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Games like Bastard's Throne

If Bastard's Throne is your kind of game, the closest matches are Azmar Quest - Text Based RPG, The Great Wastes and Meridian — 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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About Bastard's Throne: You are the Bastard, the secret heir to the dead King. The throne is yours, but the kingdom is ablaze with intrigue. Every decision is fateful: execute the traitors? Marry for convenience? Start a war? Weave conspiracies, uncover secrets, choose the path to greatness or ruin. Rule or perish!

StrategyIndieSimulationRPGCasualWindows · Linuxby Little True Team
Bastard's Throne — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Bastard's Throne 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. Azmar Quest - Text Based RPG

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Bastard's Throne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastard's Throne.

    Azmar Quest is a text-based RPG with turn-based battles and old-school vibes. Choose your class from Warrior, Cleric, Witch or Archer, follow a 20-hour story, make choices that can change the ending, and fight 100+ enemies. You can also play online PvP battles and co-op Dungeons.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. The Great Wastes

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Bastard's Throne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastard's Throne.

    "The Great Wastes" is a pixelated fantasy RPG. Players take on the role of a mysterious young man living in an isolated village. One day, the village is suddenly attacked by a group of unidentified black-clad individuals, forcing the young man to flee with his childhood sweetheart and companions.

    2026StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  3. Meridian

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Bastard's Throne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Bastard's Throne.

    A choice-driven cyberpunk RPG with tactical turn-based combat. Talk, sneak, hack, or fight your way through branching jobs. Solve every job your way, and pay for each upgrade with a piece of who you are.

    2026IndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. The Legend of Fancy Realm Remake

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Bastard's Throne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Bastard's Throne.

    The Legend of Fancy Realm Remake is a story driven tactical RPG that brings a long cherished SRPG classic back to life. Set in a vast fantasy world shaped by ancient wars, the game weaves together turn based tactical combat and character focused storytelling, where every decision carries weight.

    2026StrategyAdventureRPG22.49 USDSteam ↗
  5. Erevael

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Bastard's Throne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Bastard's Throne.

    Explorer. Merchant. Diplomat. Mage. You decide who you become. Erevael is a generational fantasy RPG set in a world the Veil left dark - follow the paths that fit your style, master them, and pass everything you build to the heir who comes next.

    2026StrategyAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  6. Company Captain: Westashes

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Bastard's Throne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastard's Throne.

    You are the captain of a free company — one among many roaming this mercenary world, growing, falling, earning and betraying just as you do. The world will not bend for you, nor wait: the other companies are already writing their stories. Yours will be decided in steel, gold and a name.

    StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  7. Verlicia Saga

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Bastard's Throne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastard's Throne.

    Verlicia Saga is a fantasy, turn-based tactical RPG. Command a growing army across a branching campaign of grid battles: master the weapon triangle, promote and reclass your soldiers, forge bonds and marriages, and face permadeath where every fallen hero stays lost.

    2026StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. SRD: Slightly Random Dungeons

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Bastard's Throne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastard's Throne.

    A tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG) simulator. Gather a company of quarrelsome mercenaries and set forth through the adventures of the Guilds and Gutters Campaign setting, or use the intuitive adventure building tools to craft your own campaign to challenge your friends or unleash upon the world.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. A Date with Death

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Bastard's Throne.

    Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Bastard's Throne.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Bastard's Throne.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeSteam ↗
  4. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Bastard's Throne.

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 with Bastard's Throne.

    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.

    2025IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. No Results Found

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Bastard's Throne.

    Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  7. Saihate Station

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Bastard's Throne.

    An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.

    2025IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Moonring

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Bastard's Throne.

    A dark-fantasy, turn-based, retro-fusion of classic turn-based RPGs and roguelikes, all presented with a unique neon aesthetic.

    2023RPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Bastard's Throne

What games are most similar to Bastard's Throne?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bastard's Throne are Azmar Quest - Text Based RPG, The Great Wastes, Meridian.
Who developed Bastard's Throne?
Bastard's Throne was developed by Little True Team.

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 Bastard's Throne.

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