Games like Vagabond
If Vagabond is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wayward, Necesse and Don't Starve Together — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its exploration rewards meaningful loot, 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 Vagabond: Explore procedurally generated living worlds in this 2D sandbox RPG. Meet hundreds of characters in cities, complete quests, craft powerful items, buy and furnish your home or fight monsters in dungeons.
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Wayward
WHY THIS
Shares reputation system and an atmospheric mood with Vagabond.
Top pick for Vagabond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vagabond.
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
Necesse
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Vagabond.
Second-strongest match for Vagabond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vagabond.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Vagabond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vagabond.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Soulmask
WHY THIS
Shares skill tree progression and an atmospheric mood with Vagabond.
Ranked #4 for Vagabond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vagabond.
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Reign Of Kings
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Vagabond.
Ranked #5 for Vagabond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vagabond.
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Night of the Dead
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Vagabond.
Ranked #6 for Vagabond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vagabond.
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Heat
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Vagabond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vagabond.
Survive the wilderness, build a home, raise a family, and expand your territory. Gain power as President, deliver justice as Sheriff, fight for your tribe as Chief, or show some southern hospitality as Governor. Begin your new life in 19th century America.
Dark and Light
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Vagabond.
Ranked #8 for Vagabond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Vagabond.
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Vagabond
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Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Vagabond.
Reviewers of Vagabond cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Vagabond.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
WHY THIS
Shares reputation system and a retro mood with Vagabond.
Reviewers of Vagabond cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Vagabond.
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Keplerth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Vagabond.
Reviewers of Vagabond cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vagabond.
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Vagabond at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Vagabond on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Vagabond.
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 ~67% under Vagabond on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Vagabond.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Vagabond on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Vagabond.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Vagabond on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Vagabond.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Vagabond on Steam right now. Shares Action with Vagabond.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Vagabond on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vagabond.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Vagabond on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vagabond.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Vagabond on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Vagabond.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Vagabond.
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 and Simulation with Vagabond.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Vagabond.
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 Vagabond.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vagabond.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vagabond.
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.
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Frequently asked about Vagabond
- Does Vagabond run on Steam Deck?
- Vagabond 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 Vagabond cost?
- Vagabond is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Vagabond have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Vagabond supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Vagabond?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vagabond are Wayward, Necesse, Don't Starve Together.
- Who developed Vagabond?
- Vagabond was developed by Pierre Vigier.
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