THE BAZAAR GET THE GAME

Field guide to The Bazaar, the Tempo game. Not the restaurant, the magazine, or Cafe Bazaar.

THE FIELD GUIDE

The Bazaar

A field guide to the ever-changing marketplace

The Bazaar is an asynchronous PvP hero-builder by Tempo (AVY Entertainment, Inc.). You buy items from merchants, place them on a board, and fight recorded ghosts of other players. It is not the José Andrés restaurant, not Harper's BAZAAR, and not the Cafe Bazaar app store.

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Painted marketplace street used as the field-guide hero

Vanessa

  • Free starter after the mobile plan
  • Hotfix 19.3 win rate 56.8%
  • 10-win rate 24.9%

Mak

  • Potions, reagents, poison
  • Hotfix 19.3 win rate 57.9%
  • Skill vendor: Zosima

Pygmalien

  • Economy and max health
  • Hotfix 19.3 10-win rate 28.6%
  • Also searched as Pyg
Official Steam screenshot of a The Bazaar board
Official Steam screenshot of a The Bazaar board
Official Steam screenshot of The Bazaar combat
Official Steam screenshot of The Bazaar combat

Where it stands

I read the public store page, the official patch notes, and the mobile-beta page on 9 Nov 2026 and kept three different mobile sentences instead of collapsing them into one. Steam still listed Windows and macOS at $19.99 with no discount. Patch 20.1 is dated 6 Nov 2026. The FAQ still said mobile was in development, while the beta page offered an Android APK and patch 20.0 named the week of 9 Nov as the upload goal.

Steam's API dates release to 13 Aug 2025, while the browser-rendered store in this review displayed 14 Aug 2025; the one-day difference is retained on the price page.

Status checked 9 Nov 2026
ItemReadingSources
Patch20.1 on 6 Nov 2026Tempo notes · 1 publisher
Steam price (US)$19.99, no discountSteam store/API · 1 platform
Players, same windowSteam API 3,603; SteamCharts 3,903 (separate snapshots)2 readings; SteamCharts uses Steam data
ReviewsEnglish 78% overall; recent 30 days 63%1 source, two windows
iOS storeNo Tempo app in the US searchUS Apple search · 1 source
Android storeNo Tempo app; APK beta existsUS Google Play search; official APK · separate claims

Start here

Check mobile status for the official APK and the store-launch target, price for current Steam cost versus the future purchase model, or merchants for character-specific shopping rules. Zosima, Barkun, Valpak and Silvia have individual guides.

Patch 20.1 in three lines

The 6 Nov notes are a hotfix on top of 20.0 Tiny World Expedition. Android players were told to uninstall and reinstall. Two items I keep an eye on from that list are 3D Printer's cooldown moving from 4 seconds to 5, and Barnacle Bigwig moving from Diamond to Silver. The full list is on the patch page.

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Questions

Is The Bazaar free?

On 9 Nov 2026 US Steam charges $19.99. Tempo announced a future free download with Vanessa, then $29.99 through Steam for the full game. Existing paid owners pay nothing more.

Is The Bazaar on mobile?

As of 9 Nov 2026 the FAQ said not yet, the beta page offered an Android APK, and patch 20.0 said iOS review had passed with a goal of the week of 9 Nov. Neither store search showed a Tempo app.

Is The Bazaar dead?

SteamCharts still showed thousands of players in early November 2026, down from a March peak of 17,125. I would not call that dead. The mobile launch is the open variable.

What kind of game is it?

An asynchronous PvP roguelike. You fight ghosts of other players' boards, not a live opponent, and a run is built around reaching 10 wins.

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