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Games like Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler

If Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler is your kind of game, the closest matches are Book of Fei, Rejected Draft and Hollowspire — 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 Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler: An idle auto battler where your squad fights continuously while you optimize upgrades, trigger hero actives, and break through boss phases.

2026ActionCasual2.69 USDWindowsby Beep2Bleep
Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler 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. Book of Fei

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    Lead adorable warriors to form an adventure team to work and adventure on the computer desktop. Defeat the warriors to save the world. Rich nurturing and collection elements, idle and slack off to earn money and fight monsters!

    2026IndieRPGCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Rejected Draft

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    You are a flawed doodle thrown in the trash. Battle rival sketches in an idle climb for revenge. Every enemy is drawn by community artists, with alternate versions and direct credits. In an unusual twist on builds, choose which enemies appear in your world, then defeat them to absorb their powers.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Hollowspire

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    A chill clicker-idle game where you dig, recruit and manage miners, and uncover buried upgrades deep underground.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  4. Restoration: Chronicles of Survival

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    Rebuild a fallen kingdom in a cozy idle-RPG. An economy that earns while you sleep, a hero who raids for loot and gear, and endless prestige. No energy limits. No ads. No pay-to-win.

    2026IndieCasual1.79 USDSteam ↗
  5. Authorisation Engine

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    Turn a payment desk into a global authorisation network in this offline incremental strategy game about capacity, compute, mandates, quantum audits, and synthetic jurisdictions.

    2026Casual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Loop Tower

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    Loop Tower tells the story of adventurers climbing an endless tower. Place it on a corner of your desktop and help them continue their ascent. Experience a fresh blend of desktop idle gameplay + roguelike + RPG right now!

    IndieSimulationRPGSteam ↗
  7. EmergenHex

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Solve combat puzzles with your build-crafted loadout, automate conquered nodes across a haunted hex map for loot, and upgrade your skills, passives, and gear. Master 60+ handcrafted encounters, then enter a harder phase where the rules change for all encounters!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  8. Everdeep Idle

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Everdeep Idle is a dark-fantasy idle ARPG where combat happens automatically and your build does the real work. Choose from four classes, chase randomized loot, collect 50+ pets, risk powerful gear through crafting, and push through bosses, Delves, Trials, and long-term endgame progression.

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler on Steam right now. Shares Action with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    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. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    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.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    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.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    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. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler on Steam right now. Shares Action with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    "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 ↗
  6. Insaniquarium Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.

    2006Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Bejeweled® 3

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.

    2010StrategyCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    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 ↗
  2. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Casual with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. erdetspill

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    Bestefar vil ha 2 is. Du må skaffe de. Det viser seg å være mer komplisert enn du trodde. Et absurd førstepersons-eventyrspill der du navigerer norsk byråkrati, snakker med rare folk og løser meningsløse oppdrag - i en liten norsk bygd.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  4. Rec Room

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    Rec Room is the best place to build and play games together. Party up with friends from all around the world to chat, hang out, explore MILLIONS of player-created rooms, or build something new and amazing to share with us all.

    2021AdventureMassively MultiplayerFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Clicker Heroes

    WHY THIS

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

    Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.

    2015StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Spiral Knights

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    Join the ranks of the Spiral Knights. Stranded on an alien world, you must explore the ever-changing Clockworks beneath its surface.

    2011ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Aperture Desk Job

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Casual with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    Introducing Aperture Desk Job — a free playable short made for the Steam Deck, set in the universe of the modestly popular Portal games.

    2022ActionAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. AdventureQuest 3D

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    The Void King is raising an army in secret. Death has chosen you as his champion to bring him down. Adventure & quest alongside your friends in this bizarre cross-platform MMORPG from the creators of the original, and comically-redundantly named... AdventureQuest! Weekly releases!

    2022ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Beep2Bleep

Other recommendable Steam games by Beep2Bleep, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Home Plate Baseball

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Beep2Bleep, the studio behind Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    Home Plate Baseball is a baseball simulator and mini-game collection​. 3 Inning Baseball, Catching, Umpiring, and Home Run Derby are all included. Hard mode increases pitch speed to over 100 MPH.

    2019SportsSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Bounty For Sharks

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Beep2Bleep, the studio behind Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler. Shares Action with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    Kill Sharks for bounty, spend to upgrade.

    2020ActionIndie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Only Jump!

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Beep2Bleep, the studio behind Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler. Shares Action with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    Only Jump is a timed vertical climber, jump by pressing space or A on your controller. Race to get to the top in the fastest time.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Bleeping Spaceships

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Beep2Bleep, the studio behind Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler. Shares Action with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    A fast-paced bullet-hell where your room becomes the battlefield!

    2026ActionIndie6.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Deepcore

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Beep2Bleep, the studio behind Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler. Shares Action and Casual with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    A run-based mining incremental where you steer a drill rig, bank ore, unlock deeper tiers, and turn fast dives into permanent upgrades.

    2026ActionRPGCasual1.79 USDSteam ↗
  6. BleepWare Incrementals

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Beep2Bleep, the studio behind Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler. Shares Action with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    Five complete incremental games, plus a crossover that ties them together. Command a growing war machine, dig ever deeper for resources, survive escalating defense battles, embrace chaotic absurdity, and fish through creeping darkness in one strange collection of number-goes-up adventures.

    2026ActionSportsIndie4.49 USDSteam ↗
  7. Data Breach Inc.

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Beep2Bleep, the studio behind Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler. Shares Action with Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler.

    Pilot a breach rig into hostile corporate infrastructure. Mine the firewall, crack daemon cores, extract your haul, and buy permanent upgrades between sorties.

    ActionIndieSimulationSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler

How much does Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler cost?
Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler is listed on Steam at 2.69 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler are Book of Fei, Rejected Draft, Hollowspire.
Who developed Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler?
Vanguard - Idle Auto Battler was developed by Beep2Bleep.

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