The Bazaar is a hero-building strategy game set in a changing galactic marketplace, where each run combines board-building with encounters against fantastical creatures and rival players. Its setting also extends beyond combat: the game describes voiced characters, including merchants and robot revolutionaries, and a world of magic, machines and ancient secrets.
Players choose from a roster of heroes with distinct play styles, then collect and arrange items such as weapons, tools, skills and potions on a board. The strategic challenge is to find combinations that suit a plan, whether that means concentrating on one powerful item or assembling a more elaborate sequence of effects. With hundreds of items and combinations described, runs are framed as puzzles that reward adaptation rather than a single fixed build.
The Bazaar’s encounters are against real players, but its play format is not based on real-time timers: players can plan on their own time. Its Steam categories also list both single-player and multiplayer, alongside online PvP and play without timed input.
