Games like Happy Bastards
If Happy Bastards is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark, Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked and Veterum — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Happy Bastards: Virtue? That’s for suckers. But fame? Priceless. Assemble unruly bastards into a mercenary squad and build your legend through reckless adventuring, bloody fights, lucrative looting, and dirty dealings. Choose your battles, and your allies, in this irreverent open-world tactical RPG.
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Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Top pick for Happy Bastards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Happy Bastards.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Happy Bastards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Happy Bastards.
A cooperative tactical RPG set in the D&D universe. Embark on a fantasy tabletop adventure. Your quest, on your schedule.
Veterum
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Happy Bastards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Happy Bastards.
Turn-based tactical strategy with a detailed combat system and interactive environment. Explore the open world, complete quests, search for rare artifacts. Lead the last army of the Order of the Gatekeepers and stop the coming chaos!
Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Happy Bastards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Happy Bastards.
Veil of the Witch is a roguelite strategy RPG with turn-based combat and branching progression. Set in the world of “Lost Eidolons,” build a nimble squad of five, pick your skills as you level, and adapt to each unique run. May the gods favor the bold and the wise.
The Iron Oath
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Happy Bastards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Happy Bastards.
Command, endure, and prosper in The Iron Oath, a turn-based tactical RPG where the fate of your mercenary company rests on your decisions. Customize your roster, build your renown, and discover the secrets that await in the medieval fantasy realm of Caelum.
The Dragoness: Command of the Flame
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Happy Bastards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Happy Bastards.
The Dragoness mixes HOMM-like exploration, city-building and turn-based strategic combat, with a roguelite twist. Choose your battles, paths and skills as you explore a world ravaged by war. Gather and manage your army of beasts, collect resources and expand your city.
Telepath Tactics Liberated
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Happy Bastards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Happy Bastards.
An SRPG fan's SRPG! Imagine Fire Emblem with destructible battlefields; the ability to place traps; the ability to shove enemies off cliffs, into lava, or into each other; and a built-in campaign creator.
Forged of Blood
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Happy Bastards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Happy Bastards.
A fantasy turn-based tactical RPG built on depth and mechanical complexity, featuring classless character building, strategic management, and small unit tactics on a world scale.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Happy Bastards.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Happy Bastards.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Happy Bastards.
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!
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Happy Bastards.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Happy Bastards.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
THE FINALS
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
THE FINALS is the world’s first Dynamism Shooter, a free-to-play, fast-paced, physics-driven, first-person shooter set on the stage of the biggest Gameshow of the future! Fight for Fans and fortune in fully-destructible, virtual Arenas that guarantee no two rounds will ever play the same!
Path of Exile
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Happy Bastards.
You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.
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More from Clever Plays
Other recommendable Steam games by Clever Plays, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Operation: Tango
WHY THIS
Another title from Clever Plays, the studio behind Happy Bastards.
It takes two to save the world in this cooperative spy adventure. Pair up with a friend as Agent or Hacker—with only your voices to connect you—and work together to bring a hi-tech global menace to its knees. Now with a FREE CONTENT UPDATE!
Leap of Fate
WHY THIS
Another title from Clever Plays, the studio behind Happy Bastards. Shares Indie with Happy Bastards.
Leap of Fate is a furiously-paced cyberpunk roguelite about overcoming your fears and achieving your fate. In a New York City where magic is real, you play as a technomage who must develop unspeakable powers to confront the Crucible of Fates. Can you survive the trials?
Operation: Tango - Friend Pass
WHY THIS
Another title from Clever Plays, the studio behind Happy Bastards.
Download the Friend Pass and play for free with a friend who owns the full Operation: Tango game. It takes two to save the world, but it only takes one to pay for it.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Happy Bastards.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Happy Bastards.
A cooperative tactical RPG set in the D&D universe. Embark on a fantasy tabletop adventure. Your quest, on your schedule.
Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Happy Bastards.
Veil of the Witch is a roguelite strategy RPG with turn-based combat and branching progression. Set in the world of “Lost Eidolons,” build a nimble squad of five, pick your skills as you level, and adapt to each unique run. May the gods favor the bold and the wise.
Telepath Tactics Liberated
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Happy Bastards.
An SRPG fan's SRPG! Imagine Fire Emblem with destructible battlefields; the ability to place traps; the ability to shove enemies off cliffs, into lava, or into each other; and a built-in campaign creator.
Frequently asked about Happy Bastards
- What games are most similar to Happy Bastards?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Happy Bastards are Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark, Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked, Veterum.
- Who developed Happy Bastards?
- Happy Bastards was developed by Clever Plays.
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