Games like Borstal
If Borstal is your kind of game, the closest matches are Merge Hero, Astronaut: The Best and Infinite Survival — 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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Merge Hero
WHY THIS
Top pick for Borstal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Borstal.
An idle RPG game with infinite possibilities. Merge items, upgrade stats and fight deadly monsters and bosses
Astronaut: The Best
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Borstal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Borstal.
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
Infinite Survival
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Borstal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Borstal.
Infinite Survival is a roguelike survival game with turn-based gameplay. The game features a completely procedurally generated open world. Craft new items and weapons, lay traps and defences, use stealth to evade enemies, and explore in any fashion you want.
Floor44
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Borstal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Borstal.
Floor44 is a hardcore luckiness detector kinda game with randomly generated maps, the goal is to make it to the top floor. You can rely on your skills to reach floor30, but you'll need more than that to make it to Floor44.
Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Borstal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Borstal.
Build and command your own party of Dwarves in this mix of RPGs, roguelike and auto battlers. Prepare formations, assign equipment, and decide the fate of up to 10 Beardlings, as you lead the raid through reckless runs filled with Glory, Death, and Loot!
Drawngeon: Dungeons of Ink and Paper
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Borstal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Borstal.
Inkland - the hand-drawn unusual world. Reveal the secret of the Mysterious Tower in this old-school role-playing game with a first-person perspective, real-time combat and grid-based movement.
AI Roguelite
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Borstal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Borstal.
World's first RPG in which all entities are AI-generated and all game mechanics are AI-directed.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Borstal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Borstal.
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!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Borstal at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Borstal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Borstal.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Borstal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Borstal.
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 ~67% under Borstal on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Borstal.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Borstal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Borstal.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Borstal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Borstal.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Borstal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Borstal.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Borstal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Borstal.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Borstal.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Borstal.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Borstal.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Borstal.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Borstal.
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.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Borstal.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Borstal.
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.
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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.
Astronaut: The Best
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Borstal.
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Borstal.
Build and command your own party of Dwarves in this mix of RPGs, roguelike and auto battlers. Prepare formations, assign equipment, and decide the fate of up to 10 Beardlings, as you lead the raid through reckless runs filled with Glory, Death, and Loot!
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Borstal.
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!
Frequently asked about Borstal
- How much does Borstal cost?
- Borstal is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Borstal?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Borstal are Merge Hero, Astronaut: The Best, Infinite Survival.
- Who developed Borstal?
- Borstal was developed by The Secret Pie.
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