Games like Cassette Beasts
If Cassette Beasts is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mystal Haven, Temtem and tinypocket — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its monster design is phenomenal, music is incredible and open world offers freedom. 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 →Cassette Beasts is an indie RPG from Bytten Studio in which players collect and transform into monsters across an open world. The core mechanic involves fusing any two monster forms to create unique hybrid creatures for turn-based 2v2 battles that use action point management and elemental type interactions. Players describe the experience as emotional and whimsical, with reviewers highlighting how the open world offers freedom and transforming into different monsters provides a compelling hook. The game supports online multiplayer for cooperative play and runs verified on Steam Deck. Priced at $19.99, it holds a 96% positive rating from over 5,900 Steam reviews.
About Cassette Beasts: Collect awesome monsters to use during turn-based battles in this open-world RPG, now with online multiplayer mode. Combine any two monster forms using Cassette Beasts’ Fusion System to create unique and powerful new ones!
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Steam players who put hours into Cassette Beasts 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.
Mystal Haven
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Top pick for Cassette Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Cassette Beasts.
Mystal Haven is a laid-back, open-world creature-collector featuring four-player split-screen and online multiplayer.
Temtem
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cassette Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Cassette Beasts.
Temtem is an online creature-collection adventure. Tame 165 unique creatures across 7 vibrant islands, battle other tamers, tackle mythical Lairs, chase Luma & Umbra variants, and breed your favorite Tems - with friends by your side! Dive into a colorful monster catching adventure, so Temtem up!
tinypocket
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Third-strongest match for Cassette Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Cassette Beasts.
collection of independent retro-inspired 8-bit and 16-bit minigames packed into one nostalgic handheld experience.
tinymancer
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Ranked #4 for Cassette Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Cassette Beasts.
A tiny, eerie online world with Deckbuilding, Creature Collection, Housing, Crafting, Exploration, and Cartridge mini-games.
Coromon
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Ranked #5 for Cassette Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Cassette Beasts.
Coromon is a modern take on the classic monster-taming genre. Tame Coromon and explore a vast world filled with thrilling turn-based battles, brain-twisting puzzles, and a mysterious threat to the world awaiting defeat. Nobody said being a Battle Researcher was easy!
Cassette Beasts 2002
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Ranked #6 for Cassette Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Cassette Beasts.
Record, battle, and fuse with 250+ beasts as you adventure alongside diverse companions in this monster-collecting RPG. Set in London in 2002, play in single-player or online to unmask an enigmatic occultist who threatens the realms of man and beast! When worlds collide, take the leap beyond!
Monster Sanctuary
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Ranked #7 for Cassette Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cassette Beasts.
Monster taming meets metroidvania. Collect, train and battle monsters in a lovely side-scroller pixel world.
Aniimo
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Ranked #8 for Cassette Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Aniimo is a free-to-play, next-gen creature-catching open-world RPG. Explore the vast continent of Idyll, Twine with unique Aniimo, unlock new abilities. Travel to a sky-floating metropolis, meet other Pathfinders, and battle in exciting competitions. Choose your Aniimo and begin your epic journey!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Cassette Beasts
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Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster
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Reviewers of Cassette Beasts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Cassette Beasts.
Reawaken your inner demon in a modernized version of the acclaimed ATLUS classic, Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster.
Edge Of Dead: Under A Uranium Sky
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Reviewers of Cassette Beasts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Cassette Beasts.
A bullet hell that let's you pickup and throw the furniture! Throw grenades and activate shields, stun enemies, shoot and dodge enemy fire and set the floor ablaze. Buy a porcupine shotgun from the shop or try a rancid burrito!
Persona 5 Royal
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Reviewers of Cassette Beasts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Cassette Beasts.
Don the mask and join the Phantom Thieves of Hearts as they stage grand heists, infiltrate the minds of the corrupt, and make them change their ways!
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
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Reviewers of Cassette Beasts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Cassette Beasts.
Become a mighty demigod and battle through a decimated Tokyo in a war between angels and demons. Make new allies along your journey, engage in intense, turn-based combat, recruit hundreds of demons and forge your own path to dictate the fate of all existence.
Persona 3 Reload
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Shares an emotional mood with Cassette Beasts.
Reviewers of Cassette Beasts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Cassette Beasts.
Dive into the Dark Hour and awaken the depths of your heart. Persona 3 Reload is a captivating reimagining of the genre-defining RPG, reborn for the modern era with cutting-edge graphics and gameplay.
Station Zeta
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Reviewers of Cassette Beasts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Cassette Beasts.
Run, jump, shoot, and think your way to safety in this retro-inspired 2D puzzle-platformer. Station Zeta is out of control, and you'll have to deal with crazed robots, terribly designed station machinery, and blatant safety hazards as you try to make your escape across 35 levels.
Castle of Vania
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Reviewers of Cassette Beasts cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Invade the castle of the powerful Vampire Vania, face several difficult, exciting and sensual challenges to end this reign of horror and orgies.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cassette Beasts at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Cassette Beasts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cassette Beasts.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Cassette Beasts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cassette Beasts.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Cassette Beasts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cassette Beasts.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Cassette Beasts on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Cassette Beasts.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Cassette Beasts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Cassette Beasts.
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
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Priced ~60% under Cassette Beasts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cassette Beasts.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cassette Beasts.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cassette Beasts.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cassette Beasts.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cassette Beasts.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Cassette Beasts.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cassette Beasts.
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]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cassette Beasts.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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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.
Temtem
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Cassette Beasts.
Temtem is an online creature-collection adventure. Tame 165 unique creatures across 7 vibrant islands, battle other tamers, tackle mythical Lairs, chase Luma & Umbra variants, and breed your favorite Tems - with friends by your side! Dive into a colorful monster catching adventure, so Temtem up!
Coromon
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Cassette Beasts.
Coromon is a modern take on the classic monster-taming genre. Tame Coromon and explore a vast world filled with thrilling turn-based battles, brain-twisting puzzles, and a mysterious threat to the world awaiting defeat. Nobody said being a Battle Researcher was easy!
Monster Sanctuary
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Cassette Beasts.
Monster taming meets metroidvania. Collect, train and battle monsters in a lovely side-scroller pixel world.
Frequently asked about Cassette Beasts
- Is Cassette Beasts verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Cassette Beasts is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Cassette Beasts cost?
- Cassette Beasts is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Cassette Beasts have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Cassette Beasts supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Cassette Beasts?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cassette Beasts are Mystal Haven, Temtem, tinypocket.
- Who developed Cassette Beasts?
- Cassette Beasts was developed by Bytten Studio and published by Raw Fury.
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