Games like Crypterion
If Crypterion is your kind of game, the closest matches are Star Girls, The seven days i spent with you and A Sky Full of Stars 仰望夜空的星辰 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and retro. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Crypterion: Crypterion is an open-world visual novel in a distant future where anyone can rise to power—including you. As a new arrival in the Rimshot system, you are free to forge your own destiny, conquering space by mastery of trade, politics, celebrity status through galactic TV or... Other means.
Players who liked Crypterion also play
Steam players who put hours into Crypterion also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Star Girls
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Crypterion.
Top pick for Crypterion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crypterion.
Star girls is a dating sim with a bullet hell combat system and light RPG elements in it. The story is character driven with many different endings depending on your choices. You only have 60 days to make a Star girl fall in love with you or become cursed forever.
The seven days i spent with you
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Crypterion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crypterion.
With the enigmatic girl who imprisoned you――seven days in an unfamiliar room.
A Sky Full of Stars 仰望夜空的星辰
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crypterion.
Third-strongest match for Crypterion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Crypterion.
The starry sky spreads far and wide overhead... This story full of love, comedy, and excitement follows our protagonist and his stargazing friends as they grow together. "A Sky Full of Stars" is a coming-of-age astronomy tale by the same team who brought you "If My Heart Had Wings".
Bingus: My Beloved
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Crypterion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crypterion.
Bingus: My Beloved is a visual novel and dating sim where you choose to pursue Bingus or Big Floppa while you attend Zabloing Academy. Join your favorite high school club, make friends, and prepare to enter the Floppaverse! 💕
Just Deserts
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Crypterion.
Ranked #5 for Crypterion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crypterion.
Just Deserts is a sci-fi action dating sim where you play as a soldier who must protect a city from mysterious alien attack, while at the same time you will also be seeking to capture the heart of your dream girl(s)! Theme song by Vesuvia [Ecky], vocal track by iMochi
Cabernet
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crypterion.
Ranked #6 for Crypterion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crypterion.
Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist. Guide Liza, a young vampire in her new unlife among the unsuspecting townsfolk. Will you retain your humanity or descend further into the horror you have become?
If My Heart Had Wings
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Crypterion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Crypterion.
An animated visual novel of a lovely and bittersweet tale of youth, you play as Aoi Minase in this romantic-comedy as he meets various young girls in his hometown and works together with them to revive their school’s glider-flying “Soaring Club” in order to realize their shared dream of flight.
Purrfect Date - Visual Novel/Dating Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Crypterion.
Ranked #8 for Crypterion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crypterion.
As Cat Island’s newest arrival, it’s not long before you realise something’s seriously amiss, or should we say… amorous! A blend of mystery, intrigue and wickedly black humour, will you discover your Purrfect Date before it’s too late? Remember, curiosity killed the cat...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Crypterion at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Crypterion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crypterion.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Crypterion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Crypterion.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Crypterion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crypterion.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Crypterion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crypterion.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Crypterion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Crypterion.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Crypterion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crypterion.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~77% under Crypterion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crypterion.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under Crypterion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crypterion.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Crypterion.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Crypterion.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crypterion.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crypterion.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crypterion.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crypterion.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crypterion.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Frequently asked about Crypterion
- How much does Crypterion cost?
- Crypterion is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Crypterion?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crypterion are Star Girls, The seven days i spent with you, A Sky Full of Stars 仰望夜空的星辰.
- Who developed Crypterion?
- Crypterion was developed by Roencia and published by indie.io.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Crypterion.
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