Games like A Bastard's Tale

Hooked on the retro and fast-paced side of A Bastard's Tale? Start with these games when you are ready.

Driven Out
Beautiful 16 bit retro art style with fluid animations and deliberate combat. Read the enemy and act accordingly in this seamless world without any load screens.
Retro, Fast-paced, Tense
84% of 230 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Bleak Sword DX
Discover and destroy increasingly horrifying creatures across an oppressive lofi world, wielding fierce weaponry and powerful magic in this pocket-sized action adventure.
Retro, Fast-paced, Tense
76% of 656 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
First Cut: Samurai Duel
A pixel-art sword duel where every strike kills. Aim your blade high, low or middle, parry, dodge and shove, and one clean cut ends the fight, often with a limb or two flying. Duels with friends, survival waves, a scenario campaign and silly modifiers make it easy to keep coming back for one more clash.
Retro, Fast-paced, Tense
87% of 2,034 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$8.99
Slash or Die
In this game you will face violence and extraordinary complexity. You will have to become one of three heroes to slash enemies or to die from their hands. What will your hero do? It depends only on your skills…
Retro, Fast-paced, Tense
84% of 150 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Frenzy Retribution
A fast, brutal third-person action game where you play an orc girl cutting through a sci-fi city. There are no heal items: the only way back from a mistake is to stun an enemy and execute them to take their blood. High penalty, high reward, and a fight that never lets up.
Fast-paced, Tense
74% of 1,569 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Unto The End
Master tactical sword fighting combat, or discover ways to avoid bloodshed. A journey that trusts you from beginning to end.
Retro, Tense, Minimalist
73% of 386 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Furi
A boss rush where every fight is a duel: sword, blaster, parries and dodges against guardians who each fight differently.
Fast-paced, Tense
90% of 11,306 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$19.99
En Garde!
En Garde! is a swashbuckling action game about Adalia de Volador, legendary duelist and hero of the people. Parry, riposte and lunge through 17th century Spain, flinging jugs, barrels and chandeliers at graceless guards while trading one-liners. Fast, funny and painted like a storybook, it teaches a cruel Count-Duke a lesson in style.
Fast-paced
90% of 4,238 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
Way of the Passive Fist
Way of the Passive Fist is a unique and colorful arcade brawler. Parry, Dodge and Dash to outwit and outlast your enemies on a desolate planet ruled by raiders, mutants and fanatical sun worshipers. It's a new kind of tactical fighting in the licensed arcade brawler for the 90s cartoon you wish existed.
Retro, Fast-paced, Tense
83% of 183 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
LIBLADE
Slash, slash, slash. Sometimes you have to dance, sometimes you have to be precise. "LIBLADE" is a side-scrolling action game where you slash and slash by playing the stick. Use the twin-stick slash action to slash down everything and defeat the strongest enemies that stand in your way.
Retro, Fast-paced, Tense
94% of 121 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Unsouled
Unsouled is a 2D action RPG game requiring immense elaborate control. Take a break from repetitive attack and dodge action by challenging yourself with the world of Unsouled.
Retro, Fast-paced, Tense
71% of 270 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Bloodless
Stylish, action-adventure game featuring counter-based, non-lethal combat centered around ronin Tomoe's signature dash-counter mechanic, fighting with nothing but her bare fists to disarm her former allies, the samurai army of Shogun Akechi.
Retro, Fast-paced, Tense
81% of 136 Steam reviews are positive$14.99

Cheaper than A Bastard's Tale

Berserk or Die

This is an action game in which players attempt to survive by defeating a number of enemies which appear from the left and right sides of the screen.

$3.99

David.

A short, tough, minimalist boss-fighter. You are David: a tiny square with a slingshot-like power, facing giant physics-beasts across a 9-level…

$1.99

A Bloody Night

A Bloody Night is a fast action game where the goal is to tear apart all the enemies you encounter in your way.

$2.99

The Vagrant

Chase a lost father's trail as a sellsword, cutting through monsters and bosses in fast side-scrolling combat with multiple endings.

$3.99

PARRYMAN

'Parryman' is a hardcore action game where you fight using only the counterattack skill of parrying.

$4.89

Broken Armor

A knight exiled from his kingdom must find the holy grail if he is to return.

$0.49

Diabolic

Spend your skill points your way, cut through swarming mobs with three fighting styles, and carve a path to the dragon waiting at the end.

$2.99

Bat to Bed

A punishing yet friendly get-to-the-top adventure across a haunted, retro-inspired world.

$3.99

Fearless Fantasy

As Leon, the world’s most dangerous bounty hunter, you embark on a mission to slay the world’s weirdest creatures, and save a girl from an awful…

$1.39

Knightmare Tower

Break through ceilings, rescue princesses and escape boiling lava as you slash your way to the top of the Knightmare Tower!

$3.99

Super Dungeon Boy

2D platform game focused on intense combat against enemies and exploration of secret areas in dark dungeons full of dangers.

$2.99

Strength of the Sword ULTIMATE

A Fighting game combined with a BRAWLER! With a huge sword, rocket launcher and a FLAMETHROWER!

$0.99

Hidden gems like A Bastard's Tale

Demon Lord: Just a Block

A mighty Demon Lord wakes up as, well, a block. Fight your way back to the throne in an action roguelite where the world only moves when you do…

$10.39

Shady Knight

Shady Knight is a first-person skill-driven melee action game centered around swift swordplay, acrobatic archery, and fluid platforming that…

$19.99

Solateria

A hand-drawn 2D metroidvania where parrying is everything. A small fire warrior with no memories crosses a land ruined by the Shadow Plague, learns…

$13.99

Slash Quest

Slash Quest is a quirky action adventure with unconventional controls and unlikely heroes.

$4.99

AWAKEN - Astral Blade

Guide the bionic warrior Tania through a hand-drawn dark fantasy world, where fast, demanding combat and hidden paths lead to a mystery told piece…

$19.99

First Cut: Samurai Duel

Aim your blade, read your rival, and settle pixel-art sword duels where a single strike can decide everything.

$8.99

Cursorblade

A bullet hell roguelite where your cursor slashes through waves of enemies while you dodge everything they throw back.

$4.99

Bloodless

Stylish, action-adventure game featuring counter-based, non-lethal combat centered around ronin Tomoe's signature dash-counter mechanic, fighting…

$14.99

En Garde!

Duel your way across 17th century Spain as a legendary swordswoman, turning clumsy guards and furniture into part of the show.

$19.99

Berserk or Die

This is an action game in which players attempt to survive by defeating a number of enemies which appear from the left and right sides of the screen.

$3.99

FIGHT KNIGHT

Grid-based dungeon crawling meets real-time fistfights in a cursed tower full of puzzles, bosses and people worth punching.

$19.99

Sclash

Sclash is a plug’n play 2D samurai fighting game full of tension where one hit is enough to kill.

$8.99

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