| The Bazaar | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Release Date | Gameplay & Story | Pre-Order & DLC | Review |
| Release Date | |
|---|---|
| August 13, 2025 Steam TBD iOS, Andoid March 2025 PC Open Beta October 2024 PC Closed Beta More Details |
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| Genre | |
| Action, Strategy, Card, Roguelike | |
| Platforms | Price (MSRP) |
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$19.99 |
| Developer | Publisher |
| Tempo Games | Tempo Games |
| Number of Players | Age Rating |
| 1 | RP |
| Time to Finish | Cross Platform Play |
| 30-50 minutes per game | Yes |
| Official Website | Official Website of The Bazaar |
The Bazaar Latest News
⚫︎ The Bazaar has revealed their latest expansion. In the Karnok DLC, players will have access to a new playable character, more than a hundred new items, and a plethora of new skills and encounters.
⚫︎ Tempo revealed new pricing and update structure for The Bazaar according to an official post in their Reddit Community page and Discord server. The price for the game will be lowered from $39.99 to $19.99, and the devs are working with Steam to compensate players who already paid.
⚫︎ The Bazaar has announced its updated launch pricing. The game will debut on Steam for $39.99 with Vanessa, Pyg, and Dooley included.
⚫︎ The Bazaar has introduced its latest character, Stelle, as the game enters its next era. Players are invited to “take to the skies” and enjoy what the developers call a “Stelle-ar” experience.
The Bazaar Overview
The Bazaar is an asynchronous strategy Hero Builder
game developed and published by Tempo and created by former professional Hearthstone player Andrey Reynad
Yunyuk. The game has received a full release on Steam as well as its dedicated client launcher. While a version for iOS and Android has been confirmed, release dates for these platforms have yet to be announced.
In The Bazaar, players take the role of ambitious up-and-comers trying to make it big in the titular intergalactic marketplace by buying items, learning skills, making friends with merchants, and fighting other players in asynchronous auto-battles.
Every playthrough of The Bazaar is called a run, and each run is divided into Days and Hours, with each Hour presenting unique Encounters to enhance your strategy. Players can encounter Merchants offering powerful Items, random events with unexpected outcomes, AI-controlled creatures from the Bazaar, or asynchronous battles against other players’ builds.
Each run weaves the story of your chosen character’s journey to power, as they accumulate gear, properties, influence, and prestige with every victory. Whether you reach the pinnacle depends on how skillfully you build your arsenal and how far you’re willing to go to claim your place at the top.
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| Tempo Launcher |
Steam |
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| $19.99 | |||||||
 App Store |
 Google Play |
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| Coming Soon | |||||||
The Bazaar Gameplay
The Bazaar is an online, multiplayer, asynchronous “Hero Builder” where the goal is to craft a board full of synergistic items, which serve various purposes, from dealing damage to opponents, healing your health bar, or even disabling enemy items.
Each run unfolds across several days, each split into hours. Each hour presents players with three events to choose from, such as merchants selling items, monsters to battle, events to tackle, or—at the end of each day—other players’ builds to face off against.
Regardless of a run's outcome, players are rewarded based on their performance, with prizes scaling by the number of wins against other player builds, capped at a maximum of 10 victories.
What sets The Bazaar apart from other strategy games, auto-battlers, and hero-builders like Hearthstone, Legends of Runeterra, or DOTA Underlords is its asynchronous combat system. Each player’s build is recorded at certain points and later used by the game’s AI to face other players, allowing players to take as much time as they need to plan and strategize.
The Bazaar Characters
Vanessa
Vanessa hails from the island nation of Pelagos, where she and her loyal crew have been resisting a brutal tyrant who recently seized control of their homeland. She’s come to The Bazaar to rally resources and gather allies, and she’s not afraid to use intimidation or cunning to get what she needs. In The Bazaar, Vanessa embodies pure aggression and dominance, and her playstyle mirrors this intense approach.
Pygmalien
Not much is known about Pygmalien’s backstory, but his gameplay style has been a focal point in recent balance patches due to his impressive stat-ramping potential. Unlike other contenders, Pygmalien’s strategy in The Bazaar revolves around accumulating wealth and bolstering his strength over time, rather than relying solely on weapon damage.
Dooley
Though Dooley takes the spotlight as the protagonist of The Bazaar’s main trailers, their backstory remains largely mysterious. What we do know is that Dooley’s playstyle is shaped by their robotic nature, allowing them to integrate with other robots around The Bazaar and evolve through upgrades centered on their core.
Mak
Mak is a master alchemist whose playstyle focuses on his potions, tinctures, tools, and infusions. Built with limited, but powerful, buffs in mind, Mak uses his knowledge of substances that burn, freeze, slow, and poison to his advantage...if he doesn't run out of ingredients first.
Stelle
Stelle is a skilled mechanic and pilot who sees the skies as her home. Currently, she runs her own workshop in the Tower District of the Bazaar, providing affordable repairs to those with lesser means. She specializes in using vehicle items and capitalizing on the Flying mechanic.
Jules
The center of a true rags-to-riches story, Jules started out on an unnamed "gross, dead planet," where gathering food was a deadly affair. Now, Jules is a successful restaurateur and celebrity chef in the Bazaar. Aptly, Jules' builds revolved around using food to buff herself and debuff her opponents.
Karnok
Having grown up surrounded by death and danger, Karnok is a hyper-aggressive and skilled combatant. Deadly as he is, Karnok can transform into a savage, bloodthirsty beast at will. His builds revolve around straight-up aggression, stacking up Rage to unleash immense amounts of damage.
The Bazaar Announcement Trailer
The Bazaar: Introducing Karnok
The Bazaar: Introducing Jules
The Bazaar: Introducing Stelle
The Bazaar: Introducing Mak
The Bazaar | Official Trailer
The Bazaar PC System Requirements
| Specifications | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 10 (64-bit) | |
| Processor | Intel Core i3-3225 / AMD A8-7650K | |
| Memory | 3GB RAM | |
| Graphics | Nvidia GeForce GT 640 / AMD Radeon HD 5770 | |
| Storage | 5 GB Available Space | |
| DirectX | Version 11 | Version 12 |
The Bazaar Trivia
⚫︎ The game's creator, Andrey 'Reynad' Yanyuk, is a former professional Hearthstone player. He was featured in Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 list back in 2017.
⚫︎ The Bazaar was originally meant to be more like a traditional deckbuilder rather than the item-focused auto-battler it is today.
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