Games like The Dark Heart of Balor
If The Dark Heart of Balor is your kind of game, the closest matches are Frontier Hunter: Erza’s Wheel of Fortune, Hack and Slime and HunterX — 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 The Dark Heart of Balor: Archdemon Balor has opened the Gate of Hell into the human realm and hordes of demons and monsters have flooded into your world destroying everything in their path. You must protect those who are still alive and ultimately destroy Balor to close the Gate.
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Steam players who put hours into The Dark Heart of Balor 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.
Frontier Hunter: Erza’s Wheel of Fortune
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Dark Heart of Balor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
This is an anime-style Metroidvania game with an RPG progression system, numerous weapons for switching, and an emphasis on equipment building. It offers three switchable characters, smooth gameplay, impactful combat feedback, and anime-style story scenes.
Hack and Slime
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Dark Heart of Balor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
What could be scarier than a massive dungeon-tower infested with skulls, ogres, and dragons? That those same monsters ride the largest multinational in the world with it. You know; business is business.
HunterX
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Dark Heart of Balor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
HunterX is an action-adventure game full of spirited battles. Use various styles of weapons and magic to experience your own fighting style and explore a great world.
HunterX: code name T
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Dark Heart of Balor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
HunterX: code name T is an action adventure with fast and stylish combat. Perfect your own fighting style using various weapon actions and magic, and explore an ever-greater world.
Romancelvania
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Dark Heart of Balor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
Bite into Romancelvania, a darkly comic genre mashup, combining side-scrolling action and tongue-in-cheek romance into one completely absurd and unforgettable adventure.
GRIME
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Dark Heart of Balor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.
Trinity Fusion
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Dark Heart of Balor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
Three fractured realities. One collapsing multiverse. Fast, fluid combat in a dark sci-fi Roguevania where each run begins in a separate universe — then lets you fuse your parallel selves, powers, and worlds to create brutal, ever-evolving builds.
Death's Door
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Dark Heart of Balor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Dark Heart of Balor at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Dark Heart of Balor on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
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 Dark Heart of Balor on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
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 The Dark Heart of Balor on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Dark Heart of Balor.
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 The Dark Heart of Balor on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
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 The Dark Heart of Balor on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Dark Heart of Balor.
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 The Dark Heart of Balor on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
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 Dark Heart of Balor on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Heart of Balor.
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 Dark Heart of Balor on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Heart of Balor.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Dark Heart of Balor.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Wheelchair Wizards
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
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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.
HunterX
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
HunterX is an action-adventure game full of spirited battles. Use various styles of weapons and magic to experience your own fighting style and explore a great world.
HunterX: code name T
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
HunterX: code name T is an action adventure with fast and stylish combat. Perfect your own fighting style using various weapon actions and magic, and explore an ever-greater world.
Romancelvania
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
Bite into Romancelvania, a darkly comic genre mashup, combining side-scrolling action and tongue-in-cheek romance into one completely absurd and unforgettable adventure.
GRIME
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.
Trinity Fusion
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
Three fractured realities. One collapsing multiverse. Fast, fluid combat in a dark sci-fi Roguevania where each run begins in a separate universe — then lets you fuse your parallel selves, powers, and worlds to create brutal, ever-evolving builds.
Death's Door
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Heart of Balor.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
Frequently asked about The Dark Heart of Balor
- How much does The Dark Heart of Balor cost?
- The Dark Heart of Balor is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Dark Heart of Balor?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Dark Heart of Balor are Frontier Hunter: Erza’s Wheel of Fortune, Hack and Slime, HunterX.
- Who developed The Dark Heart of Balor?
- The Dark Heart of Balor was developed by Game Artists, LLC.
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