap is a Tower Defense game with strong action-RPG elements, a game of vicious tricks, killing machines, rotating blades and splattering blood.

What works

  • Deep rpg and tower defense hybrid gameplay
  • Extensive character and trap customization
  • Cooperative multiplayer and map editor
  • Dark fantasy atmosphere with immersive audio-visuals
  • High replayability with multiple difficulties and modes

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited trap placement reduces strategic freedom
  • Campaign can become repetitive due to map reuse
  • Some bugs and occasional crashes reported
  • Lack of strong narrative or story depth
  • Multiplayer community is small and matchmaking can be difficult

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Dungeon Defenders

  • Orcs Must Die! 2

  • Borderlands 2

  • Orcs Must Die! 3

  • Victor Vran ARPG

  • Bloodsports.TV

Less competitive

Games that feels like Deathtrap but with less competition against others

  • The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut

  • The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing

  • Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Prophecy

  • Demeo

  • Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide

  • Abyssus

Less intimate

Games that feels like Deathtrap but with less focus on close relationships

  • Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr

  • Hellsweeper VR

  • Last Epoch

  • STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN

  • Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms

  • Diablo II: Resurrected – Infernal Edition

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr

  • Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Prophecy

  • The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing

  • The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut

  • King Arthur: Knight's Tale

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How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Deathtrap: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Status, Competition, Violence.

Last update: 04/08/2026