Games like Guardian of the future
If Guardian of the future is your kind of game, the closest matches are How to Take Off Your Mask Remastered, 1997 and Demonheart: The Ice Demon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its affection stats streamline replayability, atmospheric and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Guardian of the future: In this fantasy visual novel, you will play as Miyuri, the heiress of the great Bakuto clan of adherents to ancient martial arts. She has inherited a very important ability from her deceased mother: a mysterious power that would help save the world.
Players who liked Guardian of the future also play
Steam players who put hours into Guardian of the future also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
How to Take Off Your Mask Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings with Guardian of the future.
Top pick for Guardian of the future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guardian of the future.
The cute fantasy visual novel, "How to Take Off Your Mask" returns as a remastered version. One day, Lilia wakes up as a girl with cat ears and a tail! How could this happen, and how will her love story with her childhood friend, Ronan, unfold?
1997
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Guardian of the future.
Second-strongest match for Guardian of the future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guardian of the future.
Detective visual novel about mysteries of rural Russian town in 90-s, anime style.
Demonheart: The Ice Demon
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Guardian of the future.
Third-strongest match for Guardian of the future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Guardian of the future.
Play as the young witch Shar, as she moves in with a famous witch who keeps demonic prisoners in her basement. Will you find romance or doom?
爱人 Lover
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Guardian of the future.
Ranked #4 for Guardian of the future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Guardian of the future.
发生在中国的三段绝对本土又完全不同的故事，由校园篇、古代篇、都市篇组成，均以女性第一视角展开。
Expelled!
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Guardian of the future.
Ranked #5 for Guardian of the future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guardian of the future.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Demonheart
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Guardian of the future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Guardian of the future.
Discover the secrets of the witches and demons in this dark fantasy romance game, featuring a female protagonist whose personality is completely up to the player thanks to extensive dialog choices.
Sigh of the Abyss
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Guardian of the future.
Ranked #7 for Guardian of the future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guardian of the future.
Embrace the monster within in this dark fantasy visual novel with inclusive romances. Befriend charming allies, defy bitter rivals, fall in love. Your choices will save or condemn mortals, shaping the fate of a city as beautiful as it is cruel.
Bard Harder!
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Guardian of the future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guardian of the future.
BARD HARDER! is a tabletop-inspired visual novel game about saving your friends from the Big Bad Evil Guy by using your strongest weapon: romance! So brush up on your pick-up lines and prepare some sexy tunes…what’s the worst that could happen?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Guardian of the future at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Guardian of the future on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Guardian of the future.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Guardian of the future on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Guardian of the future.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Guardian of the future on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Guardian of the future.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Guardian of the future on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Guardian of the future.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Guardian of the future on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guardian of the future.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Guardian of the future on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guardian of the future.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Guardian of the future on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Guardian of the future.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Guardian of the future on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guardian of the future.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Guardian of the future.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Guardian of the future.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guardian of the future.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guardian of the future.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Guardian of the future.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guardian of the future.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guardian of the future.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Guardian of the future
- Does Guardian of the future run on Steam Deck?
- Guardian of the future is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Guardian of the future cost?
- Guardian of the future is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Guardian of the future?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Guardian of the future are How to Take Off Your Mask Remastered, 1997, Demonheart: The Ice Demon.
- Who developed Guardian of the future?
- Guardian of the future was developed by Lotos Project.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Guardian of the future.
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