Games like Vanguard Tides
If Vanguard Tides is your kind of game, the closest matches are Slimies, ERLIK and RogueScape — 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!
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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.
ERLIK
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Second-strongest match for Vanguard Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vanguard Tides.
A Turkic folk-horror bullet-heaven roguelite. Every run drifts between two gods; feed Erlik's corruption for savage power and lifesteal, or rise toward Tengri's light for shields and renewal. Every weapon evolves down two opposed paths. Survive the Long Night.
RogueScape
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Third-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.
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!
Approaching Infinity Survivors
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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.
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.
Time Champions
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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.
Recruit units from different historical periods and defend the timeline against alien invaders in this action-roguelike. Mix and match units to discover game-breaking synergies and use hero powers to survive enemy hordes. Unlock new units and evolve them to wreak absolute chaos on the battlefield!
Void Regalia
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Ranked #7 for Vanguard Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Vanguard Tides.
An 8-bit handheld-inspired twin-stick horde survivor where time is your health and failure is inheritance. Bond with Regalia — weapons who remember who they were — and rebuild a realm that forgets itself with every run.
Warhammer Survivors
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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.
Become the embodiment of bullet hell in Warhammer Survivors, a fast-paced roguelite survivors game. Play as characters from the Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer: Age of Sigmar universes, collect and evolve iconic weapons and destroy endless swarms of enemies.
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vanguard Tides.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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.
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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, ERLIK, RogueScape.
- 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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