Games like Barbarians & Beasts
If Barbarians & Beasts is your kind of game, the closest matches are Animal Crusaders, Cliché Adventure and Project: KNOSSOS — 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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Animal Crusaders
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Top pick for Barbarians & Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Barbarians & Beasts.
Crusade to distant lands and fight your friends in this chaotic 4 player skill based brawler or play survival alone. Defeat players and AI in order to unlock unique projectiles, weapons, magic, and cosmetics. Use spacing and custom loadouts to defeat your foes in battle.
Cliché Adventure
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Barbarians & Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarians & Beasts.
Cliché Adventure is an open world top down adventure game. It can be played as single player, or with a friend. The game has five unique regions joined by a hub world. Each area contains an over world, a cave system, and a temple to explore. There are Six main boss fights, and twenty mini bosses.
Project: KNOSSOS
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Barbarians & Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarians & Beasts.
Brawl it out as ancient greek warriors with whacky power-ups in old temples. For 2-8 players on a single screen!
River City: Rival Showdown
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Barbarians & Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Barbarians & Beasts.
River City Ransom is back, rebuilt from the ground up! Rekindle old rivalries and relive past rumbles through a completely revamped story!
Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Barbarians & Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Barbarians & Beasts.
Watch as this nostalgic yet completely reimagined storybook world unravels before your very eyes. Taking cues from both Ghosts 'n Goblins and Ghouls 'n Ghosts and giving birth to something entirely new, Resurrection is a title worthy of its name.
Outer Terror
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Barbarians & Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarians & Beasts.
DON’T DIE as you assemble a ridiculous arsenal of weapons and desperately hold out against massive hordes of creatures pulled from a variety of classic horror genres reminiscent of 80s and 90s Golden Age comics and B-movies in this stylish action-packed arcade roguelite.
Kingdom of Night
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Barbarians & Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarians & Beasts.
Hunt down nightmarish demons and save the town of Miami, AZ in this 80s-themed, isometric action-RPG. With an expansive, interconnected map and open-ended quests, explore freely while unraveling the main story. Kingdom of Night is a unique blend of coming-of-age drama, cosmic horror, and true love.
Shing!
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Barbarians & Beasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarians & Beasts.
Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Barbarians & Beasts at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Barbarians & Beasts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarians & Beasts.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Barbarians & Beasts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Barbarians & Beasts.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~57% under Barbarians & Beasts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Barbarians & Beasts.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Barbarians & Beasts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Barbarians & Beasts.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Barbarians & Beasts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Barbarians & Beasts.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Barbarians & Beasts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Barbarians & Beasts.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Barbarians & Beasts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Barbarians & Beasts.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Barbarians & Beasts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarians & Beasts.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
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UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarians & Beasts.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarians & Beasts.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Barbarians & Beasts.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarians & Beasts.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Barbarians & Beasts.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Barbarians & Beasts.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
The Children of Clay
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Barbarians & Beasts.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarians & Beasts.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
River City: Rival Showdown
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Barbarians & Beasts.
River City Ransom is back, rebuilt from the ground up! Rekindle old rivalries and relive past rumbles through a completely revamped story!
Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Barbarians & Beasts.
Watch as this nostalgic yet completely reimagined storybook world unravels before your very eyes. Taking cues from both Ghosts 'n Goblins and Ghouls 'n Ghosts and giving birth to something entirely new, Resurrection is a title worthy of its name.
Kingdom of Night
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Barbarians & Beasts.
Hunt down nightmarish demons and save the town of Miami, AZ in this 80s-themed, isometric action-RPG. With an expansive, interconnected map and open-ended quests, explore freely while unraveling the main story. Kingdom of Night is a unique blend of coming-of-age drama, cosmic horror, and true love.
Frequently asked about Barbarians & Beasts
- How much does Barbarians & Beasts cost?
- Barbarians & Beasts is listed on Steam at 3.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Barbarians & Beasts have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Barbarians & Beasts 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 Barbarians & Beasts?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Barbarians & Beasts are Animal Crusaders, Cliché Adventure, Project: KNOSSOS.
- Who developed Barbarians & Beasts?
- Barbarians & Beasts was developed by Imperiarte Games.
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