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Games like Hero or Villain: Battle Royale

If Hero or Villain: Battle Royale is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fallen Hero: Retribution, VERSUS: The Deathscapes and Talon City: Death from Above — 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.

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About Hero or Villain: Battle Royale: Battle enhanced aliens in a gladiatorial contest to become the galaxy's champion!

2020ActionIndieAdventureRPGCasual6.99 USDWindows · macOS · Linuxby Hosted Games
Hero or Villain: Battle Royale — Steam game cover

Players who liked Hero or Villain: Battle Royale also play

Steam players who put hours into Hero or Villain: Battle Royale 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.

  1. Fallen Hero: Retribution

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Hero or Villain: Battle Royale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    So you're a villain now? Let's see if you survive the experience.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. VERSUS: The Deathscapes

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Hero or Villain: Battle Royale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    When a new threat emerges on planet Versus, you and your allies are forced to explore the dreaded Deathscapes to survive.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Talon City: Death from Above

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Hero or Villain: Battle Royale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    You’re a clever owl lawyer out of your depth, searching for a missing client. With enemies at every turn, can you survive and save the day?

    2022IndieAdventureRPG4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. SCARLET NEXUS

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Hero or Villain: Battle Royale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    Choose between Yuito and Kasane, elite psionics each armed with a talent in psychokinesis and their own reason to fight. Complete both of their stories to unlock all the mysteries of a Brain Punk future caught between technology and psychic abilities.

    2021ActionAdventureRPG14.39 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Fallen Hero: Rebirth

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Hero or Villain: Battle Royale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    They called you a hero; you call them fools. Use your telepathy romance old friends and fight new enemies as you become the greatest villain Los Diablos has ever known!

    2018IndieAdventureRPG6.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Lost Soul Aside™

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Hero or Villain: Battle Royale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    Embark on an epic odyssey to save your younger sister – and the whole of humanity – from mysterious dimensional invaders from beyond the starlit skies in Lost Soul Aside™.

    2025ActionAdventureRPG59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. I, the Forgotten One

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Hero or Villain: Battle Royale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    To defeat the rebel knights and stabilize the crown, you must journey through the most dangerous realm in the kingdom--your own wretched past.

    2023IndieAdventureRPG7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Hero or Villain: Battle Royale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    Save the living earth with Rage and spirit! Can your shattered werewolf pack defeat a Wyrm Spirit that manifests as a lie that you want to believe?

    2024IndieAdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hero or Villain: Battle Royale at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~86% under Hero or Villain: Battle Royale on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~57% under Hero or Villain: Battle Royale on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. GRIS

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~46% under Hero or Villain: Battle Royale on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.

    2018IndieAdventure3.74 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~72% under Hero or Villain: Battle Royale on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~79% under Hero or Villain: Battle Royale on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~86% under Hero or Villain: Battle Royale on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Crypt of the NecroDancer

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~57% under Hero or Villain: Battle Royale on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!

    2015ActionIndieRPG2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. A Short Hike

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under Hero or Villain: Battle Royale on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

    2019IndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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 Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Hosted Games

Other recommendable Steam games by Hosted Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Fallen Hero: Rebirth

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Hosted Games, the studio behind Hero or Villain: Battle Royale. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    They called you a hero; you call them fools. Use your telepathy romance old friends and fight new enemies as you become the greatest villain Los Diablos has ever known!

    2018IndieAdventureRPG6.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Fallen Hero: Retribution

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Hosted Games, the studio behind Hero or Villain: Battle Royale. Shares Action and Indie with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    So you're a villain now? Let's see if you survive the experience.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Hosted Games, the studio behind Hero or Villain: Battle Royale. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. Or maybe it's better to keep them closed. Seems the supernatural didn’t get the memo that nothing exciting ever happens in the little town of Wayhaven.

    2018IndieAdventureRPG7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Tin Star

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Hosted Games, the studio behind Hero or Villain: Battle Royale. Shares Indie and RPG with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    Ride out into the Old West as a U.S. marshal in the biggest interactive novel ever made! Confront outlaws, find romance, defy the elements, and craft an enduring legend as you uncover a conspiracy whose deadly web stretches from San Francisco to New York City.

    2015IndieRPG11.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Community College Hero: Trial by Fire

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Hosted Games, the studio behind Hero or Villain: Battle Royale. Shares Indie and RPG with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    Outwit your professors at superpower school! Ace your exams, date classmates, and bring down the nation’s most wanted villains to earn your degree.

    2015IndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Hosted Games, the studio behind Hero or Villain: Battle Royale. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    Zombies rise again at the dawn of Apocalypse! In this companion to the smash-hit Zombie Exodus, can you survive the early days of society's collapse?

    2016IndieAdventureRPG7.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Lords of Infinity

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Hosted Games, the studio behind Hero or Villain: Battle Royale. Shares Indie and RPG with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    Lead an ancient and crumbling noble house in a rich gunpowder fantasy setting. Lie, bribe, and conspire to secure power and prestige – or to save a doomed kingdom from itself.

    2023IndieRPGCasual11.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Two

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Hosted Games, the studio behind Hero or Villain: Battle Royale. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    Under the lights of the carnival, will romance and adventure bloom anew? The quiet town of Wayhaven is once again the center of supernatural occurrences.

    2020IndieAdventureRPG8.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. VERSUS: The Deathscapes

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    When a new threat emerges on planet Versus, you and your allies are forced to explore the dreaded Deathscapes to survive.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. SCARLET NEXUS

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    Choose between Yuito and Kasane, elite psionics each armed with a talent in psychokinesis and their own reason to fight. Complete both of their stories to unlock all the mysteries of a Brain Punk future caught between technology and psychic abilities.

    2021ActionAdventureRPG14.39 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Lost Soul Aside™

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    Embark on an epic odyssey to save your younger sister – and the whole of humanity – from mysterious dimensional invaders from beyond the starlit skies in Lost Soul Aside™.

    2025ActionAdventureRPG59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. I, the Forgotten One

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    To defeat the rebel knights and stabilize the crown, you must journey through the most dangerous realm in the kingdom--your own wretched past.

    2023IndieAdventureRPG7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

    Save the living earth with Rage and spirit! Can your shattered werewolf pack defeat a Wyrm Spirit that manifests as a lie that you want to believe?

    2024IndieAdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Hero or Villain: Battle Royale

How much does Hero or Villain: Battle Royale cost?
Hero or Villain: Battle Royale is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Hero or Villain: Battle Royale?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hero or Villain: Battle Royale are Fallen Hero: Retribution, VERSUS: The Deathscapes, Talon City: Death from Above.
Who developed Hero or Villain: Battle Royale?
Hero or Villain: Battle Royale was developed by Hosted Games.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Hero or Villain: Battle Royale.

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