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Games like BattleBeasts

If BattleBeasts is your kind of game, the closest matches are ORMOD: Directive, Dark and Light and BadLads — 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 BattleBeasts: Planet Shima attracts adventure seekers from all over the Galaxy BB-79 due to its unique resources. The mysterious effects on this planet made Artificial Intelligence of Shima aggressive towards all intelligent species of animals.

2021ActionIndieAdventureSimulationMassively MultiplayerEarly Access4.99 USDWindowsby Oleg Shestoperov
BattleBeasts — Steam game cover

Players who liked BattleBeasts also play

Steam players who put hours into BattleBeasts 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. ORMOD: Directive

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for BattleBeasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BattleBeasts.

    Shape your own survival experience in an infinite open-world sandbox. Customize world difficulty, rules, and playstyle. Play solo, co-op, or on 24/7 MMO-style servers across PvP, PvE, Hardcore, or Creative modes as you build, automate, fight, and survive. The choice is yours.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Dark and Light

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for BattleBeasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with BattleBeasts.

    Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.

    2017ActionAdventureSimulation17.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. BadLads

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for BattleBeasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BattleBeasts.

    BadLads is a neo-noir multiplayer roleplay game centered around each player having their own job. Cities are ruled by President. Civilians are assaulted by Gangs and protected by Police. Adventure, collect, craft, base build, gamble, socialize, overthrow, customize yourself and your belongings.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  4. Fear the Night - 恐惧之夜

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for BattleBeasts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with BattleBeasts.

    In Fear the Night, you are a survivor in a world plagued with zombies. Team up with other survivors and work together to rebuild society from its ashes or choose to trust no one and go your own way in a lawless world.

    2019ActionAdventureSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Ancient Siberia

    WHY THIS

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

    Survival Sandbox MMO RPG which tells you about survival in Ancient Siberia. Users will have to fight with monsters, to build their own castles, to use magic, to participate in naval battles and tournaments, to join guilds and create their own clans. In Ancient Siberia only strongest survive.

    2017ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. bit Dungeon III

    WHY THIS

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

    bitDungeonIII is a 2d action adventure game with rogue-lite elements. Randomly generated overworld and dungeons. Make allies with other players or kill them for their precious inventory items. Discover random items that greatly enhance and affect your character.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Stone Rage

    WHY THIS

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

    Stone Rage is a prehistoric, open-world survival game. Play as a Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal and shape-shift into beasts as you secure your place in a harsh landscape of dangerous animals, scarce resources, and unforgiving climates. Make friends and enemies. Build. Fight. Survive.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure8.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. WARMA

    WHY THIS

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

    WARMA is a multiplayer game about a showdown between the police and bandits! Robbery, chases, tuning and much more!

    2018ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under BattleBeasts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with BattleBeasts.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under BattleBeasts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with BattleBeasts.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under BattleBeasts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with BattleBeasts.

    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.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under BattleBeasts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with BattleBeasts.

    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.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under BattleBeasts on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with BattleBeasts.

    The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under BattleBeasts on Steam right now. Shares Action with BattleBeasts.

    You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.

    2009Action2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under BattleBeasts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with BattleBeasts.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under BattleBeasts on Steam right now. Shares Action with BattleBeasts.

    Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.

    2009Action2.49 USDSteam ↗

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 BattleBeasts.

    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 BattleBeasts.

    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 BattleBeasts.

    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 BattleBeasts.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

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

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 BattleBeasts.

    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 ↗
  8. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with BattleBeasts.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about BattleBeasts

How much does BattleBeasts cost?
BattleBeasts is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does BattleBeasts have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — BattleBeasts supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
What games are most similar to BattleBeasts?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside BattleBeasts are ORMOD: Directive, Dark and Light, BadLads.
Who developed BattleBeasts?
BattleBeasts was developed by Oleg Shestoperov.

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 BattleBeasts.

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