Games like Bastard
If Bastard is your kind of game, the closest matches are Eisenwald: Blood of November, Legends of Eisenwald and Tactics & Strategy Master:Joan of Arc — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its contemplative, dark and grim. 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 Bastard: Are you used to being a noble knight in shining armor who protects the weak and punishes the evil ones? Sure, you might answer, everybody wants to see oneself as one - especially in a game. But did you consider which price you would have to pay for it in your real life?
Players who liked Bastard also play
Steam players who put hours into Bastard 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.
Eisenwald: Blood of November
WHY THIS
Shares turn based tactical combat and a dark mood with Bastard.
Top pick for Bastard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastard.
Eisenwald: Blood of November is a new sandbox adventure in the world of Eisenwald. Take up your arms and fight for your cause (and find out first who or what you want to be fighting for).
Legends of Eisenwald
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Bastard.
Second-strongest match for Bastard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastard.
Legends of Eisenwald is an adventure game with tactical battles, RPG and strategy elements. Take the lead of a small feudal army and try to defend your right to survive in this ruthless medieval world.
Tactics & Strategy Master:Joan of Arc
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Bastard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Bastard.
This is a game of S·RPG, which tells the story of the of Jane .As the second work of crossing the series, there is a great leap forward compared with the previous one.You can play strategy, also can nurture your favorite roles.Everything depends on your decision!
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Bastard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastard.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Winter Falling: Battle Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Bastard.
Ranked #5 for Bastard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastard.
Lead troops in tense tactical battles, just you and your brain against the dying world. Can you save it? Manage a mercenary company, scavenge supplies, build an army. Go on a quest! Burn down a village or two... Explore the rich medieval fantasy world in a mix of LOTR, Warhammer, FTL and Total War.
King's Bounty: Crossworlds
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Bastard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Bastard.
King’s Bounty: Crossworlds is a standalone expansion that includes Armored Princess, two additional campaigns, and a world editor, expanding the classic King’s Bounty formula with new challenges and content.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Bastard.
Ranked #7 for Bastard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastard.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Lost Eidolons
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Bastard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastard.
Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Bastard at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Bastard on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bastard.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Bastard on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Bastard.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Bastard on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastard.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Bastard on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bastard.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Bastard on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bastard.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Bastard on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Bastard.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Bastard on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bastard.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Bastard on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Bastard.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 Bastard.
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 Bastard.
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 Bastard.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bastard.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bastard.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bastard.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bastard.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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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.
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastard.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Bastard.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastard.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Lost Eidolons
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastard.
Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.
Frequently asked about Bastard
- How much does Bastard cost?
- Bastard is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Bastard?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bastard are Eisenwald: Blood of November, Legends of Eisenwald, Tactics & Strategy Master:Joan of Arc.
- Who developed Bastard?
- Bastard was developed by Aterdux Entertainment.
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.
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