Games like Azur Lane Crosswave
If Azur Lane Crosswave is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed, Bullet Girls Phantasia and Neptunia x SENRAN KAGURA: Ninja Wars — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its character relationships drive progression, atmospheric and immersive. 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 →Azur Lane Crosswave is a 2020 action-adventure RPG from IDEA FACTORY, COMPILE HEART, and FELISTELLA that merges 3D naval combat with visual novel storytelling. Players describe it as atmospheric and immersive, with cel-shaded visuals that match the anime tone. The gameplay combines character-bonding and visual-novel dialogue with fleet-swapping and gear-upgrading mechanics, while a secretary system enables daily interactions with shipgirls. Players highlight that swapping shipgirls mid-combat offers tactical variety and that voice acting brings the characters to life, creating a lighthearted yet nostalgic experience. Priced at $39.99, it runs on Steam Deck and holds a 75% positive rating from 1147 Steam reviews.
About Azur Lane Crosswave: In the middle of each nation's normal training routine, a Joint Military Exercise was enacted. A select few from each nation were chosen to participate in this rigorous event. But, how did this event come to be? Are there other ulterior motives at play?
Players who liked Azur Lane Crosswave also play
Steam players who put hours into Azur Lane Crosswave 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.
Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed
WHY THIS
Top pick for Azur Lane Crosswave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Choose your tag team and rip through massive hordes of enemies with exciting aerial and ground-based combos. Look out, though - take too many hits and your clothes and defense will end up shredded!
Bullet Girls Phantasia
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Second-strongest match for Azur Lane Crosswave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Azur Lane Crosswave.
"Bullet Girls Phantasia" is the latest installment of the all-female third person shooter "Bullet Girls" series. This game is a thrilling action-packed game where cute girls shoot assault rifles and bazookas in a world filled with slimes, orcs, and dragons.
Neptunia x SENRAN KAGURA: Ninja Wars
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Third-strongest match for Azur Lane Crosswave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Neptunia and SENRAN KAGURA join forces in this action-packed RPG!
World of Warships
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Ranked #4 for Azur Lane Crosswave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Immerse yourself in thrilling naval battles and assemble an armada of over 800 ships from the first half of the 20th century — from stealthy destroyers to gigantic battleships. Change the look of your ship, choose upgrades to suit your play style, and go into battle with other players!
Moero Chronicle
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Ranked #5 for Azur Lane Crosswave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Io is a man who has no luck with the ladies, and now he's tasked with recruiting Monster Girls to save the world in this moe-filled dungeon RPG! Recruit 50 Monster Girls! Combine their Moe Traits! Build relationships with them and find out just how cute a monster can be!
Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart (Neptunia)
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Azur Lane Crosswave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Azur Lane Crosswave.
In this chibi-style* strategy role-playing game you'll amass an army of game-referencing allies, fight on trap-laden maps, and beef up Lily Rank for crazy damage. But look out for status ailments or you might be (literal) tofu! You ain't seen the Neptunia characters like this before!
Mysteria ~Occult Shadows~
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Ranked #7 for Azur Lane Crosswave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Explore the land of Sulnas as the "Shadow of Death", a cat girl who's dauntless and fierce. The land is poisoned by secret power and desperately needs salvation. Can you save it from its sure demise or will you doom its fate like everyone else would?
Sakura Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares visual novel dialogue and an atmospheric mood with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Ranked #8 for Azur Lane Crosswave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Azur Lane Crosswave.
You are Yomi, an ancient fox spirit. Your dungeon has been stolen from you while you have been sealed away in a deep sleep. Capture monster girls, collect loot, explore the dungeon's depths and reclaim what is yours in this first-person RPG dungeon crawler.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Azur Lane Crosswave at current Steam store prices.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Azur Lane Crosswave on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Azur Lane Crosswave.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Azur Lane Crosswave on Steam right now. Shares Action with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Azur Lane Crosswave on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Azur Lane Crosswave.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Azur Lane Crosswave on Steam right now. Shares Action with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Azur Lane Crosswave on Steam right now. Shares Action with Azur Lane Crosswave.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Azur Lane Crosswave on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Azur Lane Crosswave on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Azur Lane Crosswave.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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.
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 Action and Adventure with Azur Lane Crosswave.
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.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Action and Adventure with Azur Lane Crosswave.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from IDEA FACTORY
Other recommendable Steam games by IDEA FACTORY, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online
WHY THIS
Another title from IDEA FACTORY, the studio behind Azur Lane Crosswave. Shares RPG with Azur Lane Crosswave.
In this hack 'n' slash adventure co-developed with Tamsoft and Compile Heart, the 4 Goddesses enter an online fantasy game inspired by... themselves! Choose from 12 characters with unique playstyles and skills to fight in realtime brawls, customize with accessories, and play online with others!
Amnesia™: Memories
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Another title from IDEA FACTORY, the studio behind Azur Lane Crosswave. Shares Adventure with Azur Lane Crosswave.
You awaken to find your memories gone. To learn the truth behind your amnesia, you’ll choose from five romantic paths, each its own world. With 20+ endings, can you write the lasting love story you deserve, or will your love and life come to an end?
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth3 V Generation
WHY THIS
Another title from IDEA FACTORY, the studio behind Azur Lane Crosswave. Shares RPG with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Lost in an alternate dimension, Neptune must collect enough shares to get back home. Sounds easy – except the Seven Sages want to rid Gamindustri of CPUs, including Neptune! Help defeat them and return her to her own world in this JRPG – or be stuck in the '80s forever!
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth2: Sisters Generation
WHY THIS
Another title from IDEA FACTORY, the studio behind Azur Lane Crosswave. Shares RPG with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Gamindustri has been taken over by a new threat, and the CPUs are nowhere to be found! It’s now up to their younger sisters to step into the spotlight and save the day in this hilarious, deeply customizable JRPG!
Megadimension Neptunia VII
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Another title from IDEA FACTORY, the studio behind Azur Lane Crosswave. Shares RPG with Azur Lane Crosswave.
New challengers are taking control of Gamindustri, and Neptune's nowhere in sight. Now she’s gotta help a mysterious stranger fight a colossal new evil, reclaim her Goddess title, and find some time for pudding! Go next gen with Giant Battles and multi-worlds in this JRPG!
DATE A LIVE: Rio Reincarnation
WHY THIS
Another title from IDEA FACTORY, the studio behind Azur Lane Crosswave.
Show the Spirits the power of love and save the world in this romantic visual novel!
Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed
WHY THIS
Another title from IDEA FACTORY, the studio behind Azur Lane Crosswave. Shares Action and RPG with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Choose your tag team and rip through massive hordes of enemies with exciting aerial and ground-based combos. Look out, though - take too many hits and your clothes and defense will end up shredded!
Fairy Fencer F Advent Dark Force
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Another title from IDEA FACTORY, the studio behind Azur Lane Crosswave. Shares Adventure and RPG with Azur Lane Crosswave.
Long ago, a war raged between two powerful deities. Each was sealed away, their weapons scattered throughout the world. Our hero in this RPG, Fang, happens upon one such weapon and now he alone must choose which deity will awaken again!
Frequently asked about Azur Lane Crosswave
- Does Azur Lane Crosswave run on Steam Deck?
- Azur Lane Crosswave is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Azur Lane Crosswave cost?
- Azur Lane Crosswave is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Azur Lane Crosswave?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Azur Lane Crosswave are Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed, Bullet Girls Phantasia, Neptunia x SENRAN KAGURA: Ninja Wars.
- Who developed Azur Lane Crosswave?
- Azur Lane Crosswave was developed by IDEA FACTORY, COMPILE HEART, FELISTELLA and published by Idea Factory International.
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 Azur Lane Crosswave.
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