10 games similar to Bastion, a Indie, Adventure, Role-playing (RPG) game, drawn from IGDB's similarity data. Each pick below notes the genres it shares with Bastion.
01Shares IndieRole-playing (RPG)Both games pair fast-paced action combat with RPG progression systems in single-player adventures. Ziggurat shares Bastion's focus on weapon variety and upgrades, offering dozens of spells and perks to customize your loadout across runs. Where Bastion uses a reactive narrator to guide you through a set world, Ziggurat's procedural dungeons create fresh challenges each playthrough, keeping the sense of discovery alive.
02Shares AdventureRole-playing (RPG)Both games combine isometric action-adventure combat with RPG progression in fantasy settings marked by conflict and mystery. Aarklash: Legacy shares Bastion's use of bow and arrow weapons alongside a leveling system that rewards exploration and combat. Where Bastion features a reactive narrator guiding a silent protagonist, Aarklash emphasizes bonds between squad members as they uncover dark secrets across a war-torn world.
03Shares AdventureRole-playing (RPG)Both games center action-adventure combat around a counter system that rewards defensive timing, and both feature bow and arrow as core weapons alongside melee combat. Shadow of Mordor shares Bastion's focus on a lone protagonist driven by personal loss and revenge in a dark fantasy setting. Where Bastion uses a reactive narrator, Mordor builds narrative depth through the Nemesis system, giving enemies individual histories that shape encounters.
Games like Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor →
04Shares IndieRole-playing (RPG)Both Bastion and Endless Legend explore post-apocalyptic fantasy worlds where survival and rebuilding are central. Bastion uses action-combat and a reactive narrator to drive its story of restoration, while Endless Legend frames similar themes through turn-based strategy and civilization-building. Each game emphasizes discovery and choice as you uncover your world's mysterious past and decide its future.
05Shares AdventureIndieRole-playing (RPG)Both Tunic and Bastion are isometric action adventures with combat-driven exploration and a mysterious world to uncover. Like Bastion, Tunic features a silent protagonist discovering secrets through exploration and combat, with achievements and New Game+ modes that reward replaying. Each game emphasizes atmospheric storytelling through environmental discovery rather than exposition, creating that same sense of piecing together a fractured world.
06Shares AdventureIndieRole-playing (RPG)Both games pair isometric action-adventure combat with a strong narrative voice. Bastion's reactive narrator guides the Kid through a fractured world, while Children of Morta frames its hack-and-slash battles around a family's struggle against encroaching corruption. Each game emphasizes character and story alongside combat, using their fantasy settings to explore themes of sacrifice and survival rather than treating narrative as secondary to gameplay.
07Shares AdventureBoth games cast you as a young protagonist rebuilding a dying world after catastrophe, with action-fantasy combat and a melancholic emotional core. Ori shares Bastion's focus on traversing unstable terrain (floating platforms versus crumbling forest) and collecting essential items to restore balance. Each game pairs challenging combat encounters with a deeply personal story about sacrifice and hope, supported by acclaimed original soundtracks that anchor their atmospheric worlds.
Games like Ori and the Blind Forest →
08Shares AdventureRole-playing (RPG)Both games cast you as a survivor rebuilding humanity after catastrophe, with weapon upgrades and crafting central to progression. Remnant shares Bastion's post-apocalyptic setting and action-fantasy combat, though it trades isometric perspective for third-person shooting. New Game+ mode appears in both, letting you replay with knowledge of the story's outcome and harder challenges ahead.
09Shares AdventureIndieRole-playing (RPG)Both games are top-down action RPGs built around exploring fractured worlds and upgrading weapons to survive combat encounters. Like Bastion's reactive narrator and floating terrain, Hyper Light Drifter uses environmental storytelling and an invented language to convey its post-apocalyptic setting. Each game rewards methodical exploration through checkpoints and collectibles, creating similar pacing and discovery rhythms.
10Shares AdventureIndieBoth games blend action-adventure combat with fantasy settings and reward player skill through careful observation of enemy patterns. Bastion's reactive narrator and story choices contrast with Dead Cells' cyclical narrative, but both explore how catastrophe reshapes worlds. Dead Cells strips progression between runs while Bastion offers permanent upgrades, yet each respects player investment through meaningful progression systems tied to exploration and combat mastery.
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10 games similar to Bastion: Ziggurat, Aarklash: Legacy, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Endless Legend, Tunic, Children of Morta, Ori and the Blind Forest, Remnant: From the Ashes.
Most of these games share Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Role-playing (RPG) and Indie with Bastion, based on IGDB's similarity data. Each pick has a short note explaining what it has in common with Bastion.