Games like Vanaris Tactics
If Vanaris Tactics is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cascade Tactics, Vanaris Tactics - Prologue and Fae Tactics — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its optional encounters feel handcrafted, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Vanaris Tactics: Vanaris Tactics is a short narrative tactical RPG experience that tells a story about refugees fleeing their occupied motherland. You lead a group of refugees looking for freedom outside the walls of Vanaris, unite your people and use tactical prowess to escape your oppressors.
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Cascade Tactics
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Shares a contemplative mood with Vanaris Tactics.
Top pick for Vanaris Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vanaris Tactics.
Cascade Tactics is a tactical RPG full of interesting and interactive abilities. Hire your team, choose your classes, upgrade your equipment, and progress through a 40-mission story sequence.
Vanaris Tactics - Prologue
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Vanaris Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vanaris Tactics.
Play the Prologue chapter of Vanaris Tactics. Lead a group of refugees looking for freedom outside the walls of Vanaris, and experience the first three battles and story of Vanaris Tactics.
Fae Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Vanaris Tactics.
Third-strongest match for Vanaris Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Vanaris Tactics.
In Fae Tactics, follow a young magic user named Peony on her journey across a vibrant world full of mystery and danger. Summon allies, cast spells, and befriend a motley crew of characters as you dive into the growing conflicts between man and magical beings known as fae.
Tinyfolks
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Shares a contemplative mood with Vanaris Tactics.
Ranked #4 for Vanaris Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vanaris Tactics.
Train your folks, defeat monsters and upgrade your town!
Dark Deity 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Vanaris Tactics.
Ranked #5 for Vanaris Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vanaris Tactics.
Verroa is a peaceful continent on the brink of war as the Asverellian Empire seeks to expand - at your homeland’s expense. Command unlikely heroes, fight challenging turn-based battles, and watch hardship forge iron into steel. Dark Deity is back, bigger and better than before!
Tactical Breach Wizards
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Vanaris Tactics.
Ranked #6 for Vanaris Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vanaris Tactics.
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel 3
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Vanaris Tactics.
Ranked #7 for Vanaris Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Vanaris Tactics.
The dramatic RPG Fuga: Melodies of Steel series is now complete!
Gears Tactics
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Vanaris Tactics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Vanaris Tactics.
Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Vanaris Tactics at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Vanaris Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vanaris Tactics.
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Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Vanaris Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanaris Tactics.
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
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Priced ~50% under Vanaris Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vanaris Tactics.
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
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Priced ~50% under Vanaris Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vanaris Tactics.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Vanaris Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vanaris Tactics.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under Vanaris Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Vanaris Tactics.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Vanaris Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vanaris Tactics.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Vanaris Tactics on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanaris Tactics.
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.
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Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanaris Tactics.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vanaris Tactics.
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Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vanaris Tactics.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanaris Tactics.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanaris Tactics.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanaris Tactics.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vanaris Tactics.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanaris Tactics.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Cascade Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Vanaris Tactics.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vanaris Tactics.
Cascade Tactics is a tactical RPG full of interesting and interactive abilities. Hire your team, choose your classes, upgrade your equipment, and progress through a 40-mission story sequence.
Fae Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Vanaris Tactics.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Vanaris Tactics.
In Fae Tactics, follow a young magic user named Peony on her journey across a vibrant world full of mystery and danger. Summon allies, cast spells, and befriend a motley crew of characters as you dive into the growing conflicts between man and magical beings known as fae.
Dark Deity 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Vanaris Tactics.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vanaris Tactics.
Verroa is a peaceful continent on the brink of war as the Asverellian Empire seeks to expand - at your homeland’s expense. Command unlikely heroes, fight challenging turn-based battles, and watch hardship forge iron into steel. Dark Deity is back, bigger and better than before!
Tactical Breach Wizards
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Vanaris Tactics.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vanaris Tactics.
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.
Frequently asked about Vanaris Tactics
- How much does Vanaris Tactics cost?
- Vanaris Tactics is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Vanaris Tactics?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vanaris Tactics are Cascade Tactics, Vanaris Tactics - Prologue, Fae Tactics.
- Who developed Vanaris Tactics?
- Vanaris Tactics was developed by Matheus Reis and published by Toge Productions.
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