Games like Rock Paper Viking
If Rock Paper Viking is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Varitav, The Arena Pit and Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire — 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 Rock Paper Viking: You are the sole defender of the Cardboard Castle! Pick up new weapons and magic abilities as you progress. Level up your loot to gain the strength of the Norse Gods, and defeat your foes to claim victory for your kin.
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Steam players who put hours into Rock Paper Viking 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.
The Varitav
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Top pick for Rock Paper Viking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Rock Paper Viking.
A top-down pixel art survivor roguelike. Play as a little fox, craft a powerful build against endless enemy waves, and survive across three distinct biomes. No permanent upgrades. You start from scratch every run. As the swarm grows stronger, surviving gets pretty hard.
The Arena Pit
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Second-strongest match for Rock Paper Viking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rock Paper Viking.
Ready for a blend of RPG and Tower Defense in a 2D rogue-lite game? Enter The Arena Pit! Choose your hero, wield powerful weapons and skills. Strategize your moves in the arena, setting traps, obstacles, and towers against hordes of monsters in the epic battle of good versus evil!
Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire
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Third-strongest match for Rock Paper Viking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rock Paper Viking.
Rebel against your legacy in this farming action roguelite. Tend your spooky farm by day & defend your crops from enemies at night! Upgrade Voltaire, youngest son of Dracula, with devious new abilities & discover dozens of new plants to cultivate. Send dad a message: a vegan life is no missed steak!
Warriors of the End
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Ranked #5 for Rock Paper Viking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rock Paper Viking.
Warriors of the End is a fast-paced tower-defense horde-battler roguelike. Defend the Princess against enemy hordes by strategically positioning and upgrading your towers, customize unique characters with deadly weapons and spells, discover mindblowing synergies and create game-breaking builds!
Ballwark: Pinball Siege
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Ranked #6 for Rock Paper Viking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Rock Paper Viking.
Pinball meets Vampire Survivors in this dopamine-packed arcade roguelite! Launch enchanted balls, build deadly machines, and forge powerful synergies to crush relentless hordes.
SinSiege
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Ranked #7 for Rock Paper Viking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rock Paper Viking.
SinSiege is a action rogue-like/tower defense hybrid set in Hell, where humanity's embassies is under siege. Play as legendary heroes, build divine defenses, and face off against waves of demons corrupted by the Seven Sins in a battle to protect mankind’s final haven in hell.
Monsters are Coming!
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Ranked #8 for Rock Paper Viking fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rock Paper Viking.
Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Rock Paper Viking.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Rock Paper Viking.
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!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Rock Paper Viking.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Rock Paper Viking.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Rock Paper Viking.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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.
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Frequently asked about Rock Paper Viking
- What games are most similar to Rock Paper Viking?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rock Paper Viking are The Varitav, The Arena Pit, Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire.
- Who developed Rock Paper Viking?
- Rock Paper Viking was developed by Gunnar Krieger.
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