Games like Be My Horde
If Be My Horde is your kind of game, the closest matches are Yet Another Zombie Survivors, Halls of Torment and Achilles: Survivor — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, comedic and dark. 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 →Be My Horde is a challenging action roguelite that blends simulation and horde-management mechanics within a dark-humor fantasy setting. Developed and published by Polished Games, the 2024 release tasks players with raising fallen enemies as undead minions, building increasingly massive monster armies while enhancing their own abilities with devoured souls. The game features permadeath, procedural generation, combo-based combat, boss-fights, and significant build-variety. Reviewers highlight the dark-humor tone and memorable protagonist, noting multiple viable build combinations that encourage experimentation. Players describe the experience as dark, funny, and immersive, with the polished pixel art style and good music receiving particular praise. Verified to run on Steam Deck, the short solo experience carries an 84% positive rating from 1,299 Steam reviews at $9.99.
About Be My Horde: Be My Horde is a roguelite survivor where your minions fight for you. Become a formidable necromancer and turn your enemies into a resource! Raise fallen foes, build massive undead hordes, enhance your skills with devoured souls, and conquer the world – you’re the villain in this story.
Players who liked Be My Horde also play
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Yet Another Zombie Survivors
WHY THIS
Top pick for Be My Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Be My Horde.
The Horde is coming but you're ready to fight it! Assemble your team and decide upon their enhancements to find the most efficient synergies against thousands of the undead. Survive. Then evolve. Then break all the limits in this deceivingly simple but addictive bullet heaven game.
Halls of Torment
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Be My Horde.
Second-strongest match for Be My Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Be My Horde.
Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?
Achilles: Survivor
WHY THIS
Shares wave based survival, build variety, roguelite and a challenging mood with Be My Horde.
Third-strongest match for Be My Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Be My Horde.
Thousands of enemies. One survivor. Fight like a demigod, build deadly defenses, and grow stronger after every run in this fast-paced bullet heaven set in mythic Greece.
Conquest Dark
WHY THIS
Shares wave based survival, build variety, roguelite and an intense mood with Be My Horde.
Ranked #4 for Be My Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Be My Horde.
Experience an ARPG's rapid ascension to power in minutes, packed with savage, survivors-like action and devastating sword & sorcery combat. Perfect your builds through Dark Ritual runs that will decide humanity's future as you battle endless hordes across haunting ruins and cursed kingdoms.
Spellbook Demonslayers
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Be My Horde.
Ranked #5 for Be My Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Be My Horde.
Slay endless hordes of demons to protect the Cosmic Library! Steal their abilities, find powerful equipment, and unlock the secrets of each spellbook to become unstoppable! Will you be able to destroy the demonic legion?
Necrosmith
WHY THIS
Shares roguelite progression and a dark mood with Be My Horde.
Ranked #6 for Be My Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Be My Horde.
A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.
ScourgeBringer
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Be My Horde.
Ranked #7 for Be My Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Be My Horde.
ScourgeBringer is a fast-paced free-moving roguelite platformer. Help Kyhra to explore the unknown and slash her way through ancient machines guarding the seal of her past, and maybe the redemption of humanity.
NIMRODS
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Be My Horde.
Ranked #8 for Be My Horde fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Be My Horde.
Assemble a limitless arsenal in this survive-em-up roguelite shooter. As a Gun Manufacturer's testing force, your mission is simple: test the latest gun tech and scavenge alien planets. Collect insane weapon parts to invent crazy guns that slay thousands. You may not survive, but your guns will!
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Risk
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Be My Horde cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Draft! Attack! Fortify! Play the original game of strategy and world domination — now for your PC. Enjoy the classic look and fun of RISK in an exciting new interactive experience. Play two ways as you strategize over the map and set out to conquer the world.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Be My Horde.
Reviewers of Be My Horde cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Be My Horde.
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!
Skull Horde
WHY THIS
Shares wave based survival, build variety, roguelite and a dark mood with Be My Horde.
Reviewers of Be My Horde cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Be My Horde.
Skull Horde is an auto battler dungeon crawler where you play as a flying skull necromancer. Find powerful loot and create overpowered builds. Summon a horde of skeletons in a battle of bone versus flesh!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Be My Horde at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Be My Horde on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Be My Horde.
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
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Be My Horde.
Priced ~50% under Be My Horde on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Be My Horde.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Be My Horde on Steam right now. Shares Action with Be My Horde.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Be My Horde on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Be My Horde.
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 ~50% under Be My Horde on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Be My Horde.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Be My Horde on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Be My Horde.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Be My Horde on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Be My Horde.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Be My Horde on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Be My Horde.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Be My Horde.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Be My Horde.
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?
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 Be My Horde.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Be My Horde.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Be My Horde.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Be My Horde.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Be My Horde.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Yet Another Zombie Survivors
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Be My Horde.
The Horde is coming but you're ready to fight it! Assemble your team and decide upon their enhancements to find the most efficient synergies against thousands of the undead. Survive. Then evolve. Then break all the limits in this deceivingly simple but addictive bullet heaven game.
Halls of Torment
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Be My Horde.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Be My Horde.
Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?
Achilles: Survivor
WHY THIS
Shares wave based survival, build variety, roguelite and a challenging mood with Be My Horde.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Be My Horde.
Thousands of enemies. One survivor. Fight like a demigod, build deadly defenses, and grow stronger after every run in this fast-paced bullet heaven set in mythic Greece.
ScourgeBringer
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Be My Horde.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Be My Horde.
ScourgeBringer is a fast-paced free-moving roguelite platformer. Help Kyhra to explore the unknown and slash her way through ancient machines guarding the seal of her past, and maybe the redemption of humanity.
NIMRODS
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Be My Horde.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Be My Horde.
Assemble a limitless arsenal in this survive-em-up roguelite shooter. As a Gun Manufacturer's testing force, your mission is simple: test the latest gun tech and scavenge alien planets. Collect insane weapon parts to invent crazy guns that slay thousands. You may not survive, but your guns will!
Frequently asked about Be My Horde
- Is Be My Horde verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Be My Horde 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 Be My Horde cost?
- Be My Horde is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Be My Horde?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Be My Horde are Yet Another Zombie Survivors, Halls of Torment, Achilles: Survivor.
- Who developed Be My Horde?
- Be My Horde was developed by Polished Games.
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