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Games like Heart&Slash

If Heart&Slash is your kind of game, the closest matches are Berserker's Descent, Metal Bringer and Ironweld — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Heart&Slash: Fight as Heart, an innocent robot fighting to escape the grip of mindless machines in a future where humans are no more. A fast-paced 3D brawler with roguelike elements set in a colorful yet desolated world.

2016ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindows · macOS · Linuxby AHEARTFULOFGAMES
Heart&Slash — Steam game cover
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Replayability through randomized runs and upgradesSatisfying boss fights after overcoming frustrationStory between the two robots is heartfelt and charmingAtmosphericChallengingContemplative

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Steam players who put hours into Heart&Slash 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. Berserker's Descent

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Heart&Slash.

    Top pick for Heart&Slash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Heart&Slash.

    Berserker's Descent is a visceral, hardcore Roguelite. Descend into The Source and engage in brutal melee combat.

    2020Action9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Metal Bringer

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Heart&Slash.

    Second-strongest match for Heart&Slash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heart&Slash.

    In this roguelike action-adventure, control humanoid "Labor" and giant "Arms" to uncover the mysteries of the world. Create fully-customizable robots, strengthen them, and take down hordes of enemies!

    2025ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ironweld

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Heart&Slash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Heart&Slash.

    Ironweld is a 2D side-scrolling action game. Chain combos into air launchers, swap your jab for a sword slash, your finisher for a meteor kick, and equip parts that turn blocking into counter-attacks. Recruit allies and push deeper into a broken world.

    2026ActionRPGSteam ↗
  4. Samurai Bringer

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Heart&Slash.

    Ranked #4 for Heart&Slash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heart&Slash.

    Samurai Bringer is a roguelite action game with levels which change with every playthrough, where you cut down hordes of Samurai and Demons to collect combat techniques and polish your fighting style in order to defeat Yamata-no-Orochi, the eight-headed dragon of Japanese mythology.

    2022ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Xenrai

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Heart&Slash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heart&Slash.

    Save the last world in a solar system of living planets being consumed by an invading interstellar army, playing as the world's champion and its goddess. Take on the epic full length campaign and competitive combat focused challenge mode that awaits you in this Sci-Fi spectacle fighter epic.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. King Static

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Heart&Slash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heart&Slash.

    King Static is a third-person stylish action rogue-like where you fight in the King's endlessly repeating tournament in-order to have a single wish granted.

    2025ActionIndieEarly Access7.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Shing!

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Heart&Slash.

    Ranked #7 for Heart&Slash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heart&Slash.

    Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!

    2020ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Cenk The Chopper

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Heart&Slash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heart&Slash.

    Cenk The Chopper is a fast paced hack-and-slash game. Fight through hordes of mutants and robots in a world you've made go to hell. Chop 'em up everything you see till the end of it.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Heart&Slash at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Heart&Slash on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heart&Slash.

    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 Heart&Slash on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heart&Slash.

    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. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Heart&Slash on Steam right now. Shares Action with Heart&Slash.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Heart&Slash on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heart&Slash.

    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 ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Heart&Slash on Steam right now. Shares Action with Heart&Slash.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Heart&Slash on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heart&Slash.

    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 ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Heart&Slash on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heart&Slash.

    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 ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Heart&Slash on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heart&Slash.

    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 ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heart&Slash.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Heart&Slash.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heart&Slash.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Heart&Slash.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. 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 Heart&Slash.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heart&Slash.

    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 ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heart&Slash.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Heart&Slash.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from AHEARTFULOFGAMES

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

  1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Heart&Slash.

    Another title from AHEARTFULOFGAMES, the studio behind Heart&Slash. Shares Action and Adventure with Heart&Slash.

    Join the Turtle brothers straight from the sewers and slide into this new adventure of shell-shocking proportions!

    2024ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. DreamWorks Spirit Lucky's Big Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Heart&Slash.

    Another title from AHEARTFULOFGAMES, the studio behind Heart&Slash. Shares Action and Adventure with Heart&Slash.

    Explore the wild frontier with Lucky’s faithful mustang, Spirit, and best friends, Abigail and Pru. Where will friendship, and a mysterious treasure map lead you?

    2021ActionAdventure7.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. DreamWorks Dragons: Legends of The Nine Realms

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Heart&Slash.

    Another title from AHEARTFULOFGAMES, the studio behind Heart&Slash. Shares Action and Adventure with Heart&Slash.

    Unleash your inner dragon and fly beyond the Hidden World, on a fiery adventure to rescue Thunder’s family and save the dragon kingdoms!

    2022ActionAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Heart&Slash

Is Heart&Slash verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Heart&Slash 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 Heart&Slash cost?
Heart&Slash is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Heart&Slash?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heart&Slash are Berserker's Descent, Metal Bringer, Ironweld.
Who developed Heart&Slash?
Heart&Slash was developed by AHEARTFULOFGAMES and published by Full Hearts Games.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Heart&Slash.

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