Games like Water Margin: Defiance
If Water Margin: Defiance is your kind of game, the closest matches are Supreme Heroes, Phantom Blade Zero and Project Glitch — 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, or strike unseen from the shadows. Step into a world where legend and reality intertwine.
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Supreme Heroes
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Top pick 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.
Phantom Blade Zero
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Second-strongest match for Water Margin: Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Water Margin: Defiance.
S-GAME presents Phantom Blade Zero, a fusion of classic Wuxia storytelling and exhilarating action powered by Unreal Engine 5. You play as Soul, a warrior with only sixty-six days left to live. Fend off assassins, unravel world-ending conspiracies, and defend your values with your life.
Project Glitch
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Third-strongest match for Water Margin: Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Water Margin: Defiance.
The result of a 6-month student project. A dangerous oil called Glitch is corrupting humans into mindless robots. Fight your way to the mountain's peak and destroy the source of the corruption.
Hemlon the Grey
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Ranked #4 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.
A Whisper of Fall: Jinyiwei
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Ranked #5 for Water Margin: Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Water Margin: Defiance.
"A Whisper of Fall: Jinyiwei" is an ARPG set in the Ming Dynasty. Play as a Jinyiwei (Imperial Guard) with martial art, lightness skill and the unique deduction ability, across shifting timelines and sandbox levels to weave the destiny of yourself and the dynasty.
Ninja Simulator
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Ranked #6 for Water Margin: Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Water Margin: Defiance.
Ninja Simulator is an action-adventure stealth game, which takes place in feudal Japan. You will play as a mercenary hired for missions of infiltration, espionage and elimination. Your actions will strenghten or overthrow rival clans and change the course of history.
Crimson Moon
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Ranked #7 for Water Margin: Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Water Margin: Defiance.
You are Nephilim: a human-angel hybrid forged to defend humanity with supernatural powers. Fight solo or with a friend to annihilate demons and challenge brutal bosses in relentless melée combat. Rise, violent one. The prophecy is yours to fulfill.
Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT
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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 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.
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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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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 Supreme Heroes, Phantom Blade Zero, Project Glitch.
- Who developed Water Margin: Defiance?
- Water Margin: Defiance was developed by PINE WHISPER.
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