Games like Vanguard Monsters
If Vanguard Monsters is your kind of game, the closest matches are Aleef: Desktop Pet Collector, Legendum and Fairy's Hero — 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 Monsters: Vanguard Monsters is a run-based creature raising roguelike autobattler. Hatch a team, evolve them to more powerful forms, and collect gear to defeat the endless forces of the encroaching void.
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Aleef: Desktop Pet Collector
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Top pick for Vanguard Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanguard Monsters.
Work, browse, or play other games while hatching eggs in the background! Collect 300+ pets, unlock powerful upgrades, and build your battle team. Or Sell/Buy from the Steam Community Market.
Legendum
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Second-strongest match for Vanguard Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanguard Monsters.
Become as legendary as possible before you die of old age. An incremental RPG where you plan your days, fight hordes automatically, and train your skills. Grow your soul across lives and unravel a dark plot spanning generations. Every life reshapes the world, and one will finish what the rest began.
Fairy's Hero
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Third-strongest match for Vanguard Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanguard Monsters.
Fairy's Hero is an auto-battler game with rogue-lite elements and incremental meta progression. While your hero is fighting enemies, you manage their inventory, skill tree, assist in boss fights, and collect rewards. Take your Hero on a quest across the kingdom, to fulfill their purpose!
Legends of Companion
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Ranked #4 for Vanguard Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanguard Monsters.
Legends of Companion is a strategic auto-battling ARPG roguelite where every choice is yours. Pick from 4 classes, build deep skill trees, forge loot, recruit a battle pet, and chart paths across diverse worlds. Master skills, gear, and team combos to turn one spark into an unstoppable legend.
Dig n Fight
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Ranked #5 for Vanguard Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanguard Monsters.
Dig for treasures, build powerful backpack synergies, and defeat all enemies.
HeroesSagaZero
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Ranked #6 for Vanguard Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanguard Monsters.
Pixel-art meets 2.5D battles in this strategy-driven, loot-focused roguelite RPG. Build your own team, master countless skill combinations, and collect gear with endless randomized options. No two strategies are ever the same—unleash your tactics and carve your path to infinite victory!
Idle Survivor
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Ranked #7 for Vanguard Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanguard Monsters.
Your ship is stranded and cannot move. Something out here has woken up, and it breeds faster than you can kill it. All you can do is upgrade your arsenal and fight back, wave after wave, for as long as you can hold.
Abyssal Hollow
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Ranked #8 for Vanguard Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanguard Monsters.
Plant strange seeds, grow adorable little horrors, and choose their fate: raise them as battle companions or harvest them for potions. Delve into the Abyss, battle cursed creatures, discover rare seeds, and strengthen your haunted garden through growth, crafting, and dungeon runs.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vanguard Monsters.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Vanguard Monsters.
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.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vanguard Monsters.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Vanguard Monsters.
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!
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 Monsters.
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 Indie with Vanguard Monsters.
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 Indie with Vanguard Monsters.
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 Indie with Vanguard Monsters.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about Vanguard Monsters
- What games are most similar to Vanguard Monsters?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vanguard Monsters are Aleef: Desktop Pet Collector, Legendum, Fairy's Hero.
- Who developed Vanguard Monsters?
- Vanguard Monsters was developed by Jay Kline.
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