Games like Vagante
If Vagante is your kind of game, the closest matches are Streets of Rogue, Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos and Barony — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its fun multiplayer lobbies, high skill cap and rewarding gameplay. 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 →Vagante is an action roguelike platformer developed by Nuke Nine that emphasizes procedural generation and permanent death. Players select from multiple character classes and navigate through randomly generated environments, collecting loot and customizing their abilities as they progress. The game supports local co-operative multiplayer, allowing up to four players to team up, and is marked as playable on Steam Deck. Reviewers note the high skill ceiling and rewarding nature of its progression systems, with players describing the experience as both challenging and punishing. Currently priced at $14.99, the title has received positive feedback from the community, holding a 90% approval rating based on over 2,500 Steam reviews.
About Vagante: Vagante is an action-packed platformer that features permanent death and procedurally generated levels. Play cooperatively with friends both locally and online, or adventure solo in this challenging roguelike-inspired game.
Players who liked Vagante also play
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Streets of Rogue
WHY THIS
Shares multiplayer co op, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Vagante.
Top pick for Vagante fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Vagante.
Second-strongest match for Vagante fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
Rogue Heroes is a topdown, roguelite adventure game inspired by the Zelda franchise. Play solo or team up with your friends to combat procedurally generated dungeons and take down the evil Titans that threaten to overwhelm the land of Tasos!
Barony
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Vagante.
Third-strongest match for Vagante fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
Barony is the premier first-person roguelike with cooperative play! Adventure alone, or gather a party with iconic and unusual RPG classes to face off against the brutal dungeons. Test your resourcefulness, wits, and friendships, on your quest to lift the evil lich's curse!
Wizard of Legend
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Vagante.
Ranked #4 for Vagante fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
Wizard of Legend is a no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that features over a hundred unique spells and relics!
Caveblazers
WHY THIS
Shares a punishing mood with Vagante.
Ranked #5 for Vagante fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Vagante fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Vagante.
Ranked #7 for Vagante fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
Catacomb Kids
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Vagante fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
Catacomb Kids is a brutal platformer roguelike that pits you against the deadly Catacombs aided only by magic, steel, and your quick reflexes. Traverse procedurally generated dungeons and hack, slash, burn, and blast your way through hordes of things that want to kill you.
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Catacomb Kids
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Vagante cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
Catacomb Kids is a brutal platformer roguelike that pits you against the deadly Catacombs aided only by magic, steel, and your quick reflexes. Traverse procedurally generated dungeons and hack, slash, burn, and blast your way through hordes of things that want to kill you.
Spelunky
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a punishing mood with Vagante.
Reviewers of Vagante cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Vagante.
Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.
Spirits Abyss
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Vagante.
Reviewers of Vagante cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
Spirits Abyss is a roguelite platformer with destructible terrain. Cast into the Abysm you must explore its diverse depths battling phantasmic meanies and plundering its useful treasures to find a way home... but does something nestle beyond the realmic veil of death?
Noita
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Vagante.
Reviewers of Vagante cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Caveblazers
WHY THIS
Shares a punishing mood with Vagante.
Reviewers of Vagante cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
Barony
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Vagante.
Reviewers of Vagante cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
Barony is the premier first-person roguelike with cooperative play! Adventure alone, or gather a party with iconic and unusual RPG classes to face off against the brutal dungeons. Test your resourcefulness, wits, and friendships, on your quest to lift the evil lich's curse!
Rogue Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a punishing mood with Vagante.
Reviewers of Vagante cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
Cave Story+
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Vagante cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Vagante at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Vagante on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vagante.
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 ~67% under Vagante on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Vagante on Steam right now. Shares Action with Vagante.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Vagante on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Vagante on Steam right now. Shares Action with Vagante.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Vagante on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vagante.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Vagante on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vagante.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Vagante on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vagante.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vagante.
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 Vagante.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vagante.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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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.
Barony
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Vagante.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
Barony is the premier first-person roguelike with cooperative play! Adventure alone, or gather a party with iconic and unusual RPG classes to face off against the brutal dungeons. Test your resourcefulness, wits, and friendships, on your quest to lift the evil lich's curse!
Wizard of Legend
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Vagante.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
Wizard of Legend is a no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that features over a hundred unique spells and relics!
Caveblazers
WHY THIS
Shares a punishing mood with Vagante.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Vagante.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
Catacomb Kids
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Vagante.
Catacomb Kids is a brutal platformer roguelike that pits you against the deadly Catacombs aided only by magic, steel, and your quick reflexes. Traverse procedurally generated dungeons and hack, slash, burn, and blast your way through hordes of things that want to kill you.
Frequently asked about Vagante
- Does Vagante run on Steam Deck?
- Vagante 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 Vagante cost?
- Vagante is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Vagante have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Vagante supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Vagante?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vagante are Streets of Rogue, Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos, Barony.
- Who developed Vagante?
- Vagante was developed by Nuke Nine.
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