Games like Astral Vangard
If Astral Vangard is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space Strider, Astebreed: Definitive Edition and ARMED SEVEN — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Astral Vangard: Pilot your Vangard and battling against various enemies and bosses. Astral Vangard is a casual game with rogue-like elements in a futuristic world filled with Mecha. You can choose their own Vangard with different start weapon and characteristics, improving their abilities as they advance.
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Steam players who put hours into Astral Vangard 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.
Space Strider
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Top pick for Astral Vangard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
Space Strider is a 2D Sidescroller Shoot 'em up with Roguelite elements, where you beat hordes of enemies and defeat unique bosses. Unlock, upgrade and level up your Spaceships to become the ultimate Space Strider!
Astebreed: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Astral Vangard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
Climb into the cockpit of an otherworldly war machine and fly into battle against a horrifying alien race bent on eradicating humanity to preserve their own civilization.
ARMED SEVEN
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Astral Vangard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
The year is 1989. 12 years have passed since the Gogoh Army’s invasion of Earth. Exposure to alien technology during the war enabled Earth’s own technologies to take massive leaps forward. International conflict that was previously rife in the history of mankind fell to an all-time low, and the Earth Federation was established as a...
CRYPTARK
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Astral Vangard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
GALAK-Z
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Astral Vangard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
Brand New features!! The Void DLC offers endless gameplay, Online Leaderboards, and a Daily Challenge that allows players to compete worldwide for the top score. Anime inspired 2D space combat simulation at its best! GALAK-Z is a modern, A.I.
Whisker Squadron: Survivor
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Astral Vangard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
A smooth roguelite shooter from the creators of RACE THE SUN, featuring a voiced cast of feline pilots in a dramatic showdown against corporate-powered robots called The Swarm. Features a 3-act campaign with branching paths, epic bosses, and a wide arsenal of pilots, ships, and weapons.
Intrusion 2
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Ranked #7 for Astral Vangard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
"This is some of the most fun I've had with a game so far this year, and it will go down as one of the best side-scrolling shooters of all time." - 9/10, Destructoid
Oblivion Override
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Astral Vangard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
An intense, hardcore action side-scroller. Maneuver as a ninja killerbot through dynamic wastelands with 26+ specialized weapons. Dodge, dash, and dominate. A homage to Metroidvania and Roguelike: customize atomic evolution, breach intricate alert levels to decrypt the Oblivion Code...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Astral Vangard at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Astral Vangard on Steam right now. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Astral Vangard on Steam right now. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under Astral Vangard on Steam right now. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Astral Vangard on Steam right now. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
TYRONE vs COPS
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Priced ~67% under Astral Vangard on Steam right now. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Orbt XL
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Priced ~67% under Astral Vangard on Steam right now. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
Defy gravity in Orbt XL! A fast-paced, addictive, 'just-one-more-round' arcade score chaser. Stay in orbit, dodge obstacles, and rack up points, the closer you are to the black hole, the higher your score! Easy to learn, tough to master, and perfect for quick play sessions while waiting in queue.
Toree 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Astral Vangard on Steam right now. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
A bite-sized 3D Platformer sequel with more focus on the things people enjoyed in the first game like fast gameplay, flow focused levels and cute costumes (two this time).
UBERMOSH Vol.5
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Astral Vangard on Steam right now. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
The fifth volume of the arcade series UBERMOSH.
Free alternatives
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
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.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
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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.
Astebreed: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
Climb into the cockpit of an otherworldly war machine and fly into battle against a horrifying alien race bent on eradicating humanity to preserve their own civilization.
ARMED SEVEN
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
The year is 1989. 12 years have passed since the Gogoh Army’s invasion of Earth. Exposure to alien technology during the war enabled Earth’s own technologies to take massive leaps forward. International conflict that was previously rife in the history of mankind fell to an all-time low, and the Earth Federation was established as a...
CRYPTARK
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
Whisker Squadron: Survivor
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Astral Vangard.
A smooth roguelite shooter from the creators of RACE THE SUN, featuring a voiced cast of feline pilots in a dramatic showdown against corporate-powered robots called The Swarm. Features a 3-act campaign with branching paths, epic bosses, and a wide arsenal of pilots, ships, and weapons.
Frequently asked about Astral Vangard
- How much does Astral Vangard cost?
- Astral Vangard is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Astral Vangard?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Astral Vangard are Space Strider, Astebreed: Definitive Edition, ARMED SEVEN.
- Who developed Astral Vangard?
- Astral Vangard was developed by Mithronix Games.
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