Games like GUARDS!
If GUARDS! is your kind of game, the closest matches are PILGRIM, Dungeons Deep and SPACE HUG-DUNG — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its beans, comedic and dark. 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 GUARDS!: GUARDS! is an online co-op fantasy FPS that puts you in the underfunded and over-zealous steel boots of the City Watch. Kick down doors, bust criminals and cause excessive property damage as you fight to restore law and order to the corrupt city of New Alestead.
Players who liked GUARDS! also play
Steam players who put hours into GUARDS! 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.
PILGRIM
WHY THIS
Shares medieval and an intense mood with GUARDS!.
Top pick for GUARDS! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with GUARDS!.
Pilgrim is a medieval-based, co-op horror, adventure. Can you and your friends make it to the end of The Road?
Dungeons Deep
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for GUARDS! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with GUARDS!.
Plunge into the Dungeons Deep! A dark-fantasy ARPG featuring vast underworlds full of horrifying monsters and ancient treasures. Liberate the plagued lands of Antioch for those who still remain.
SPACE HUG-DUNG
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for GUARDS! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with GUARDS!.
"Infiltrate mysterious planetary facilities to snatch the core 'Hug-Dung' and escape. Battle giant robots and alien creatures in 4-player co-op, secure the core, and return to the extraction pod in this sci-fi action experience."
Medieval Darkness
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for GUARDS! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with GUARDS!.
A third-person action RPG or MODA, where 80s rockers are dragged into a cursed medieval world. Bring friends, level up fast, unlock skills through quests and loot, and Prestige for permanent upgrades. Go on runs to complete missions, but just remember dudes, hair spray and fireballs don’t mix!
Murky Divers
WHY THIS
Shares dark humor and a stressful mood with GUARDS!.
Ranked #5 for GUARDS! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with GUARDS!.
Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.
The Violets of Amicus™
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Ranked #6 for GUARDS! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with GUARDS!.
Attack, dodge, and counter the monsters invading the land of Velare in The Violets of Amicus, a 2D action-adventure inspired by classic dungeon crawlers and modern combat games alike. The ferocious Violets are waking from their ancient gardens. Can a lowly courier save the kingdom?
Rune Knights
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for GUARDS! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with GUARDS!.
Rune Knights is a cooperative action RPG focused on customization, crafting, and combat. Customize your character's aesthetics, stats, gameplay, and gear as you battle through procedurally generated and hand-crafted levels with your allies.
DAIMON BLADES
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with GUARDS!.
Ranked #8 for GUARDS! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with GUARDS!.
From the creators of E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy, a cult cyberpunk RPG. Daimon Blades is a brutal first person slasher that combines the depth of action RPGs and replayability of roguelites. Launch expeditions solo or up to 4 players, and survive the many horrors of the Daimon Realm.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below GUARDS! at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under GUARDS! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with GUARDS!.
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 GUARDS! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with GUARDS!.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under GUARDS! on Steam right now. Shares Action with GUARDS!.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under GUARDS! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with GUARDS!.
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 GUARDS! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with GUARDS!.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under GUARDS! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with GUARDS!.
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 GUARDS! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with GUARDS!.
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 GUARDS! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with GUARDS!.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with GUARDS!.
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 GUARDS!.
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 GUARDS!.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 GUARDS!.
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 GUARDS!.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with GUARDS!.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with GUARDS!.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with GUARDS!.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about GUARDS!
- Does GUARDS! run on Steam Deck?
- GUARDS! 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 GUARDS! cost?
- GUARDS! is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does GUARDS! have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — GUARDS! supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to GUARDS!?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside GUARDS! are PILGRIM, Dungeons Deep, SPACE HUG-DUNG.
- Who developed GUARDS!?
- GUARDS! was developed by WYLDERZONE, Lowkey GameDev and published by WYLDERZONE.
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 GUARDS!.
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