Games like Guardian Grids
If Guardian Grids is your kind of game, the closest matches are Variables 2, Demeo: PC Edition and Rising Lords — 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 Guardian Grids: A simple and fun tower defense game! Combining light card elements with the fun of randomness.
Players who liked Guardian Grids also play
Steam players who put hours into Guardian Grids 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.
Variables 2
WHY THIS
Top pick for Guardian Grids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardian Grids.
After two years of precipitation, we re-made this variable sequel after thinking about it! Variable 2 is a unique stand-alone tower defense game. We have enriched the building and elements of tower defense, and the experience in the game can be changed according to your ideas!
Demeo: PC Edition
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Guardian Grids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardian Grids.
It’s dangerous to go alone! Grab your friends and assemble a party, because plumbing the depths of Demeo requires strategy, cunning, and teamwork. An award-winning cooperative tabletop adventure for up to four players.
Rising Lords
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Guardian Grids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardian Grids.
Rising Lords is a medieval turn-based strategy game with card and board game elements. Send your serfs to fight and die in your name... or let them prosper, and use them to your advantage!
Winter Falling: Battle Tactics
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Guardian Grids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardian Grids.
Lead troops in tense tactical battles, just you and your brain against the dying world. Can you save it? Manage a mercenary company, scavenge supplies, build an army. Go on a quest! Burn down a village or two... Explore the rich medieval fantasy world in a mix of LOTR, Warhammer, FTL and Total War.
希望之城 The City Of Hope
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Guardian Grids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardian Grids.
A light city-building game that combines elements of card games and tower defense, where players must survive daily enemy attacks and gradually grow their strength to ultimately defeat powerful invaders.
EcoGnomix
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Guardian Grids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardian Grids.
A quirky mix of roguelite and city builder. Build a lively little city above, by looting mystical caves with a team of gnomes below! Use multiple runs to unlock upgrades and abilities to help your gnomes venture deeper into the dangerous underground.
Into the Breach
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Guardian Grids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardian Grids.
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.
Warriors of the Nile
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Guardian Grids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardian Grids.
Choose skill tablets to build your unique squad. Show your tactics in fast-paced battles. Lead the warriors blessed by the Egyptian gods to challenge random levels and powerful bosses. Defeat the Serpent Apophis and bring back the sun.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Guardian Grids at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Guardian Grids on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guardian Grids.
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 ~60% under Guardian Grids on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guardian Grids.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Guardian Grids on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guardian Grids.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Guardian Grids on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Guardian Grids.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Guardian Grids on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Guardian Grids.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Guardian Grids on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Guardian Grids.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Guardian Grids on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardian Grids.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Guardian Grids on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guardian Grids.
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?
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 Guardian Grids.
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?
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guardian Grids.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Guardian Grids.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guardian Grids.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Guardian Grids.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardian Grids.
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!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guardian Grids.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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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.
Demeo: PC Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardian Grids.
It’s dangerous to go alone! Grab your friends and assemble a party, because plumbing the depths of Demeo requires strategy, cunning, and teamwork. An award-winning cooperative tabletop adventure for up to four players.
EcoGnomix
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardian Grids.
A quirky mix of roguelite and city builder. Build a lively little city above, by looting mystical caves with a team of gnomes below! Use multiple runs to unlock upgrades and abilities to help your gnomes venture deeper into the dangerous underground.
Into the Breach
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardian Grids.
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.
Frequently asked about Guardian Grids
- How much does Guardian Grids cost?
- Guardian Grids is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Guardian Grids?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Guardian Grids are Variables 2, Demeo: PC Edition, Rising Lords.
- Who developed Guardian Grids?
- Guardian Grids was developed by YogurtGames.
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