Games like En Garde!
If En Garde! is your kind of game, the closest matches are Orc's Bride, Hi-Fi RUSH and Billion Beat — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its environmental chaos fuels combat, challenging and comedic. 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 →En Garde! is a 2023 action-adventure set in a swashbuckling world of arena-based combat against guards and noblemen. The single attack string forces creative playstyle, requiring environmental interaction, parrying, and crowd-control to survive the challenging encounters. Players describe the game as comedic and whimsical, with swashbuckling humor that shines throughout. Reviewers highlight the arena layouts as demanding tactical improvisation while environmental chaos fuels the combat. Voice acting has been called campy and hilarious by players. Released at $19.99 USD with a short solo campaign, the Steam Deck verified title holds a 93% positive rating from 2,443 Steam reviews.
About En Garde!: En Garde! – the swashbuckler action game! Battle graceless guards and nefarious noblemen in fast-paced fights full of spectacle. Use the environment, your wit and your blade to teach them all a lesson!
Players who liked En Garde! also play
Steam players who put hours into En Garde! 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.
Orc's Bride
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Top pick for En Garde! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with En Garde!.
She was proposed to by the Orc Prince. A goverment fearful of war with the Orc Empire decided to hand her over and placed a hefty bounty on her. In this world, everyone is an enemy. Fight and keep on fighting.
Hi-Fi RUSH
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with En Garde!.
Second-strongest match for En Garde! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with En Garde!.
Test your abilities in two new game modes, uncover new rewards and even a few secrets in the Arcade Challenge! Update! Feel the beat as wannabe rockstar Chai and his ragtag team fight against an evil megacorp in a world that syncs to the music.
Billion Beat
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Shares a challenging mood with En Garde!.
Third-strongest match for En Garde! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with En Garde!.
Behold, Billion Beat! It's a brutal boxing bonanza. Beat the bicuspids off a bevy of bizarre baddies. Be a badass and bet on your brawn to bag a billion bucks! Booyah, baby!
Aza
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Ranked #4 for En Garde! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with En Garde!.
Aza: A stylish fast-paced anime hack 'n' slash where the reluctant protector Zend fights the obsessed demon pursuer, Zara. Lead the angel knight Aza through legions of creatures to retrieve the three crystalized guardians and unlock her full power to escape the pursuit.
Harvest Havoc
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Ranked #5 for En Garde! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with En Garde!.
Grow, harvest, (steal) and sell your crops to win! Fight with your fists or grow some weapons to smack your rivals and take their crops. Gather your friends online and compete to become the best farmer-warrior in this chaotic PvP party game.
BEAK BLADES
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Ranked #6 for En Garde! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with En Garde!.
A fast-paced, crazy and chaotic battler full of different weapons, maps, game modes, and hats! Fight with swords, battleaxes, and knives! Blast each other with shotguns, rocket launchers, and flame throwers! This is BEAK BLADES!
Nine Nights
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Shares a challenging mood with En Garde!.
Ranked #7 for En Garde! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with En Garde!.
《Nine Nights》is an indie hardcore action-adventure game. You will become the killer Ci Lang, escape and fight back in the crisis-ridden world of Nine Nights. You have to rely on the high martial arts skills tenacious fighting, struggling to lead to the road to revenge.
Soulstice
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Shares a challenging mood with En Garde!.
Ranked #8 for En Garde! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with En Garde!.
Explore a dark world brimming with hidden mysteries, master a diverse combat system, and inhabit the dual forces of two sisters in a coming-of-age dark fantasy story with fast-paced action, vicious enemies, and spectacular boss fights.
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LEGO® Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game
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Reviewers of En Garde! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with En Garde!.
LEGO® Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game is an action adventure game that brings the Pirates of the Caribbean world and all its colorful characters to life in LEGO Brick form. Players experience all the memorable scenes from all four films in the humorous and quirky LEGO Video Games style.
Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition
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Shares a challenging mood with En Garde!.
Reviewers of En Garde! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with En Garde!.
Game of the Year - The Game Awards 2019 Best Action Game of 2019 - IGN Carve your own clever path to vengeance in the award winning adventure from developer FromSoftware, creators of Bloodborne and the Dark Souls series. Take Revenge. Restore Your Honor. Kill Ingeniously.
Bride for the Princess
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Reviewers of En Garde! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with En Garde!.
Bride for the Princess is Erotic Yuri Visual Novel that tells a story about a Princess who must find someone to marry before her upcoming coronation due to a conspiracy; a legislation that was passed behind her back in attempt to ruin her.
Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition
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Shares a funny mood with En Garde!.
Reviewers of En Garde! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with En Garde!.
Sea of Thieves is a smash-hit pirate adventure game, offering the quintessential pirate experience of plundering lost treasures, intense battles, vanquishing sea monsters and more. Dive in with this revised edition of the game, which includes access to digital bonus media.
Pumpkin Jack
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Shares a comedic mood with En Garde!.
Reviewers of En Garde! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with En Garde!.
Pumpkin Jack is a Spooky Scary 3D platformer in which you embody Jack, the Mythical Pumpkin Lord! Dive into an Epic Adventure through otherworldly landscapes and help the Evil annihilate the Good!
Zorro The Chronicles
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Shares a funny mood with En Garde!.
Reviewers of En Garde! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with En Garde!.
Zorro The Chronicles is an exciting and humorous game featuring combat and exploration gameplay inspired by the best action games in class.
Sifu
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Shares a challenging mood with En Garde!.
Reviewers of En Garde! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with En Garde!.
Sifu is a realistic third-person brawler with tight Kung Fu combat mechanics and cinematic martial arts action embarking you on a path for revenge.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below En Garde! at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under En Garde! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with En Garde!.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under En Garde! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with En Garde!.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~50% under En Garde! on Steam right now. Shares Action with En Garde!.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under En Garde! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with En Garde!.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under En Garde! on Steam right now. Shares Action with En Garde!.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with En Garde!.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with En Garde!.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with En Garde!.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with En Garde!.
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 with En Garde!.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with En Garde!.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with En Garde!.
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 En Garde!
- Is En Garde! verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — En Garde! is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does En Garde! cost?
- En Garde! is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to En Garde!?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside En Garde! are Orc's Bride, Hi-Fi RUSH, Billion Beat.
- Who developed En Garde!?
- En Garde! was developed by Fireplace Games and published by Fireplace Games, Kepler Ghost.
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