| The Bazaar | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Release Date | Gameplay & Story | Pre-Order & DLC | Review |
| Release Date | |
|---|---|
| August 14, 2025 (Full Release) March 2025 (PC Open Beta) October 2024 (PC Closed Beta) More Details |
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| Genre | |
| Action, Strategy, Card, Roguelike | |
| Platforms | Price (MSRP) |
 PC (Tempo Launcher) |
Free-to-Play $39.99 (Full Release) |
| Developer | Publisher |
| Tempo | Tempo |
| Number of Players | Age Rating |
| 1 (Asynchronous Competitive Multiplayer) | RP |
| Time to Finish | Cross Platform Play |
| 30-50 minutes per game | Yes |
| Official Website | Official Website of The Bazaar |
The Bazaar Latest News
⚫︎ 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 developer tempo Storm has announced that Season 5 will now launch on August 13. The current season is being extended by one week to allow for final adjustments and improvements.
⚫︎ The Bazaar is kicking off its fourth season, Seagate Summer, on July 2, 2025.
⚫︎ The Bazaar's Season 3, Secrets of the Greenheart, premiers on June 4. A brief maintenance period of around three hours began at 9 AM PDT to support the launch.
The Bazaar Overview
The Bazaar is an upcoming free-to-play asynchronous strategy Hero Builder
game developed by Tempo and created by former professional Hearthstone player Andrey Reynad
Yunyuk.
Currently in Closed Beta as of October 30, 2024, the game is slated for full release on PC and Mac via its dedicated client launcher sometime in 2025. While support for iOS and Android is confirmed, release dates for these platforms have yet to be announced.
Although the full game will be free-to-play on release, and is currently in its free-to-play Open Beta period, its Closed Beta was only accessible to players who purchased any tier of the Founder's Pack.
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 playthrough 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.
| Tempo Launcher |
Steam |
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| Price | $39.99 | ||||||
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The Bazaar Gameplay
The Bazaar is an online, multiplayer, asynchronous “Hero Builder” where the goal is to craft a board full of synergistic Items. These items serve various purposes, from dealing damage to opponents, healing your health bar, or even disabling enemy items.
Each playthrough 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 the outcome, each playthrough rewards players 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 around 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.
Unrevealed Heroes
The Bazaar’s roster of heroes goes far beyond the trio introduced in the Closed Beta—Vanessa, Pygmalien, and Dooley. While these three offer a glimpse into the diversity of playstyles available, the rest of the roster remains a mystery. So far, only a few teasers and hints have surfaced, fueling fan theories about potential character builds and abilities. We’ll update this article with new information as soon as it comes out, so stay tuned!
The Bazaar Announcement Trailer
The Bazaar | Official Trailer
The official reveal trailer for The Bazaar is a vibrant, animated cinematic journey through the bustling streets of the titular Bazaar. It showcases each of the heroes available in the game’s closed beta, including fan-favorite Dooley, the massive Pygmalien, and the fierce Vanessa.
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