Games like King's Bounty: Dark Side
If King's Bounty: Dark Side is your kind of game, the closest matches are King's Bounty: Warriors of the North, King's Bounty: Crossworlds and King's Bounty: Armored Princess — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging 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 →About King's Bounty: Dark Side: Time has come to begin a Dark Journey to the other side of Teana and explore a mysterious region never before seen by royal bounty hunters. King’s Bounty: Dark Side lets you play as the villains in a full standalone campaign with new heroes, dark factions, and a fresh tactical perspective.
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King's Bounty: Warriors of the North
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Shares an atmospheric mood with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Top pick for King's Bounty: Dark Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North is a standalone entry of the beloved tactical RPG series set in the world of The Legend, generations after its events. You will lead a Viking hero, wield Rune Magic, command Valkyries, and defend the northern lands of Endoria from an undead invasion.
King's Bounty: Crossworlds
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Shares a challenging mood with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Second-strongest match for King's Bounty: Dark Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
King’s Bounty: Crossworlds is a standalone expansion that includes Armored Princess, two additional campaigns, and a world editor, expanding the classic King’s Bounty formula with new challenges and content.
King's Bounty: Armored Princess
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Shares a challenging mood with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Third-strongest match for King's Bounty: Dark Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
King’s Bounty: Armored Princess builds on the foundation of The Legend, expanding the classic formula with deeper turn-based tactics, a huge hand-crafted world, and new mechanics that change how you approach battles and progression.
King's Bounty: The Legend
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Shares an atmospheric mood with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Ranked #4 for King's Bounty: Dark Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
King’s Bounty: The Legend is a fan-favorite classic fantasy adventure and an early entry into the modern King’s Bounty era, built around tough battles, smart decisions, and turn-based tactics.
King's Bounty II
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Shares a challenging mood with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Ranked #5 for King's Bounty: Dark Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Legend returns! King’s Bounty II is the long-awaited sequel to the legendary King’s Bounty video games franchise, one of the most iconic representatives of the turn-based RPG genre.
Blackguards 2
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Shares grid based combat and an atmospheric mood with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Ranked #6 for King's Bounty: Dark Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Blackguards 2 is a turn-based strategy-RPG and will deliver challenging hexfield battles and a gritty story filled with violence and crime. - Includes bonus content: Soundtrack, digital Art Book and Strategy Guide Book!
Reverse Crawl
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Ranked #7 for King's Bounty: Dark Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
A dungeon crawl where YOU are the dungeon! Lead your minions in tactical turn-based combat against the pesky heroes, and unlock a variety of evil Powers. With a dynamic campaign system and a branching storyline, "Reverse Crawl" lets you experience an RPG from a whole new angle!
Age of Wonders III
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Shares a challenging mood with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Ranked #8 for King's Bounty: Dark Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Age of Wonders III is the long anticipated sequel to the award-winning strategy series. Delivering a unique mix of Empire Building, Role Playing and Warfare, Age of Wonders III offers the ultimate in turn-based fantasy strategy for veterans of the series and new players alike!
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King's Bounty: Warriors of the North
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Shares an atmospheric mood with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Reviewers of King's Bounty: Dark Side cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North is a standalone entry of the beloved tactical RPG series set in the world of The Legend, generations after its events. You will lead a Viking hero, wield Rune Magic, command Valkyries, and defend the northern lands of Endoria from an undead invasion.
King's Bounty: Armored Princess
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Shares a challenging mood with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Reviewers of King's Bounty: Dark Side cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
King’s Bounty: Armored Princess builds on the foundation of The Legend, expanding the classic formula with deeper turn-based tactics, a huge hand-crafted world, and new mechanics that change how you approach battles and progression.
Heroes of Might & Magic V
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Shares a challenging mood with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Reviewers of King's Bounty: Dark Side cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Witness the amazing evolution of the genre-defining strategy game as it becomes a next-generation phenomenon, melding classic deep fantasy with next-generation visuals and gameplay. In the renowned Might & Magic universe, demon swarms spread chaos over the land in a relentless assault.
King's Bounty: The Legend
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Shares an atmospheric mood with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Reviewers of King's Bounty: Dark Side cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
King’s Bounty: The Legend is a fan-favorite classic fantasy adventure and an early entry into the modern King’s Bounty era, built around tough battles, smart decisions, and turn-based tactics.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel
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Shares an atmospheric mood with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Reviewers of King's Bounty: Dark Side cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
At Thors Military Academy, Erebonia’s best learn everything from the art of war to liberal arts. First year Rean Schwarzer learns he’s been selected to join the controversial Class VII, and they’ll need to deal with more than just class warfare--they’ll need to safeguard their country from chaos.
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Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below King's Bounty: Dark Side at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~62% under King's Bounty: Dark Side on Steam right now. Shares RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
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!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Shares a challenging mood with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Priced ~42% under King's Bounty: Dark Side on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~52% under King's Bounty: Dark Side on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~62% under King's Bounty: Dark Side on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
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.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~62% under King's Bounty: Dark Side on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Brotato
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Priced ~62% under King's Bounty: Dark Side on Steam right now. Shares RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~62% under King's Bounty: Dark Side on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
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Priced ~62% under King's Bounty: Dark Side on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
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Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
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.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
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Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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).
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
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!
Trick & Treat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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More from Fulqrum Publishing
Other recommendable Steam games by Fulqrum Publishing, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
King's Bounty: The Legend
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Another title from Fulqrum Publishing, the studio behind King's Bounty: Dark Side. Shares Strategy and RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
King’s Bounty: The Legend is a fan-favorite classic fantasy adventure and an early entry into the modern King’s Bounty era, built around tough battles, smart decisions, and turn-based tactics.
King's Bounty: Warriors of the North
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Another title from Fulqrum Publishing, the studio behind King's Bounty: Dark Side. Shares Strategy and RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North is a standalone entry of the beloved tactical RPG series set in the world of The Legend, generations after its events. You will lead a Viking hero, wield Rune Magic, command Valkyries, and defend the northern lands of Endoria from an undead invasion.
Men of War: Vietnam
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Another title from Fulqrum Publishing, the studio behind King's Bounty: Dark Side. Shares Strategy with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Men of War: Vietnam brings the acclaimed real-time tactics series into a new theater of war – the jungles of Southeast Asia, 1968. Experience the chaos of the Vietnam War through two story-driven campaigns that reveal both sides of the conflict.
Men of War: Red Tide
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Shares an atmospheric mood with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Another title from Fulqrum Publishing, the studio behind King's Bounty: Dark Side. Shares Strategy with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Red Tide blends deep RTS tactics with the raw intensity of third-person combat. Created in collaboration with author Alexander Zorich, this standalone expansion tells the story of the Black Coats – Soviet Naval Infantry famed for their ruthless precision in the Black Sea campaigns.
Men of War: Condemned Heroes
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Another title from Fulqrum Publishing, the studio behind King's Bounty: Dark Side. Shares Strategy with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Command a Soviet penal battalion in this standalone real-time tactics game from the Men of War series. Based on true events, Condemned Heroes delivers brutal, story-driven missions across the Eastern Front – where every order, bullet, and life matters.
Planet Alcatraz
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Shares an atmospheric mood with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Another title from Fulqrum Publishing, the studio behind King's Bounty: Dark Side. Shares RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Planet Alcatraz is a 3D role playing game with isometric projection. The player travels through the game world and fights against enemies in the real-time mode.Several genres are mixed in this game but despite that fact it isn't stuck between them and appears to be a classical RPG that is based on a specially developed system.
Planet Alcatraz 2
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Shares an atmospheric mood with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Another title from Fulqrum Publishing, the studio behind King's Bounty: Dark Side. Shares RPG with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
The sequel to Planet Alcatraz tells the story of sergeant Hartman, the leader of the Ghoul strike unit, that remained MIA in the original game. Only Russian language is supported at the time of Steam release.
Theatre of War
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Another title from Fulqrum Publishing, the studio behind King's Bounty: Dark Side. Shares Strategy with King's Bounty: Dark Side.
Command a special task force composed of different kinds of units, including tanks, APCs, field guns, mortars, various infantry regiments and will also have an opportunity to call for artillery and air support.
Frequently asked about King's Bounty: Dark Side
- Does King's Bounty: Dark Side run on Steam Deck?
- King's Bounty: Dark Side 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 King's Bounty: Dark Side cost?
- King's Bounty: Dark Side is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to King's Bounty: Dark Side?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside King's Bounty: Dark Side are King's Bounty: Warriors of the North, King's Bounty: Crossworlds, King's Bounty: Armored Princess.
- Who developed King's Bounty: Dark Side?
- King's Bounty: Dark Side was developed by Fulqrum Publishing.
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