Games like CRYPTIC
If CRYPTIC is your kind of game, the closest matches are STAMPED, Room 337 and Seeds of Pain — picked from the ranked list below. 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 CRYPTIC: Kidnapped by an insane man and dragged into a dark crypt, your only choice is to play along with his twisted games or suffer the consequences for non-compliance. A thrilling text-based interactive fiction game!
Players who liked CRYPTIC also play
Steam players who put hours into CRYPTIC 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.
STAMPED
WHY THIS
Top pick for CRYPTIC fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
NEXUS CORP, sub-basement 7-A. Stamp the forms. Ask nothing. Since 1952, forty-six clerks have vanished at this desk - you are the forty-seventh. Cross-check every claim on your terminal, rule APPROVED or REJECTED, and try not to wonder what the paperwork is really sealing.
Room 337
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for CRYPTIC fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Seeds of Pain
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for CRYPTIC fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A group of kids decide to leave their floating island to go and explore the collosal tree that occupies half of their world. They descent will soon become much more dangerous than they thought. Visual Novel with resource management elements in a dark fantasy world.
Nothing To Remember
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for CRYPTIC fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Nothing To Remember is an immersive murder mystery that runs in real-time, right on your desktop. Through their personal messages, you'll uncover two characters unknowingly intertwined as they hunt a killer long thought dead. When your next choice could mean life or death, will you answer the call?
Sterile Childhood: Case 17
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for CRYPTIC fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
The hospital once wrote you into a case file. Now you must recover the life it erased.
Haunting of the Evil Spirit - Horror Choose your own adventure Novel
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for CRYPTIC fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
Cursed Choices and ConsequencesHorror Visual Novel Set in a haunted house, with multiple puzzles, paths, and endings.And great atmospheric music.Choices are forgiving and let you go back without replaying big chunks of the game.Reads like a book.Approximately 3 hours of content.
忌品管理部
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for CRYPTIC fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
My mother passed away. It was dismissed as an unfortunate accident... But was it truly just an accident? I need to know... what happened that day. Will the son hunting for answers reach the absolute truth? The player's choices and actions will divide the final outcome.
Bloody Service
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for CRYPTIC fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
The conjoined twins were bullied and humiliated... Now justice will be served! BLOODY SERVICE is a dark, gory and violent coming-of-age slasher FMV Visual Novel with gruesome deaths and clever one-liners related to tennis. Game, set, machete!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below CRYPTIC at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under CRYPTIC on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under CRYPTIC on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under CRYPTIC on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under CRYPTIC on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under CRYPTIC on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under CRYPTIC on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under CRYPTIC on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 CRYPTIC.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Shoho Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Hiking Simulator 2017
WHY THIS
Another title from Shoho Games, the studio behind CRYPTIC. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
Experience nature like you have never seen it before as you take your hiking to the next level!
Parking Cop Simulator
WHY THIS
Another title from Shoho Games, the studio behind CRYPTIC. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
Take on the role of a Parking Enforcement Officer and show your knowledge of parking regulations and laws as you hand out fines to parking violators!
Creatio Ex Nihilo: Aition
WHY THIS
Another title from Shoho Games, the studio behind CRYPTIC. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
Battle against gods and experience the creation myth of a grand fantasy universe!
Reading Simulator
WHY THIS
Another title from Shoho Games, the studio behind CRYPTIC. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
Read all the literary classics in this simulated library experience!
Hiking Simulator 2018
WHY THIS
Another title from Shoho Games, the studio behind CRYPTIC. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
Put on your hiking boots and get ready to explore a gigantic winter landscape!
Hamster Logic 3D
WHY THIS
Another title from Shoho Games, the studio behind CRYPTIC. Shares Indie with CRYPTIC.
Think hard and use your hamster logic to solve the geometric puzzles in this fun and fluffy game!
Frequently asked about CRYPTIC
- How much does CRYPTIC cost?
- CRYPTIC is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to CRYPTIC?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CRYPTIC are STAMPED, Room 337, Seeds of Pain.
- Who developed CRYPTIC?
- CRYPTIC was developed by Shoho Games.
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