Games like Waveguard
If Waveguard is your kind of game, the closest matches are Slorbis: Tower Defense, Magic Chess and Odin's Fate — 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 Waveguard: A roguelike tower defense where every run reshapes your strategy. Build your team of towers, combine more than 80 artifacts, and explore a pixel-art world while taking on ever tougher challenges and bosses.
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Slorbis: Tower Defense
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Top pick for Waveguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Waveguard.
Immerse yourself in the cozy, minimalist world of Slorbis: Tower Defense. Build towers with unique roles, buy modifiers of varying rarities, collect money, and face the unpredictability of procedurally generated maps as you defend the king from dark spirits.
Magic Chess
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Second-strongest match for Waveguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Waveguard.
Magic Chess, inspired by Chess and Chinese Chess, breaks free from traditional boundaries by introducing brand-new pieces and items. The game supports Single Player, Custom Matches, Local Multiplayer, and Online Random Matchmaking.
Odin's Fate
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Third-strongest match for Waveguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Waveguard.
Discover Norse mythology in a story-driven Tower Defense game. Defeat hordes of enemies, develop your abilities, unlock new heroes, recruit Einherjar, manipulate time, and change your fate, Odin, son of Bor! Will you manage to stop the impending Ragnarök?
One Tower Defense
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Ranked #4 for Waveguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Waveguard.
One Tower Defense is a Roguelike Tower Defense game where you control a single tower. Gather resources, buy weapons and upgrades, and fight endless waves of enemies. Play in single-player mode or in multiplayer mode, where the last survivor wins.
Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids
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Ranked #5 for Waveguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Waveguard.
Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids is a medieval fantasy blend of tower defense and roguelike progression. Build defenses on a grid, manage resources, and survive ever-evolving enemies.
Knights vs Aliens
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Ranked #6 for Waveguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Waveguard.
Command knights, aliens, and other historically dubious nations in a free real-time tower conquest game rebuilt from a 2009 iPad original. Grow armies, capture towers, and outmaneuver adaptive AI through 30 campaign levels.
Slotbound
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Ranked #7 for Waveguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Waveguard.
A roguelike auto-battler defense where luck meets strategy. Spin a 3x3 slot machine to summon units and grow your army by absorbing others. Use Items and Cores to manipulate the odds and survive challenging judgement waves and boss waves. Every spin and every choice counts.
For Our King
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Ranked #8 for Waveguard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Waveguard.
A medieval Tower Defense x Autobattler Roguelite. Defend your Keep across escalating waves, recruit different unit types, and cast spells from different Schools of Magic. Spend what you earn on a skill tree with over 300 upgrades, and place them on a Decree Bar with many unique modifiers and mults.
Free alternatives
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
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.
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.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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!
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Frequently asked about Waveguard
- What games are most similar to Waveguard?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Waveguard are Slorbis: Tower Defense, Magic Chess, Odin's Fate.
- Who developed Waveguard?
- Waveguard was developed by DLD Games.
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 Waveguard.
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