Games like Vanguard Tides
If Vanguard Tides is your kind of game, the closest matches are Slimies, RogueScape and Approaching Infinity Survivors — 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 Vanguard Tides: Fight in massive-scale battles where armies paint the battlefield in their color. Captured territory affects both your health and your abilities. Level up your vanguard and your army, defend your castles, and survive the shifting tides of battle to claim ultimate victory!
Players who liked Vanguard Tides also play
Steam players who put hours into Vanguard Tides 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.
Slimies
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Top pick for Vanguard Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vanguard Tides.
Slimies is a top-down action roguelike where you evolve and absorb waves of enemies, growing stronger after each round. Craft your own playstyle by unlocking slimes and items to make a unique build each run.
RogueScape
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Second-strongest match for Vanguard Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Vanguard Tides.
Pick your skills, survive 20-minute runs, open chests, and grow your account in an old-school MMO-inspired survival roguelike.
Approaching Infinity Survivors
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Third-strongest match for Vanguard Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vanguard Tides.
A Bullet-Heaven roguelike in the Approaching Infinity universe with both spaceship and away team missions. The exit of the galaxy's dominant races left a power vacuum that everyone wants to fill. Survive, pick a side, or kill'em all. No time to think when the horde's advancing.
BoomScroll
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Ranked #4 for Vanguard Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vanguard Tides.
Evaporate endless hordes of creatures as you scroll your way to freedom! Grab upgrades, build your arsenal, and scroll at the speed of light to make it as far as you can!
To Kill a God
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Ranked #5 for Vanguard Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vanguard Tides.
Craft your skill tree in this action roguelike where you must utilize skill and creativity to unleash devastating builds, all for one purpose. Break the Cycle. Kill a god.
Together, Against Mork
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Ranked #6 for Vanguard Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vanguard Tides.
Together, Against Mork is a fast-paced single-player game that combines action-roguelike combat with tower-defense strategy. Slay the hordes, build smart defenses, and protect The Crystal at all costs. With every weapon, every hero, every defense—against Mork.
Arcanith
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Ranked #7 for Vanguard Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Vanguard Tides.
Arcanith is a roguelike survivors-like game where you control a wizard and face endless hordes of enemies. Master your incredible powers, evolve your spells, survive the chaos, and become an unstoppable force.
Chrome Survivor
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Ranked #8 for Vanguard Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vanguard Tides.
Make raves safe again! In this bullet heaven roguelite combine weapons into powerful evolutions, collect items to enhance your runs, equip and craft powerful cybernetic augments that change the way you play. Can you complete a 9 modded nightmare difficulty run and become John Cyberpunk?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanguard Tides.
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.
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 Vanguard Tides.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Vanguard Tides.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Vanguard Tides.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanguard Tides.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vanguard Tides.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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 Vanguard Tides.
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Frequently asked about Vanguard Tides
- What games are most similar to Vanguard Tides?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vanguard Tides are Slimies, RogueScape, Approaching Infinity Survivors.
- Who developed Vanguard Tides?
- Vanguard Tides was developed by Conjure Studios LLC.
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 Vanguard Tides.
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