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Games like Boardguard

If Boardguard is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dungeon Deathball, Into the Breach and Crown Trick — 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.

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About Boardguard: An occult themed turn based strategy game where you fight off waves of possessed entities.

2024StrategyIndie3.99 USDWindowsby Final Offer
Boardguard — Steam game cover

Players who liked Boardguard also play

Steam players who put hours into Boardguard 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.

  1. Dungeon Deathball

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Boardguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boardguard.

    🏆🏀💀 TACTICS, TERROR & TOUCHDOWNS. Turn-based roguelike meets arcade death-sport, where every dungeon is a unique gauntlet of brutal challenges. Can you survive the trials of Dungeon Deathball and win back your freedom?

    2021SportsStrategyIndie4.79 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Into the Breach

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Boardguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boardguard.

    Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Crown Trick

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Boardguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boardguard.

    Enter a labyrinth that moves as you move, where mastering the elements is key to defeating enemies and uncovering the mysteries of this underground world. With a new experience awaiting every time you enter the dungeon, let the power bestowed by the crown guide you in this challenging adventure!

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. The Last Spell

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Boardguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boardguard.

    Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Crowntakers

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Boardguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boardguard.

    Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Boardguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boardguard.

    Veil of the Witch is a roguelite strategy RPG with turn-based combat and branching progression. Set in the world of “Lost Eidolons,” build a nimble squad of five, pick your skills as you level, and adapt to each unique run. May the gods favor the bold and the wise.

    2025StrategyIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Othercide

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Boardguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boardguard.

    As Humanity’s last hope, lead your army to combat in an intricate dance of spectacular actions and counters, using an original Dynamic Timeline System, and face fearsome bosses in epic battles.

    2020StrategyIndie29.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Darkest Dungeon® II

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Boardguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boardguard.

    Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...

    2023StrategyIndieRPG39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Boardguard at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Boardguard on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Boardguard.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Boardguard on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Boardguard.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Boardguard on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Boardguard.

    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.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Boardguard on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boardguard.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Boardguard on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Boardguard.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The NOexistenceN of you AND me

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Boardguard on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Boardguard.

    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".

    2024IndieAdventureRPG1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Boardguard on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Boardguard.

    "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!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Boardguard on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Boardguard.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Boardguard.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Boardguard.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Boardguard.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Boardguard.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Boardguard.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Boardguard.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Control, I'm Not Coming Back

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Boardguard.

    Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boardguard.

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Dungeon Deathball

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boardguard.

    🏆🏀💀 TACTICS, TERROR & TOUCHDOWNS. Turn-based roguelike meets arcade death-sport, where every dungeon is a unique gauntlet of brutal challenges. Can you survive the trials of Dungeon Deathball and win back your freedom?

    2021SportsStrategyIndie4.79 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Into the Breach

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boardguard.

    Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Last Spell

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boardguard.

    Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boardguard.

    Veil of the Witch is a roguelite strategy RPG with turn-based combat and branching progression. Set in the world of “Lost Eidolons,” build a nimble squad of five, pick your skills as you level, and adapt to each unique run. May the gods favor the bold and the wise.

    2025StrategyIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Darkest Dungeon® II

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boardguard.

    Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...

    2023StrategyIndieRPG39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Boardguard

How much does Boardguard cost?
Boardguard is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Boardguard?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Boardguard are Dungeon Deathball, Into the Breach, Crown Trick.
Who developed Boardguard?
Boardguard was developed by Final Offer.

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 Boardguard.

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