Games like Elemental Vanguard
If Elemental Vanguard is your kind of game, the closest matches are Card Slay, Wuxing - Elemental Array Poker and Jack Pottwin: House of Odds — 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 Elemental Vanguard: Elemental Vanguard is a roguelike deckbuilder where elemental characters, gear, and skills form powerful hands. Build bigger combos, enhance your deck with item cards and relics, stack massive damage multipliers, and crush enemies across a fantastical journey.
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Card Slay
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Top pick for Elemental Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elemental Vanguard.
The poker roguelike where the House fights back. Chase the flush, sweat the last discard, then slam it down and watch the damage hit: red suits strike, black suits shield. The monsters read your hand, call your ranks and cheat, so stack your ritual deck, out-cheat them, and slay your fate.
Wuxing - Elemental Array Poker
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Second-strongest match for Elemental Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elemental Vanguard.
Poker hands aren't just played here — they're placed. Drop each card onto a 3×3 altar where the Five Elements feed and fight their neighbors, cascading multipliers across the board. A roguelike deckbuilder about space, not sequence.
Jack Pottwin: House of Odds
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Third-strongest match for Elemental Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elemental Vanguard.
Fight your way up a 10-story casino tower to wake from a fever dream in this Roguelike Deckbuilder. Craft your deck, modify runs with lucky coins, and control the Odds. Fuse cards to build high value attacks, trigger poker combos to add powerful combat traits to your cards.
Devil Tower Note
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Ranked #4 for Elemental Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elemental Vanguard.
Instant-response Combat Card Game, Side-scrolling Card Magic Tower, a roguelike "Magic Tower" single-player game that blends "platform jumping" and "card battles"! Plan your route and encounter enemies through platform jumping, then defeat them with strategic card duels!
Choppy Waters
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Ranked #5 for Elemental Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elemental Vanguard.
Sail through pirate-infested waters in this unconventional roguelike deckbuilder. Collect ingredients, craft your own sushi cards, and feed them to hungry pirates in tactical turn-based encounters. Combine active, passive, and reactive abilities to satisfy unruly customers and maximize profits.
Cardtonia
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Ranked #6 for Elemental Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elemental Vanguard.
A deckbuilding card game. Summon minions, sacrifice wounded ones to summon stronger minions, use their effects to grow fast, and defeat your opponent within a set number of turns. Keep upgrading your minions, discover Treasures, build unique decks, and aim to reach the top of Diamond Town!
Archon Soul
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Ranked #7 for Elemental Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Elemental Vanguard.
Archon Soul is a 2D roguelike dice-builder where you create powerful dice using swappable faces, runes, and bodies with unique effects. Draft spells, craft powerful synergies, defeat challenging enemies, and conquer the Archon's palace.
Black Jacket
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Ranked #8 for Elemental Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elemental Vanguard.
Gamble your way out of hell in this blackjack-inspired rogue-lite deckbuilder. Play powerful card combos or cheat to outwit your opponents and earn your freedom. Win their Soul coins! Bribe the ferryman! And uncover the story of those who stand in your way.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Elemental Vanguard.
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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Elemental Vanguard.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Elemental Vanguard.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Elemental Vanguard.
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.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Elemental Vanguard.
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 with Elemental Vanguard.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Elemental Vanguard.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elemental Vanguard.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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- What games are most similar to Elemental Vanguard?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Elemental Vanguard are Card Slay, Wuxing - Elemental Array Poker, Jack Pottwin: House of Odds.
- Who developed Elemental Vanguard?
- Elemental Vanguard was developed by ZHONGZHENG COTTAGE.
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