Games like Guard Duty
If Guard Duty is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tales of the Neon Sea, Memory's Dogma CODE:01 and Resonance — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, lighthearted and nostalgic. 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.
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Tales of the Neon Sea
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Guard Duty.
Top pick for Guard Duty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
Welcome to a world of intrigue and suspicion. Where humans and robots contend with escalating tensions and mutual distrust. And where gangster felines scheme their way to the top of the food chain. Welcome to the Tales of the Neon Sea!
Memory's Dogma CODE:01
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Guard Duty.
Second-strongest match for Guard Duty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
Japan, 2030 A.D. Memories can now be digitized and archived, allowing people to communicate with the deceased. With only one week left before his best friend’s memories are deleted, can Hiroki uncover the truth behind Sorano’s death?
Resonance
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Guard Duty.
Third-strongest match for Guard Duty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.
Dreamfall Chapters
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Guard Duty.
Ranked #4 for Guard Duty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
The Final Cut is the ultimate collector's edition of Dreamfall Chapters, a story-driven 3D adventure about choice and consequence, set in parallel worlds: a cyberpunk vision of the future and a magical fantasy realm.
Epitasis
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Guard Duty.
Ranked #5 for Guard Duty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
After discovering an ancient portal, you suddenly find yourself among the remnants of an ancient alien civilization. Technological relics, sprawling ruins, and cryptic puzzles are all that remain. If you are to learn their secrets, you must unearth the fate of the race that called this world home.
Four Last Things
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Guard Duty.
Ranked #6 for Guard Duty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
Four Last Things is a very silly pythonesque adventure made from Renaissance-era paintings and public domain recordings of classical music. It is about sin, and the Four Last Things – Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell – and strives to be intelligent and ridiculous in equal measures.
Paradigm
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Guard Duty.
Ranked #7 for Guard Duty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
Paradigm is a surreal adventure game set in the strange and post apocalyptic Eastern European country of Krusz. Play as the handsome mutant, Paradigm, whose past comes back to haunt him in the form of a genetically engineered sloth that vomits candy.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Guard Duty.
Ranked #8 for Guard Duty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
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The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Guard Duty.
Reviewers of Guard Duty cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Guard Duty.
Back by popular demand, The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition faithfully re-imagines the internationally-acclaimed classic game (originally released in 1990) for original and new audiences alike.
Broken Sword: Director's Cut (2009)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Guard Duty.
Reviewers of Guard Duty cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Guard Duty.
One of the all-time classic adventures, multi award winning "Broken Sword: Director's Cut" pitches sassy journalist Nico Collard, and intrepid American George Stobbart into a mysterious journey of intrigue and jeopardy.
Simon the Sorcerer Origins
WHY THIS
Shares inventory based puzzles, point and click and an atmospheric mood with Guard Duty.
Reviewers of Guard Duty cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Guard Duty.
Summoned to a strange magical world, Simon must complete an ancient prophecy to return home. Solve crazy puzzles, cast spells, brew odd potions and uncover the origins of a legendary saga!
METAL GEAR & METAL GEAR 2: Solid Snake
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Guard Duty.
Reviewers of Guard Duty cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The first and second title in the METAL GEAR series that established the stealth action genre, as well as the basic mechanics of the series.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Guard Duty at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Guard Duty on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guard Duty.
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 ~50% under Guard Duty on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guard Duty.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Guard Duty on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guard Duty.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Guard Duty on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guard Duty.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Guard Duty on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Guard Duty on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guard Duty.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Guard Duty on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guard Duty.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Guard Duty on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guard Duty.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 Guard Duty.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Guard Duty.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guard Duty.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guard Duty.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guard Duty.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Resonance
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Guard Duty.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.
Four Last Things
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Guard Duty.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
Four Last Things is a very silly pythonesque adventure made from Renaissance-era paintings and public domain recordings of classical music. It is about sin, and the Four Last Things – Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell – and strives to be intelligent and ridiculous in equal measures.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Guard Duty.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guard Duty.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
Frequently asked about Guard Duty
- How much does Guard Duty cost?
- Guard Duty is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Guard Duty?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Guard Duty are Tales of the Neon Sea, Memory's Dogma CODE:01, Resonance.
- Who developed Guard Duty?
- Guard Duty was developed by Headware Games.
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