Games like Vanguard Fusion
If Vanguard Fusion is your kind of game, the closest matches are Battle Waves: Card Tactics, Aces & Adventures and Nowhere Prophet — 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 Fusion: Draft your deck in this tactical 2D pixel-art auto-battler and tower defense game. Collect gems, upgrade your units, and defend your castle against increasingly difficult enemy waves.
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Battle Waves: Card Tactics
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Top pick for Vanguard Fusion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vanguard Fusion.
A fast-paced Card Battler with Tower Defense action! Claim victory in the Roguelite Deckbuilder campaign and Online Multiplayer. Collect all the factions to explore thousands of strategic combinations.
Aces & Adventures
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Second-strongest match for Vanguard Fusion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Vanguard Fusion.
Aces & Adventures is a deckbuilding RPG with poker-powered combat. Craft your deck, combining poker hands with powerful ability cards. Journey through 13 fully-voiced campaigns to save the Life Tree, or tackle procedurally-generated runs in this strategic deckbuilder unlike any other.
Nowhere Prophet
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Third-strongest match for Vanguard Fusion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vanguard Fusion.
Prepare your decks and go on a pilgrimage through the wasteland! Nowhere Prophet is a unique single-player card game. Travel across randomly generated maps and lead your followers in deep tactical combat. Discover new cards and build your deck as you explore this strange, broken world.
Deck of Souls
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Ranked #4 for Vanguard Fusion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Vanguard Fusion.
Roguelite deck-building meets souls-like. Break out of an infinite loop to close the hell gates, turn enemies into cards, and build your own omnipotent Deck of Souls! Rolls included.
RUNGORE
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Ranked #5 for Vanguard Fusion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vanguard Fusion.
Card game mechanics - check. Real time battles - check. Silly humor - check. If this isn't the game of your dreams i don't know what is (Also we have hidden memes everywhere lol)
Kādomon: Hyper Auto Battlers
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Ranked #6 for Vanguard Fusion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vanguard Fusion.
Collect and battle over 200 unique creatures in this roguelike auto-battler. Level-up and evolve your Kādomon as you assemble the ultimate team, creating awesome synergies to beat BIG bosses!
Hadean Tactics
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Ranked #7 for Vanguard Fusion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vanguard Fusion.
Hadean Tactics is a roguelike deckbuilding game fused with autobattler elements to create a unique strategy experience. Use your cards to influence the actions of your units and help your Hero defeat the Six Wings of Hell!
Hive Blight
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Ranked #8 for Vanguard Fusion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Vanguard Fusion.
Hive Blight is a roguelite autobattler where you lead a team of insect warriors against a corrupting Fungal Threat. Build powerful synergies, uncover the source of the plague, and destroy it to save your world!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vanguard Fusion.
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.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vanguard Fusion.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vanguard Fusion.
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.
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 with Vanguard Fusion.
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.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vanguard Fusion.
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!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vanguard Fusion.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vanguard Fusion.
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!
NERTS! Online
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vanguard Fusion.
NERTS! Online is a fast-paced competitive solitaire game for you and up to five of your friends, played the same way we play it at the Zachtronics office!
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- What games are most similar to Vanguard Fusion?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vanguard Fusion are Battle Waves: Card Tactics, Aces & Adventures, Nowhere Prophet.
- Who developed Vanguard Fusion?
- Vanguard Fusion was developed by Epicold Interactive.
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