Games like OPEN GUARD
If OPEN GUARD is your kind of game, the closest matches are Footy Manager, Elite MMA Manager and Brick and Banner: College Football Dynasty — 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.
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Players who liked OPEN GUARD also play
Steam players who put hours into OPEN GUARD 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.
Footy Manager
WHY THIS
Top pick for OPEN GUARD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with OPEN GUARD.
Take charge of a football club and answer for everything: sign players in a market where clubs haggle for days, balance the wage bill against the board's demands, and steer matches live from the touchline. 27 leagues, 690 clubs, one season at a time.
Elite MMA Manager
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for OPEN GUARD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with OPEN GUARD.
Can you shape the careers of future MMA Legends? Start with nothing. Build a dynasty. Navigate the politics, egos, and brutal economics of professional MMA. Management game where you sign fighters as clients, and your job is to maximize their success.
Brick and Banner: College Football Dynasty
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for OPEN GUARD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with OPEN GUARD.
A college football dynasty sim where you grow your coaching tree, not just the program. Start at a 3,000-seat Division III school, see your game plan execute or call the plays yourself. Your coordinators become your future head coaches, and grow one living world across three divisions.
Tapout - MMA Tactics
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for OPEN GUARD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with OPEN GUARD.
A tactical turn-based MMA simulation with (optional auto-battle) and perma-death. From your backyard to a world title. Recruit Fighters, Assign Perks, Train Stats, Build Synergies, Manage Injuries, Unlock strategies, Upgrade your Gym, Bribe the Commission and create roster of MMA Champions.
Sim: World Cup Manager
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for OPEN GUARD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with OPEN GUARD.
Take charge of your nation from a world of 202 teams and chase international glory. Build your squad, master deep tactics and live sideline shouts, unearth wonderkids in your national youth academy, and battle through the World Cup and Continental Championships in a deep football management sim.
Road to Omaha: College Baseball Dynasty
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for OPEN GUARD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with OPEN GUARD.
A deep college baseball dynasty management sim where you build a program across endless seasons: recruit, set lineups and rotations, hire staff, manage schedules, develop players, and play or sim every game pitch by pitch. Can you become the greatest coach of all time?
Sim: Heavyweight Boxing Champion
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for OPEN GUARD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with OPEN GUARD.
Manage a heavyweight boxer from pro debut to undisputed champion — or play as one of the 300 greatest of all time. 2,500 real fighters from 1880 to 2026, 4 world titles, 7 regional belts, live round-by-round commentary, rivalries, and a career mode spanning 1,000+ years. Unify them all.
MMA Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for OPEN GUARD fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with OPEN GUARD.
Manage your own gym, train fighters and chase championships! Control every aspect of your fighter's training to build the perfect weapon - all while expanding your roster to dominate the competition.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below OPEN GUARD at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under OPEN GUARD on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with OPEN GUARD.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under OPEN GUARD on Steam right now. Shares Indie with OPEN GUARD.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under OPEN GUARD on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with OPEN GUARD.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under OPEN GUARD on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with OPEN GUARD.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under OPEN GUARD on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with OPEN GUARD.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under OPEN GUARD on Steam right now. Shares Indie with OPEN GUARD.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~91% under OPEN GUARD on Steam right now. Shares Indie with OPEN GUARD.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under OPEN GUARD on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with OPEN GUARD.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with OPEN GUARD.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with OPEN GUARD.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
No Results Found
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with OPEN GUARD.
Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with OPEN GUARD.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with OPEN GUARD.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with OPEN GUARD.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
Aimlabs
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with OPEN GUARD.
Aimlabs is the aim trainer of choice for over 45 Million players, from beginners to esports pros. Our unique aim analysis optimizes your gameplay, targets your weaknesses & builds key skills for any FPS game! Time to warm up with our unlimited scenarios & rank up in-game!
Clicker Heroes
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with OPEN GUARD.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
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Frequently asked about OPEN GUARD
- How much does OPEN GUARD cost?
- OPEN GUARD is listed on Steam at 10.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to OPEN GUARD?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside OPEN GUARD are Footy Manager, Elite MMA Manager, Brick and Banner: College Football Dynasty.
- Who developed OPEN GUARD?
- OPEN GUARD was developed by Goyski.
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 OPEN GUARD.
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