Games like Bard's Gold
If Bard's Gold is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hell is Other Demons, Flinthook and Just Get Through — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its death teaches permanent upgrades, retro pixel art style and atmospheric. 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 Bard's Gold: Bard's Gold is a challenging platformer that let's you explore eerie worlds in a quest for a Goblin that stole your gold. Help the Bard to overcome the dungeon’s many dangerous perils and use your new-found treasures to improve your character and to buy new weapons and gear!
Players who liked Bard's Gold also play
Steam players who put hours into Bard's Gold 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.
Hell is Other Demons
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bard's Gold.
Top pick for Bard's Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements. Explore a sprawling, hand-crafted world full of demons, insanely over-the-top boss fights, and a heavy synthwave soundtrack.
Flinthook
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bard's Gold.
Second-strongest match for Bard's Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Live the life of space captain Flinthook! Armed with your mighty hookshot, your uncanny slow-motion powers and your trusty blasma pistol, plunder and fight your way through an infinite variety of randomly-assembled spaceships for treasure, loot and fame!
Just Get Through
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Bard's Gold.
Third-strongest match for Bard's Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Just Get Through is a randomly generated platformer with roguelike elements. Featuring a destructible environment, sandbox mode, user-created levels, various gamemodes, hardcore mode, color palettes, deadly traps, explosions and more.
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Bard's Gold.
Ranked #4 for Bard's Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Skul: The Hero Slayer
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Bard's Gold.
Ranked #5 for Bard's Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages.
Caveblazers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bard's Gold.
Ranked #6 for Bard's Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Bard's Gold.
Ranked #7 for Bard's Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
ScourgeBringer
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bard's Gold.
Ranked #8 for Bard's Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Bard's Gold at current Steam store prices.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Bard's Gold on Steam right now. Shares Action with Bard's Gold.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Bard's Gold on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
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 ~63% under Bard's Gold on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Bard's Gold on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bard's Gold.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Bard's Gold on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bard's Gold.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under Bard's Gold on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bard's Gold.
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 ~88% under Bard's Gold on Steam right now. Shares Action with Bard's Gold.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Bard's Gold on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bard's Gold.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Flinthook
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bard's Gold.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Live the life of space captain Flinthook! Armed with your mighty hookshot, your uncanny slow-motion powers and your trusty blasma pistol, plunder and fight your way through an infinite variety of randomly-assembled spaceships for treasure, loot and fame!
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Bard's Gold.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Caveblazers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bard's Gold.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Bard's Gold.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
ScourgeBringer
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bard's Gold.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Bard's Gold.
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.
Frequently asked about Bard's Gold
- How much does Bard's Gold cost?
- Bard's Gold is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Bard's Gold?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bard's Gold are Hell is Other Demons, Flinthook, Just Get Through.
- Who developed Bard's Gold?
- Bard's Gold was developed by Pixel Lantern.
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 Bard's Gold.
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