Games like Water Margin: Defiance
If Water Margin: Defiance is your kind of game, the closest matches are Project Glitch, Supreme Heroes and Hemlon the Grey — 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 Water Margin: Defiance: Water Margin: Defiance is an action RPG set in the 14th-century Chinese classic Water Margin (Outlaws of the Marsh). Choose your path between good and evil; fight in fast-paced combat; strike unseen from the shadows. Step into a world where legend and reality intertwine.
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Project Glitch
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Top pick for Water Margin: Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Water Margin: Defiance.
Glitch, a parasitic force, corrupts life into violent machine-like creatures. STRYX survived the transformation, altered but immune. To stop the outbreak, his journey lead him on the tracks of SINGULARITY, the source of it all.
Supreme Heroes
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Second-strongest match for Water Margin: Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Water Margin: Defiance.
Highschool sophomore Jacob suddenly discovers he has super powers and must team up with his best friends to become the 'Elect Few', but convincing them to embrace their powers and save the world is all but easy. Events bring Jacob to battle villainous factions in order to bring peace to the nation.
Hemlon the Grey
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Third-strongest match for Water Margin: Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Water Margin: Defiance.
Hemlon the Grey is a deflection-based 2D Souls-like where life and death are decided by a blade. Follow the story of Hemlon, a half-demon warrior, as she uncovers the dark secrets of the Reinz Republic and the Broken Wings.
UNPAINTED
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Ranked #4 for Water Margin: Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Water Margin: Defiance.
In a world plagued by malformed births, embark on an action-adventure journey across Pictunia and uncover the truth behind The Painter.
Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT
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Ranked #5 for Water Margin: Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Water Margin: Defiance.
A storm is coming. Venture into the complete Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR’S CUT on PC; forge your own path through this open-world action adventure and uncover its hidden wonders. Brought to you by Sucker Punch Productions, Nixxes Software and PlayStation Studios.
Decay of Logos
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Ranked #6 for Water Margin: Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Water Margin: Defiance.
Immerse yourself in the world of Decay Of Logos and unravel its mysteries. Explore old dungeons, battle unforgiving foes and journey through a vibrant interconnected fantasy realm with your mystical elk companion.
Bleak Faith: Forsaken
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Ranked #7 for Water Margin: Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Water Margin: Defiance.
Explore the last remnants of civilization in this vast, unforgiving, and interconnected world. Learn what is left of its history. Discover pockets of natural life in the perpetually expanding Omnistructure. Lose yourself in a journey unlike any other. Find your purpose in the world.
Lords of the Fallen
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Ranked #8 for Water Margin: Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Water Margin: Defiance.
A vast world awaits in the medieval, dark fantasy action-RPG, Lords of the Fallen. As a fabled Dark Crusader, embark on an epic quest to overthrow Adyr, the demon God. The final major update Version 2.5 is out now: features deadlier boss battles and all-new Veteran Mode.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Water Margin: Defiance.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Water Margin: Defiance.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Water Margin: Defiance.
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The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Water Margin: Defiance.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Water Margin: Defiance.
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Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Water Margin: Defiance.
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93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Water Margin: Defiance.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Water Margin: Defiance.
『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.
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- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Water Margin: Defiance are Project Glitch, Supreme Heroes, Hemlon the Grey.
- Who developed Water Margin: Defiance?
- Water Margin: Defiance was developed by PINE WHISPER.
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