Games like Diary of Defender
If Diary of Defender is your kind of game, the closest matches are Zanshin, Fastigium: Dead End and Flinch — 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 Diary of Defender: Into the game, you will become a defender, return to the age of war, defense the enemy wave of attack.
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Zanshin
WHY THIS
Top pick for Diary of Defender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Diary of Defender.
Slice and dice! Zanshin is a sword fighting simulator, where you can test yourself in challenging sword fights. Try your agility, reaction, speed. Move, block and strike your enemies down and then slice them into thousand pieces. Fight with hundred waves of enemies and survive as long as you can.
Fastigium: Dead End
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Diary of Defender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Diary of Defender.
Fastigium: Dead End is a VR game (FPS) designed by ifgames studio. Fastigium: Dead End is the 2nd edition of , it provides 3 huge maps which players could move freely. The further you explore, the more fatal dangers you will face to. Take your weapon! Fight your way out!
Flinch
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Diary of Defender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Diary of Defender.
Flinch is a VR horror game about terrifying yourself, but more importantly your friends and loved ones. You're racing against time and trying to keep your cool. Flinch monitors your behaviors and can detect when you jerk or move suddenly if you get frightened. Eeek!
LIBERTY VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Diary of Defender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Diary of Defender.
LIBERTY VR is an action adventure game, taking place in alternative version of American Revolution. Main protagonist is the American soldier who is fighting against evil created by ancient alien race.
Tomb Guard VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Diary of Defender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Diary of Defender.
Minds-on and hands-on. Customize the layout of various traps to build defense system. Protecting the tomb civilization from being plundered, you will battle with the Tomb Raiders by using BOW,SWORD and SHIELD, etc.. Archery and attack are very important, while the the layout of TRAPS is the key to victory!
KungFu Town VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Diary of Defender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Diary of Defender.
KungFu Town VR is a simulation KungFu game based on character AI and character skeleton creation. In the game you can attack on other people by fist, pick up weapons, AI characters can be crushed, cut, beheaded and so on.
Zombie City
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Diary of Defender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Diary of Defender.
Are you ready for the zombie apocalypse? We've done the research and want to make sure you're prepared. Fought to the end. Requires the virtual reality headset.
The SoulKeeper VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Diary of Defender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Diary of Defender.
Immerse yourself in the dark world of The SoulKeeper® universe and unravel the plots of different playable characters as you slash and cast through daunting challenges and towering enemies in an epic VR adventure. Requires VR Headset (HTC VIVE or Oculus Rift)
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Diary of Defender at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Diary of Defender on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Diary of Defender.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Diary of Defender on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Diary of Defender.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Diary of Defender on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Diary of Defender.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Diary of Defender on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Diary of Defender.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Diary of Defender on Steam right now. Shares Action with Diary of Defender.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Diary of Defender on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Diary of Defender.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Diary of Defender on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Diary of Defender.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Diary of Defender on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Diary of Defender.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Diary of Defender.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Diary of Defender.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Diary of Defender.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Diary of Defender.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Diary of Defender.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Diary of Defender.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Meteor 60 Seconds!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Diary of Defender.
Meteor 60 seconds! is a simple, fun, comic-like action game that simulates your life if there were a meteor heading towards Earth and you had 60 seconds to live. Do anything you want to do with your last 60 seconds, even if it's illegal! What about planting an apple tree?
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Frequently asked about Diary of Defender
- How much does Diary of Defender cost?
- Diary of Defender is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Diary of Defender?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Diary of Defender are Zanshin, Fastigium: Dead End, Flinch.
- Who developed Diary of Defender?
- Diary of Defender was developed by 5th VR.
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