Games like Crying Pony
If Crying Pony is your kind of game, the closest matches are Evil Cartridge, Night Guard - The Last Shift and Silver Pines — 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 Crying Pony: Crying Pony is a 2D side-scrolling horror game where the protagonist, Michael, is hunted by the lurking evil in his nightmares. As the nightmare's corruption seeps into reality and even pulls Michael's daughter into its grasp, will he be able to lead them both to escape from the nightmare?
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Steam players who put hours into Crying Pony 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.
Evil Cartridge
WHY THIS
Top pick for Crying Pony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crying Pony.
After finding a cursed cartridge, explore a distorted reality in this retro survival horror. Manage scarce resources, solve puzzles, and push forward through a world that grows increasingly unreal. Find a way to escape before it’s too late.
Night Guard - The Last Shift
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Crying Pony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crying Pony.
Check license plates, handle incidents, and keep working your shift while an unauthorized visitor keeps insisting on getting into the lot. What starts as a dull routine turns into an increasingly terrifying night
Silver Pines
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Crying Pony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crying Pony.
Silver Pines is a survival horror metroidvania set in small town America. Fight nightmarish terrors and solve puzzles, while carefully managing your scarce resources as you uncover the mysteries that could hold the key to redemption.
Dead Take
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Crying Pony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crying Pony.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
Mythargia
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Crying Pony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crying Pony.
You are a journalist in search of your breakthrough story. A promising lead takes you to the abandoned island of Mythargia where you have to discover its buried history connecting two different dimensions.
Holstin
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Crying Pony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Crying Pony.
A psychological survival horror game set in an eerie, isolated 90’s Polish town consumed by an ominous presence. You’ve come looking for answers, but everyone seems possessed by something foul. Explore the festering town, interrogate locals and fight ungodly manifestations to get to the truth.
TRAUMA Broken Paradise
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Crying Pony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Crying Pony.
A childhood stolen by brutality, a mind shattered by loss... In the ruins of a forgotten past, Sophia Markwell searches for the truth—will the ghosts of her parents’ murder lead her to redemption, or deeper into madness? And who’s Catherine?
MADiSON VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Crying Pony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crying Pony.
MADiSON VR now plunges you even deeper into its immersive and terrifying world. With the utilization of an instant camera in your virtual hands, bridge the gap between our world and the unknown. Snap photos, develop them by yourself to solve puzzles, explore the shadows and above all, survive.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Crying Pony at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Crying Pony on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crying Pony.
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 ~44% under Crying Pony on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crying Pony.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Crying Pony on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crying Pony.
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 ~44% under Crying Pony on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crying Pony.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Crying Pony on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crying Pony.
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 ~67% under Crying Pony on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crying Pony.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Crying Pony on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crying Pony.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Crying Pony on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crying Pony.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crying Pony.
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 and Adventure with Crying Pony.
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 and Adventure with Crying Pony.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crying Pony.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crying Pony.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crying Pony.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crying Pony.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crying Pony.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Other recommendable Steam games by CreSpirit, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Rabi-Ribi
WHY THIS
Another title from CreSpirit, the studio behind Crying Pony. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crying Pony.
Dodge bullets, missiles and lasers in battle as you wrap your head around that bunny girl costume! Combo away with your mighty Piko Hammer or spam various spells from afar with your fiery fairy friend. Explore and explode through Rabi-Rabi Island as you collect power-ups and uncover secrets...
TEVI
WHY THIS
Another title from CreSpirit, the studio behind Crying Pony. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crying Pony.
Embark on an epic action-adventure as you slash, dash, and combo your way through a vast, vibrant world. Explore and uncover hidden secrets. Customize your build to triumph in spectacular boss battles. Experience a tale of mystery, magic, and mayhem in TEVI, a bullet hell metroidvania!
Last Command
WHY THIS
Another title from CreSpirit, the studio behind Crying Pony. Shares Indie with Crying Pony.
Last Command is a fast-paced Snake x Bullet Hell action game. Maneuver through enemies’ barrage of attacks, collect Data Points to deal damage! Mix and match skill chips as you progress, overcome intense Boss battles, and uncover the secrets of their program world...
A Light in the Dark
WHY THIS
Another title from CreSpirit, the studio behind Crying Pony. Shares Indie with Crying Pony.
──We cannot choose in this unfair world.The rich boy stuck in his never changing daily life...The fierce girl struggling for survival...Two people in totally opposite positions in life.In the face of confusion and the choices before them, what will they find...?
Last Command: Prologue
WHY THIS
Another title from CreSpirit, the studio behind Crying Pony. Shares Indie with Crying Pony.
Last Command is a fast-paced Snake x Bullet Hell action game. Maneuver through enemies’ barrage of attacks, collect Data Points to deal damage! Mix and match skill chips as you progress, overcome intense Boss battles, and uncover the secrets of their program world...
Frequently asked about Crying Pony
- How much does Crying Pony cost?
- Crying Pony is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Crying Pony?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crying Pony are Evil Cartridge, Night Guard - The Last Shift, Silver Pines.
- Who developed Crying Pony?
- Crying Pony was developed by CreSpirit.
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