Games like Vanguard's Descent
If Vanguard's Descent is your kind of game, the closest matches are Land of the Dead Trees, PinPow and Blood & Dungeon — 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's Descent: A rogue-like RPG focused on player teambuilding, dungeon progression, and a unique spin on action combat. Recruit members of the Vanguard, humanities last hope and journey across various lands to defeat the evil that is the Plagued.
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Land of the Dead Trees
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Top pick for Vanguard's Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vanguard's Descent.
"Lands of the Dead Tree A Rogue-Like / Extraction RPG" Walk the thin line between life and death as you struggle to restore a shattered world. Lands of the Dead Trees draws you into a breathtaking realm beyond your wildest dreams - where danger lurks at every step, and survival demands courage.
PinPow
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Second-strongest match for Vanguard's Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vanguard's Descent.
PinPow is a turn-based roguelike pinball RPG where you play as a hero sucked into an otherworldly pinball machine - battling your way through chaotic dungeons, and enemies to defeat the evil Pinball Wizard. Strategize your shots, upgrade your hero, and bounce your way to victory!
Blood & Dungeon
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Third-strongest match for Vanguard's Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vanguard's Descent.
Blood & Dungeon is an action game that revolves around the struggle of a captured soldier to survive and escape from a dark and blood-scented dungeon
Soul Stream
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Ranked #4 for Vanguard's Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Vanguard's Descent.
Defy the flow of the Soulstream, reach its end, and face the truth. Soulstream — a desktop background idle auto-battler adventure.
Unwanted Dungeon
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Ranked #5 for Vanguard's Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Vanguard's Descent.
A dark fantasy survivorslike with classic ARPG essence: Deep builds, rare loot, NPC shops, shared storage, and a semi-procedural dungeon with bosses, events, and curses. Fast-paced roguelite action meets old-school dungeon crawling. Every lost run is a new idea. Welcome to Unwanted Dungeon!
HERETIC
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Ranked #6 for Vanguard's Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vanguard's Descent.
Faith remains, even after the gods are dead. Branded a heretic, you must explore perilous sanctuaries to uncover a forgotten truth. Master ever-changing battles, craft powerful item and skill synergies, and overcome relentless foes in this dark fantasy roguelite action RPG.
Rugida
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Ranked #7 for Vanguard's Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vanguard's Descent.
The girl ended up in the dungeons. And although her heart is now barely beating, she still hopes to get her soul back. The dungeon is just the beginning of the journey. And it is already teeming with everything that can be teeming with. Will you help her on this difficult journey?
Dark Fantasia
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Ranked #8 for Vanguard's Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vanguard's Descent.
Crush the armies of darkness and rise to divine power. Your goal is the fortress where the Great Demon awaits. But remember - you are not immortal. Dodge enemy attacks, find new weapons and perks - only then will you survive.
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Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vanguard's Descent.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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 Vanguard's Descent.
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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 Vanguard's Descent.
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Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Vanguard's Descent.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanguard's Descent.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
An Arcade Full of Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vanguard's Descent.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanguard's Descent.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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- What games are most similar to Vanguard's Descent?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vanguard's Descent are Land of the Dead Trees, PinPow, Blood & Dungeon.
- Who developed Vanguard's Descent?
- Vanguard's Descent was developed by Devichi.
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's Descent.
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