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Below are 17 hand-picked alternatives to Vigilantes for fans of strategy, indie, rpg, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Vigilantes also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, and Steam Deck–friendly options. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.

About Vigilantes: Vigilantes is a combat focused, turn-based tactical RPG set in the crime riddled city of Reiker. The game offers hardcore squad-level combat in a gritty neo-noir setting, intel gathering through surveillance and interrogation, a detailed character system, base facilities, crafting, and more.

2018StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOS · Linuxby Timeslip Softworks
Vigilantes — Steam game cover
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    Depth of Extinction — Steam game cover

    Depth of Extinction

    Top pick for Vigilantes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vigilantes.

    Explore a flooded world and save humanity from a terrible threat in this turn based, tactical RPG with roguelike elements

    2018StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDSteam ↗
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    The Storm Guard: Darkness is Coming — Steam game cover

    The Storm Guard: Darkness is Coming

    Second-strongest match for Vigilantes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vigilantes.

    The Storm Guard is a challenging turn-based roguelike role-playing game inspired by the Night’s Watch in the Game of Thrones. You assume the role of the Lord Commander of the Storm Guard leading the order during difficult times. An ancient dragon and its minions have returned, threatening the realm of men.

    2016ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDSteam ↗
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    Templar Battleforce — Steam game cover

    Templar Battleforce

    Third-strongest match for Vigilantes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vigilantes.

    An addictive mix of strategic combat and army building, with the precision of an RPG. Design your squad members' exact build of equipment and talents to create unique fireteam combinations. Step into the pilot suit of a Leviathan mech, lead the Templar Knights in turn-based tactical warfare.

    2015ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Warbanners — Steam game cover

    Warbanners

    Ranked #4 for Vigilantes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vigilantes.

    Warbanners: the turn-based, tactical strategy game with role-playing elements that lets you manage a squad of mercenaries, and survive 42 campaign missions. Your goal? To earn a place among ancient legends!

    2017StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDSteam ↗
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    Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark — Steam game cover

    Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark

    Ranked #5 for Vigilantes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vigilantes.

    Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!

    2019StrategyIndieRPG4.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    Age of Fear 2: The Chaos Lord GOLD — Steam game cover

    Age of Fear 2: The Chaos Lord GOLD

    Ranked #6 for Vigilantes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vigilantes.

    Play as either Bel'Kara, a seductive Succubus at odds with the Underworld, or Katzok, a brutal Orc Chieftan fighting for his clan's dominance. The Age of Fear series is a deep and complex turn-based strategy (full of humour!) that fuses a tabletop wargame with RPG elements.

    2015StrategyIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    The Last Spell — Steam game cover

    The Last Spell

    Ranked #7 for Vigilantes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vigilantes.

    Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    Lost Eidolons — Steam game cover

    Lost Eidolons

    Ranked #8 for Vigilantes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vigilantes.

    Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.

    2022StrategyIndieRPG34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Vigilantes

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

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    X-COM: Apocalypse — Steam game cover

    X-COM: Apocalypse

    Reviewers of Vigilantes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Vigilantes.

    There's something evil in the city tonight... Earth has been ravaged by human excess, petty conflict and alien invasion. The world's population has been herded into huge cities, the first of which was Mega Primus. 2084: A Utopia shattered, social collapse and civil unrest reigns in Mega Primus. Fiendish aliens terrorize the city.

    2008Strategy4.99 USDSteam ↗
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    Silent Storm Sentinels — Steam game cover

    Silent Storm Sentinels

    Reviewers of Vigilantes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Vigilantes.

    A Stand-Alone add-on to the turned-based tactical game Silent Storm. Silent Storm: Sentinels features covert action in desert environments, desolated mines, and industrial vaults. Governments do not support "Sentinels" so they have to buy weapons and equipment taking risks at their own.

    2013ActionStrategyRPGDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    XCOM® 2 — Steam game cover

    XCOM® 2

    Reviewers of Vigilantes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Vigilantes.

    XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.

    2016Strategy2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Fallout 4 — Steam game cover

    Fallout 4

    Reviewers of Vigilantes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Vigilantes.

    From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.

    2015RPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    Jagged Alliance 3 — Steam game cover

    Jagged Alliance 3

    Reviewers of Vigilantes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Vigilantes.

    The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.

    2023ActionStrategy13.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

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    Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark — Steam game cover

    Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vigilantes.

    Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!

    2019StrategyIndieRPG4.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    Age of Fear 2: The Chaos Lord GOLD — Steam game cover

    Age of Fear 2: The Chaos Lord GOLD

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vigilantes.

    Play as either Bel'Kara, a seductive Succubus at odds with the Underworld, or Katzok, a brutal Orc Chieftan fighting for his clan's dominance. The Age of Fear series is a deep and complex turn-based strategy (full of humour!) that fuses a tabletop wargame with RPG elements.

    2015StrategyIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    The Last Spell — Steam game cover

    The Last Spell

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vigilantes.

    Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    Lost Eidolons — Steam game cover

    Lost Eidolons

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vigilantes.

    Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.

    2022StrategyIndieRPG34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Vigilantes

Does Vigilantes run on Steam Deck?
Vigilantes is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Vigilantes cost?
Vigilantes is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Vigilantes?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vigilantes are Depth of Extinction, The Storm Guard: Darkness is Coming, Templar Battleforce.
Who developed Vigilantes?
Vigilantes was developed by Timeslip Softworks.

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