Games like Astrum Vanguard
If Astrum Vanguard is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space Bross, Brain Damage and Ark Odyssey — 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 Astrum Vanguard: In Astrum Vanguard, a 2D horde-survival with bullet hell components, you pilot and upgrade your spaceship to defeat countless alien creatures. Survive the endless onslaught in the cosmic battlefield!
Players who liked Astrum Vanguard also play
Steam players who put hours into Astrum Vanguard 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 Bross
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Top pick for Astrum Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Astrum Vanguard.
Your chicken has been kidnapped, and that’s all it takes to send a retired astronaut into full galactic mayhem. Space Bross is a hand-drawn 2.5D tower defense & action roguelite where you’ll build bases, fend off alien hordes, and blast your way across planets to bring your feathery friend back.
Brain Damage
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Astrum Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Astrum Vanguard.
Challenge your skills and push your limits in Brain Damage, the intense 2D action roguelite shooter with wave-based gameplay. With each upgrade, brain damage increases, making the game more challenging as you progress. Push the game to its limits. Can you break the game before it breaks you?
Ark Odyssey
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Astrum Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Astrum Vanguard.
Ark Odyssey is a top-down arcade shooter that lets you command an army of starships to fight against the force of void! Gather your fleet into formations, and build your team of evolving synergistic compositions. Order your army of Starforce through space and protect the cosmos!
BALL x PIT
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Ranked #4 for Astrum Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Astrum Vanguard.
BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resources and recruit unique heroes.
Destropolis
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Ranked #5 for Astrum Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Astrum Vanguard.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
Demon Hunt
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Ranked #6 for Astrum Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Astrum Vanguard.
Battle through demon-infested lands in this fast-paced rogue-lite bullet-heaven. Pick unique weapons with powerful evolutions, and hunt down ancient demons in intense boss fights. Loot, upgrade, and unlock new ways to grow stronger after every hunt!
20 Minutes Till Dawn
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Ranked #7 for Astrum Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Astrum Vanguard.
20 Minutes Till Dawn is a survival roguelite where endless hordes of creatures lurk from the dark. Craft an array of overpowering builds and eradicate waves of Lovecraftian nightmares. Will you be able to survive the night?
Star Survivor
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Ranked #8 for Astrum Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Astrum Vanguard.
Star Survivor is a space-themed survival game that blends intense deckbuilding strategy. Pilot humanity's last spaceship through the vast galaxy, Unlock powerful weapon combos, collect card modules, and craft unique builds. As the enemy swarms grow denser, will you be the last one standing?
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 with Astrum Vanguard.
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 Astrum Vanguard.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Astrum 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?
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 Astrum Vanguard.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Astrum Vanguard.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Astrum 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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Astrum 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.
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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.
BALL x PIT
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Astrum Vanguard.
BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resources and recruit unique heroes.
Destropolis
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Astrum Vanguard.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
20 Minutes Till Dawn
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Astrum Vanguard.
20 Minutes Till Dawn is a survival roguelite where endless hordes of creatures lurk from the dark. Craft an array of overpowering builds and eradicate waves of Lovecraftian nightmares. Will you be able to survive the night?
Frequently asked about Astrum Vanguard
- What games are most similar to Astrum Vanguard?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Astrum Vanguard are Space Bross, Brain Damage, Ark Odyssey.
- Who developed Astrum Vanguard?
- Astrum Vanguard was developed by JCW.
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 Astrum Vanguard.
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