Games like Gate Guardian
If Gate Guardian is your kind of game, the closest matches are Heretic's Fork, Magicraft and スペルトナエル — 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 Gate Guardian: Gate Guardian is a fantasy roguelite with a deep spell-crafting. Take advantage of unimaginable freedom in creating your magic spells. Build perfect combinations of skills, change and modify them. Defend Life and Survive Death!
Players who liked Gate Guardian also play
Steam players who put hours into Gate Guardian 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.
Heretic's Fork
WHY THIS
Top pick for Gate Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Gate Guardian.
Dear candidate, we are pleased to invite you to take up the position of manager of Hell. You will punish sinners by using our deck-building computer system to construct hellish towers capable of keeping the endless hordes of the underworld in check. Best of luck!
Magicraft
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Gate Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Gate Guardian.
"Magicraft" is a Roguelike game that uses a variety of spells to match unimaginable spell effects, and the construction of ultra-high degrees of freedom cannot even be exhausted by developers.
スペルトナエル
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Gate Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gate Guardian.
Strategic roguelike in which you physically move around the on-screen keyboard and continue to cast magic spells while avoiding a barrage of bullets
Loop Hero
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Gate Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gate Guardian.
The Lich has thrown the world into a timeless loop and plunged its inhabitants into never ending chaos. Wield an expanding deck of mystical cards to place enemies, buildings, and terrain along each unique expedition loop for the brave hero.
FatSheep Crisis
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Ranked #5 for Gate Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gate Guardian.
Fat Sheep Town has monsters! Use skills to defeat them. Plugins help warriors survive. Many maps have risks and rewards. Pick an occupation and weapons. Level up weapons. Combine skills, plugins and weapons. Defeat the villain!
Necrosmith
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Gate Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gate Guardian.
A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.
FORCED SHOWDOWN
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Gate Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gate Guardian.
Deckbuilding empowers this challenging bullet hell adventure! Each character is a unique experience: Choose a deck of unlockable cards to boost you in new ways every battle - "My whirlwind shoots fireballs!?". Battle hordes of brutal foes to become a superstar in C-SAR’s ever-changing game show.
Black Book
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Ranked #8 for Gate Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gate Guardian.
“Black Book” is a dark RPG Adventure, based on Slavic myths, in which you play as a young sorceress. Fight evil forces in card-based battles and explore the world, where humans live alongside mythological creatures.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gate Guardian at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Gate Guardian on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gate Guardian.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Gate Guardian on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Gate Guardian.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~63% under Gate Guardian on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gate Guardian.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
shapez
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Priced ~75% under Gate Guardian on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gate Guardian.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~50% under Gate Guardian on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Gate Guardian.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Gate Guardian on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Gate Guardian.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~50% under Gate Guardian on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Gate Guardian.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~75% under Gate Guardian on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gate Guardian.
"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!
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 Indie with Gate Guardian.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gate Guardian.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Gate Guardian.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Gate Guardian.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gate Guardian.
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
WHY THIS
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!
Floating Point
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gate Guardian.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
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Frequently asked about Gate Guardian
- How much does Gate Guardian cost?
- Gate Guardian is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Gate Guardian?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gate Guardian are Heretic's Fork, Magicraft, スペルトナエル.
- Who developed Gate Guardian?
- Gate Guardian was developed by Dmitriy Zakharov, Andrey Zakharov and published by Andrey Zakharov.
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 Gate Guardian.
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