Games like Scrap Vanguard
If Scrap Vanguard is your kind of game, the closest matches are BLIGHT SWARM, ShootyCraft and Sky Bomber — 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 Scrap Vanguard: You are a stranded pilot trapped under a domed Earth. Defend your base using alien scrap, fight off waves of invaders, and turn their scrap into powerful weapons, upgrades, and buildings to save the planet.
Players who liked Scrap Vanguard also play
Steam players who put hours into Scrap Vanguard 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.
BLIGHT SWARM
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Top pick for Scrap Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Scrap Vanguard.
BLIGHT SWARM is horde-building action roguelite where you invade Earth as an alien hivemind and run a planetary infection campaign. Turn civilians into zombies, merge your minions into stronger abominations, evolve your Beast, and spread the Blight across the globe.
ShootyCraft
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Second-strongest match for Scrap Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Vanguard.
Massive online space battles with building and crafting. Up to 100 players in an arena. Solo and team game modes.
Sky Bomber
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Scrap Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Scrap Vanguard.
Fly your warplane, bomb enemy stickman bases, and unleash satisfying physics-based destruction. Upgrade your aircraft, master precision bombing, and level everything in your path.
Fuel Needed
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Ranked #4 for Scrap Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Vanguard.
Race against time or other players through difficult levels full of obstacles.
Alpha Terminus
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Ranked #5 for Scrap Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Vanguard.
Your clan plays an important role in the new galactic war. The fate of your mutant clan rests in the hands of you and your fellow fighter pilots...
Star Striker
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Ranked #6 for Scrap Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Scrap Vanguard.
Free-Flight, Arcade Space Shooter, Action Roguelike. Jet through stylized arenas facing increasingly deadly starships while pushing your power to the absolute limits. Use synergistic weapon mods and game-changing relics to bend reality and take down the giant space wrym Digamora or die trying.
ActionSteam ↗Drone Warfare
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Ranked #7 for Scrap Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Vanguard.
Drone Warfare is an action flight sim and tower defense hybrid shoot-em-up. Research upgrades and deploy your tiny honey bee military drone as you attempt to save the last remaining bees from extinction.
Elandrake
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Ranked #8 for Scrap Vanguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Vanguard.
Elandrake is an incremental, twin-stick shooter game where you protect a cosmic entity as it emerges from another reality. Consume matter to gain abilities and use them to blast fleets back to where they came from!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Vanguard.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Electoral Carnage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Scrap Vanguard.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Vanguard.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Scrap Vanguard.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
South Scrimshaw, Part One
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Scrap Vanguard.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Scrap Vanguard.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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Frequently asked about Scrap Vanguard
- What games are most similar to Scrap Vanguard?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Scrap Vanguard are BLIGHT SWARM, ShootyCraft, Sky Bomber.
- Who developed Scrap Vanguard?
- Scrap Vanguard was developed by MB Games.
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