Games like Bastion
If Bastion is your kind of game, the closest matches are Transistor, Stories: The Path of Destinies and Omensight: Definitive Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and atmospheric. 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 →Bastion is an isometric action RPG developed by Supergiant Games that launched in 2011 at $14.99 USD. The game emphasizes narrative-driven gameplay where a reactive narrator responds to player choices and actions throughout the experience. Players engage in hack-and-slash combat while mixing and matching a variety of weapons to suit their preferred tactics, with tactical positioning mattering in engagements. The title holds a 96% positive rating from over 17,500 Steam reviews and is marked as playable on Steam Deck. Reviewers highlight the atmospheric world-building and immersive storytelling, while players consistently note the voice acting as particularly smooth. The experience is designed as a solo, sit-down session that players describe as challenging and story-rich.
About Bastion: Discover the secrets of the Calamity, a surreal catastrophe that shattered the world to pieces.
Players who liked Bastion also play
Steam players who put hours into Bastion 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.
Transistor
WHY THIS
Top pick for Bastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
Discover the world of Transistor, a sci-fi-themed action RPG from the creators of Bastion.
Stories: The Path of Destinies
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastion.
Second-strongest match for Bastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
Stories: The Path of Destinies is an Action RPG, an enchanted storybook filled with madcap fantasy tales, each told by a zippy narrator attuned to the player’s choices and actions.
Omensight: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastion.
Third-strongest match for Bastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
Omensight is an Action Murder Mystery game. In order to prevent the apocalypse, you are fated to repeat the last day of the world until it can be saved. Investigate clues, fight enemies, and solve the murder of the Godless-Priestess.
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastion.
Ranked #4 for Bastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
In the second part of the unfolding saga that could also be enjoyed independently, you can explore new corners of this unique world and experience the mix of old-school gothic and mad science, with more action, powerful foes and plenty of stunning places to visit.
Hades II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastion.
Ranked #5 for Bastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastion.
Ranked #6 for Bastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
Embark on an adventure in a gothic-noir world, where mad science threatens the peace between monsters and mortals. The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut is definitive edition of the trilogy with six playable classes and a new endgame mode with a huge variety of open missions!
Book of Demons
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastion.
Ranked #7 for Bastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
Book of Demons is a Hack & Slash in which YOU decide the length of quests. Wield magic cards instead of weapons and slay the armies of darkness in the dungeons below the Old Cathedral. Save the terror-stricken Paperverse from the clutches of the Archdemon himself!
Last Epoch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastion.
Ranked #8 for Bastion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
Uncover the Past, Reforge the Future. Ascend into one of 15 mastery classes and explore dangerous dungeons, hunt epic loot, craft legendary weapons, and wield the power of over a hundred transformative skill trees. Last Epoch is being developed by a team of passionate Action RPG enthusiasts.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Bastion
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Hades
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Bastion.
Reviewers of Bastion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Transistor
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Bastion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
Discover the world of Transistor, a sci-fi-themed action RPG from the creators of Bastion.
Thomas Was Alone
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastion.
Reviewers of Bastion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Bastion.
Guide a group of rectangles through 120 levels, using their different skills together to overcome a series of obstacles in each environment. Discover the human-made story of the first sentient artificial intelligences with Danny Wallace’s BAFTA-winning narration.
Pyre
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastion.
Reviewers of Bastion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
Pyre is a party-based RPG from the creators of Bastion and Transistor. Lead your band of exiles to freedom through a series of mystical competitions in the Campaign, or challenge a friend to a fast-paced ritual showdown in the head-to-head Versus Mode.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastion.
Reviewers of Bastion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Bastion.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.
The Stanley Parable
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastion.
Reviewers of Bastion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Bastion.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
Hyper Light Drifter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastion.
Reviewers of Bastion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Hades II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastion.
Reviewers of Bastion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Bastion at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Bastion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bastion.
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 Bastion on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
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 Bastion on Steam right now. Shares Action with Bastion.
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 Bastion on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
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 Bastion on Steam right now. Shares Action with Bastion.
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 Bastion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bastion.
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 Bastion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bastion.
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 Bastion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bastion.
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 Bastion.
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 Action with Bastion.
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 Action and Indie with Bastion.
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 Bastion.
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 with Bastion.
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 Bastion.
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 Action and Indie with Bastion.
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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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Supergiant Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Supergiant Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Hades
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Bastion.
Another title from Supergiant Games, the studio behind Bastion. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Hades II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastion.
Another title from Supergiant Games, the studio behind Bastion. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.
Transistor
WHY THIS
Another title from Supergiant Games, the studio behind Bastion. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
Discover the world of Transistor, a sci-fi-themed action RPG from the creators of Bastion.
Pyre
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastion.
Another title from Supergiant Games, the studio behind Bastion. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
Pyre is a party-based RPG from the creators of Bastion and Transistor. Lead your band of exiles to freedom through a series of mystical competitions in the Campaign, or challenge a friend to a fast-paced ritual showdown in the head-to-head Versus Mode.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Transistor
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
Discover the world of Transistor, a sci-fi-themed action RPG from the creators of Bastion.
Stories: The Path of Destinies
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastion.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
Stories: The Path of Destinies is an Action RPG, an enchanted storybook filled with madcap fantasy tales, each told by a zippy narrator attuned to the player’s choices and actions.
Omensight: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastion.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
Omensight is an Action Murder Mystery game. In order to prevent the apocalypse, you are fated to repeat the last day of the world until it can be saved. Investigate clues, fight enemies, and solve the murder of the Godless-Priestess.
Hades II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastion.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.
Last Epoch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastion.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Bastion.
Uncover the Past, Reforge the Future. Ascend into one of 15 mastery classes and explore dangerous dungeons, hunt epic loot, craft legendary weapons, and wield the power of over a hundred transformative skill trees. Last Epoch is being developed by a team of passionate Action RPG enthusiasts.
Frequently asked about Bastion
- Does Bastion run on Steam Deck?
- Bastion 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 Bastion cost?
- Bastion is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Bastion?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bastion are Transistor, Stories: The Path of Destinies, Omensight: Definitive Edition.
- Who developed Bastion?
- Bastion was developed by Supergiant Games.
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