Games like Crush the Industry
If Crush the Industry is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rogue Voltage, Dungeon Clawler and Dice & Fold — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its five distinct character playstyles, parodies gaming industry struggles and atmospheric. 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 Crush the Industry: Work your way to the top of a cutthroat game studio in this retro roguelike deckbuilder! Crush the Industry features strategic combat with a unique twist and deep replayability.
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Rogue Voltage
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crush the Industry.
Top pick for Crush the Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crush the Industry.
The engineering roguelike. Construct your combos by wiring circuits. Build crazy machines to zap the monsters and trigger satisfying chain reactions. Discover devastating synergies and create overpowered builds.
Dungeon Clawler
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Crush the Industry.
Second-strongest match for Crush the Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Crush the Industry.
Dungeon Clawler is a Roguelike Claw Machine Deckbuilder. Build your deck, grab weapons and items from the claw machine to battle enemies, discover powerful perks that create game-changing synergies and unleash crazy combos as you fight your way through the dungeon!
Dice & Fold
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Crush the Industry.
Third-strongest match for Crush the Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crush the Industry.
A turn-based dungeon crawler where your only way of attacking the enemy is by rolling dice. Roll dice to damage enemy cards to FOLD. Inspired by classic Solitaire, in a top-down table and enemies made out of cards, try to beat the dungeon with 35 unique classes. Build your deck, kill monsters.
Luck be a Landlord
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Crush the Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crush the Industry.
Luck be a Landlord is a roguelike deckbuilder about using a slot machine to earn rent money and defeat capitalism. This game does not contain any real-world currency gambling or microtransactions.
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crush the Industry.
Ranked #5 for Crush the Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crush the Industry.
Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.
For The Warp
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crush the Industry.
Ranked #6 for Crush the Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crush the Industry.
A roguelike deckbuilding game in space! Explore randomly generated systems, enemies and strange encounters. Build your deck, survive and reach For The Warp gate!
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crush the Industry.
Ranked #7 for Crush the Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crush the Industry.
Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and a unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.
Die in the Dungeon
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Crush the Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crush the Industry.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but dice! Deal with enemies by combining powerful dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and risk it all hoping for a good roll on unexpected encounters.
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Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Crush the Industry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crush the Industry.
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!
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Crush the Industry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Crush the Industry.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Vault of the Void
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crush the Industry.
Reviewers of Crush the Industry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crush the Industry.
Vault of the Void is a fast-paced roguelike deckbuilder where the power is in your hands. Continuously customise your deck, crafting powerful combos and ingenious strategies. Upgrade your cards with Void Stones, infusing them with new abilities to help defeat the minions of The Void!
MOTHER
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crush the Industry.
Reviewers of Crush the Industry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Crush the Industry.
MOTHER is a first-person psychological horror game about protecting your children while descending deeper & deeper into madness. Defend them at all costs. Be careful, because their death is permanent!
Stick It to the Stickman
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Crush the Industry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Crush the Industry.
Stick it to the Stickman is a physics-based brawler where you fight heaps of red stickmen to become the boss. Choose from hundreds of unique moves to construct the perfect combat machine and fight your way to the top of the corporate ladder.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Crush the Industry at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~87% under Crush the Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crush the Industry.
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 ~60% under Crush the Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crush the Industry.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Crush the Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crush the Industry.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~73% under Crush the Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Crush the Industry.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Crush the Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crush the Industry.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Crush the Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Crush the Industry.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Crush the Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crush the Industry.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Crush the Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crush the Industry.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crush the Industry.
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 with Crush the Industry.
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 with Crush the Industry.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crush the Industry.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crush the Industry.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crush the Industry.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Rogue Voltage
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crush the Industry.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crush the Industry.
The engineering roguelike. Construct your combos by wiring circuits. Build crazy machines to zap the monsters and trigger satisfying chain reactions. Discover devastating synergies and create overpowered builds.
Dungeon Clawler
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Crush the Industry.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Crush the Industry.
Dungeon Clawler is a Roguelike Claw Machine Deckbuilder. Build your deck, grab weapons and items from the claw machine to battle enemies, discover powerful perks that create game-changing synergies and unleash crazy combos as you fight your way through the dungeon!
Dice & Fold
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Crush the Industry.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crush the Industry.
A turn-based dungeon crawler where your only way of attacking the enemy is by rolling dice. Roll dice to damage enemy cards to FOLD. Inspired by classic Solitaire, in a top-down table and enemies made out of cards, try to beat the dungeon with 35 unique classes. Build your deck, kill monsters.
Luck be a Landlord
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crush the Industry.
Luck be a Landlord is a roguelike deckbuilder about using a slot machine to earn rent money and defeat capitalism. This game does not contain any real-world currency gambling or microtransactions.
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crush the Industry.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crush the Industry.
Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.
For The Warp
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crush the Industry.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crush the Industry.
A roguelike deckbuilding game in space! Explore randomly generated systems, enemies and strange encounters. Build your deck, survive and reach For The Warp gate!
Die in the Dungeon
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crush the Industry.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but dice! Deal with enemies by combining powerful dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and risk it all hoping for a good roll on unexpected encounters.
Frequently asked about Crush the Industry
- Is Crush the Industry verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Crush the Industry is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Crush the Industry cost?
- Crush the Industry is listed on Steam at 7.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Crush the Industry?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crush the Industry are Rogue Voltage, Dungeon Clawler, Dice & Fold.
- Who developed Crush the Industry?
- Crush the Industry was developed by Cognoggin Games.
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