Games like The Legend of Bum-Bo
If The Legend of Bum-Bo is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pirates Outlaws, Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles and Wildfrost — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and challenging. 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 →The Legend of Bum-Bo is a turn-based match-4 roguelite set in the Binding of Isaac universe. Players build decks throughout procedurally generated runs, using character-specific abilities and strategic match-4 positioning to progress. Each run is short and challenging, with reviewers highlighting the charming child-like art style while players describe the experience as dark. Released in 2019 by Edmund McMillen, James Interactive, and Ridiculon, the game costs $14.99 and maintains a 78% positive rating from 3,563 Steam reviews, with support for play on Steam Deck.
About The Legend of Bum-Bo: A puzzle based deck building rogue-like prequel to The Binding of Isaac... Made of cardboard!
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Pirates Outlaws
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Top pick for The Legend of Bum-Bo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Pirates Outlaws is a roguelike card game in which you navigate dangerous seas and challenge their masters. Your expedition will be full of ambushes and will not be easy. Build your deck and combos to become a reputed pirate.
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Legend of Bum-Bo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and a unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and a challenging mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Third-strongest match for The Legend of Bum-Bo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
Banners of Ruin
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Ranked #4 for The Legend of Bum-Bo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Assemble your party. Answer the call. Win the war. Build a deck and fight a series of turn-based combats with up to 6 party characters through the city of Dawn's Point. Each character can unlock a set of unique cards and abilities that can augment your deck in powerful, exciting ways.
DREAMGATE
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Ranked #5 for The Legend of Bum-Bo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Dreamgate is a unique hardcore mix of deck building card battler, roguelite adventure and RPG. Build your deck, explore the Dreamgate world and defeat fearsome foes!
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Ranked #6 for The Legend of Bum-Bo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
Skogdal
WHY THIS
Shares roguelike progression, deck building and a dark mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Ranked #7 for The Legend of Bum-Bo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
A deckbuilding adventure card game set in a rustic Norwegian town during the 90's. Recruit followers, draft cards and build powerful combos. Explore a hand-crafted world across multiple runs and uncover an unsettling mystery…
Dicey Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Ranked #8 for The Legend of Bum-Bo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Become a giant walking dice, explore dungeons and defy Lady Luck in this dice powered roguelike! Now featuring "Reunion", a free DLC with six brand-new episodes!
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The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a dark mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Reviewers of The Legend of Bum-Bo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
Super Meat Boy
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Reviewers of The Legend of Bum-Bo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
HuniePop
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Legend of Bum-Bo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
HuniePop is a unique sim experience for PC, Mac and Linux. It's a gameplay first approach that's part dating sim, part puzzle game, with light RPG elements, a visual novel style of presentation, an abrasive western writing style and plenty of "plot".
Mewgenics
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Reviewers of The Legend of Bum-Bo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Legend of Bum-Bo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Into the Breach
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Reviewers of The Legend of Bum-Bo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
Meteorfall: Krumit's Tale
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Reviewers of The Legend of Bum-Bo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Krumit's Tale, the second game in the Meteorfall universe, is a new take on the deckbuilding roguelike genre. Use your cards to clear dungeons, then upgrade your deck with new cards and perks to press forward. The fate of the world is in your hands.
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Reviewers of The Legend of Bum-Bo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Legend of Bum-Bo at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Legend of Bum-Bo on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
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 The Legend of Bum-Bo on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Legend of Bum-Bo on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Legend of Bum-Bo on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and a challenging mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Priced ~58% under The Legend of Bum-Bo on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
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 The Legend of Bum-Bo on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
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 The Legend of Bum-Bo on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
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 ~67% under The Legend of Bum-Bo on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 The Legend of Bum-Bo.
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 The Legend of Bum-Bo.
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 The Legend of Bum-Bo.
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 The Legend of Bum-Bo.
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?
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 The Legend of Bum-Bo.
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 The Legend of Bum-Bo.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Edmund McMillen
Other recommendable Steam games by Edmund McMillen, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a dark mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Another title from Edmund McMillen, the studio behind The Legend of Bum-Bo.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a dark mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Another title from Edmund McMillen, the studio behind The Legend of Bum-Bo. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
Mewgenics
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Another title from Edmund McMillen, the studio behind The Legend of Bum-Bo. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.
The End Is Nigh
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Another title from Edmund McMillen, the studio behind The Legend of Bum-Bo. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.
The Basement Collection
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Another title from Edmund McMillen, the studio behind The Legend of Bum-Bo. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
A collection of 9 award winning indie games from the creator of "Binding of isaac" and "Super Meat Boy"!
Fingered
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Another title from Edmund McMillen, the studio behind The Legend of Bum-Bo. Shares Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
GUILTY! THEY ARE ALL GUILTY! FINGERED is a "whodunit" hyperrealisic police sim where you must finger the guilty and clean up this darn city using the descriptions of the local busy bodies. but everyone's perspective is different: one man's fat is another man's sexy! send him to the chair!!!
Gish
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Another title from Edmund McMillen, the studio behind The Legend of Bum-Bo. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Gish isn't your average hero. In fact, he's not your average anything...you see, Gish is a ball of tar. A Sunday stroll with his lady friend, Brea, goes awry when a shadowy figure emerges from an open manhole and pulls Brea below ground.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Pirates Outlaws
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Pirates Outlaws is a roguelike card game in which you navigate dangerous seas and challenge their masters. Your expedition will be full of ambushes and will not be easy. Build your deck and combos to become a reputed pirate.
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and a challenging mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
Dicey Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Legend of Bum-Bo.
Become a giant walking dice, explore dungeons and defy Lady Luck in this dice powered roguelike! Now featuring "Reunion", a free DLC with six brand-new episodes!
Frequently asked about The Legend of Bum-Bo
- Does The Legend of Bum-Bo run on Steam Deck?
- The Legend of Bum-Bo 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 The Legend of Bum-Bo cost?
- The Legend of Bum-Bo is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Legend of Bum-Bo?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Legend of Bum-Bo are Pirates Outlaws, Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles, Wildfrost.
- Who developed The Legend of Bum-Bo?
- The Legend of Bum-Bo was developed by Edmund McMillen, James Interactive, Ridiculon and published by Edmund McMillen.
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