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Games like Heartwood Heroes

If Heartwood Heroes is your kind of game, the closest matches are Party Club: Hangry Animals, Big Screen Games - Pack 1 and Dice Ark — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its emphasizes cooperation over competition, cozy and funny. 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 Heartwood Heroes: A fast-paced board game for up to 4 players featuring humorous quests, quick turn-based combat and multiple-choice events. Explore the board, equip your character, get a job, and fight to become Hero of the Week! Play locally or online with Steam Remote Play.

2023StrategyIndieRPGCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Ludosity
Heartwood Heroes — Steam game cover
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Easy to pick up and play with friendsEmphasizes cooperation over competitionModding support promises future depthCozyFunnyLighthearted

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Steam players who put hours into Heartwood Heroes 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. Party Club: Hangry Animals

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Heartwood Heroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heartwood Heroes.

    A chaotic party game for up to 4 players — online, on the couch, and across platforms. Jump into ridiculous mini-games, betray your friends equally on every device, and embrace the madness.

    ActionSportsStrategySteam ↗
  2. Big Screen Games - Pack 1

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Heartwood Heroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heartwood Heroes.

    Time to bring the party into your living room. Introducing Big Screen Games, a party game experience where players use their phones as controllers - and play together on the big screen. Prepare for disastrous doodles, awkward face-offs and a pink cow that wants to ruin your day.

    2022StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  3. Dice Ark

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Heartwood Heroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heartwood Heroes.

    Dice Ark — A roguelike board game where dice decide your fate. Allocate your hand into attack, defense, and crystal raids. Compete for total wealth. When gold turns red, Sin blooms — three turns later, you become a Demon. Six classes, 20+ dice, seven sins. 15–70 min of greed and ruin.

    2026StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  4. Walls And Tower Party

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Heartwood Heroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heartwood Heroes.

    A PvP Board games to play with friends and family both locally and online. Race with up to 6 players, block there path and eliminate them one by one. Friends not included ;)

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation5.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. ScramBrawl

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Heartwood Heroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Heartwood Heroes.

    ScramBrawl is a silly physics-based party game where you fight as clumsy, half boiled beings. Blast your buddies with yolk missiles, slap them with fish and much more. Scramble your way to victory in hilarious, chaotic brawls!

    ActionIndieCasualSteam ↗
  6. Yesterday's News

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Heartwood Heroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Heartwood Heroes.

    Craft hilarious headlines with your friends in this 3-8 player party game. Score points by composing the wittiest headlines or by supplying the perfect words for your friends' creations!

    2024Casual11.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Fighters Forge

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Heartwood Heroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Heartwood Heroes.

    A 3D arena combat sandbox where you fight now and forge what’s next. Customize your fighter's avatar, fighting-style, & elemental superpower then battle it out in explosive matches built for chaos, strategy, and pure fun—solo, co-op, or competitive.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Forgotten Playland: Party Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Heartwood Heroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Heartwood Heroes.

    Unleash plushie mayhem in the ultimate attic showdown. Sprint, shove, and sabotage your way through 20+ chaotic mini-games as a cuddly custom Plushkyn. Play solo, local, or online multiplayer with up to 4 players, or hang out in massive 32-player lobbies for unplanned shenanigans!

    2026IndieCasualSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Heartwood Heroes

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Ittle Dew

    WHY THIS

    Shares a lighthearted mood with Heartwood Heroes.

    Reviewers of Heartwood Heroes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Heartwood Heroes.

    Adventuress Ittle Dew and her sidekick Tippsie crash onto a strange island, filled with loot and mysterious inhabitants. It quickly dawns on the duo that this might become their biggest adventure yet.Ittle Dew boils down the classic adventure formula until there is only fun left.

    2013IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. For The King

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Heartwood Heroes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heartwood Heroes.

    For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.

    2018StrategyIndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ed's world story

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Heartwood Heroes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Heartwood Heroes.

    Protagonist 'Ed' lives in Kakariko village. He wants to become an adventurer who explore this great world. You can join Ed's adventure... find out a secret of the world.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Dokapon Kingdom: Connect

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Heartwood Heroes.

    Reviewers of Heartwood Heroes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Heartwood Heroes.

    Make friends or frenemies! Be a savvy schemer in this hybrid RPG party game!

    2023ActionStrategyRPG49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Heartwood Heroes at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Heartwood Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Heartwood Heroes.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Heartwood Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Heartwood Heroes.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Heartwood Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heartwood Heroes.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Heartwood Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Heartwood Heroes.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Heartwood Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heartwood Heroes.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Heartwood Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heartwood Heroes.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Heartwood Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heartwood Heroes.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Heartwood Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Heartwood Heroes.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heartwood Heroes.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 Heartwood Heroes.

    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 ↗
  3. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heartwood Heroes.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Heartwood Heroes.

    『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.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heartwood Heroes.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Heartwood Heroes.

    Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. DOGWALK

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Heartwood Heroes.

    Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.

    2025IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Ludosity

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

  1. Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Ludosity, the studio behind Heartwood Heroes.

    Brawl it out with your Nickelodeon favorites in epic platform battles.

    2021Action49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Slap City

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Heartwood Heroes.

    Another title from Ludosity, the studio behind Heartwood Heroes. Shares Indie with Heartwood Heroes.

    Slap City is a Seriously Fun platform fighter with a perfect mix of characters from the Ludosity universe. Play Locally or Online. Slap it hard in Ranked or fast and loose in Slap Ball game mode. We are the original inventors of Clutch Technology.

    2020ActionIndie19.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Card City Nights

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Heartwood Heroes.

    Another title from Ludosity, the studio behind Heartwood Heroes. Shares Indie and Casual with Heartwood Heroes.

    Card City Nights is not a traditional card-trading game. It's an adventure game with zany characters to meet and weird locations to explore. In the center is our new card battle system that breaks away from the fantasy TCG mold with connecting cards to form combos.

    2014IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Ittle Dew

    WHY THIS

    Shares a lighthearted mood with Heartwood Heroes.

    Another title from Ludosity, the studio behind Heartwood Heroes. Shares Indie with Heartwood Heroes.

    Adventuress Ittle Dew and her sidekick Tippsie crash onto a strange island, filled with loot and mysterious inhabitants. It quickly dawns on the duo that this might become their biggest adventure yet.Ittle Dew boils down the classic adventure formula until there is only fun left.

    2013IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Princess Remedy 2: In A Heap of Trouble

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Heartwood Heroes.

    Another title from Ludosity, the studio behind Heartwood Heroes. Shares Indie and RPG with Heartwood Heroes.

    An enormous Boss Tower has sprung from the ground, lifting entire towns up with it. Now, the people living on the tower are starting to contract all sorts of mysterious illnesses. Princess Remedy, still in Saturnian healing school, must use her powers to heal everyone and defeat the Boss Tower!

    2016ActionIndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. MURI

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Ludosity, the studio behind Heartwood Heroes.

    MURI is a DOS-style shooter from Remar Games and Ludosity. Features PC Speaker sound and 16-color EGA graphics.

    2013Action9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Ittle Dew 2+

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Heartwood Heroes.

    Another title from Ludosity, the studio behind Heartwood Heroes. Shares Indie and RPG with Heartwood Heroes.

    Ittle and Tippsie crash onto yet another island filled with loot, puzzles and mysterious inhabitants! With the help of a magical map, they set out to steal eight pieces of a raft from increasingly improbable locations including beaches, prairies, an art exhibit and some dude's basement.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Card City Nights 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Heartwood Heroes.

    Another title from Ludosity, the studio behind Heartwood Heroes. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heartwood Heroes.

    Adventure and Cards now back together! And remember, it's always night in space.

    2017StrategyIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Heartwood Heroes

Does Heartwood Heroes run on Steam Deck?
Heartwood Heroes 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 Heartwood Heroes cost?
Heartwood Heroes is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Heartwood Heroes have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Heartwood Heroes supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
What games are most similar to Heartwood Heroes?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heartwood Heroes are Party Club: Hangry Animals, Big Screen Games - Pack 1, Dice Ark.
Who developed Heartwood Heroes?
Heartwood Heroes was developed by Ludosity.

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