Games like Crossword City Chronicles
If Crossword City Chronicles is your kind of game, the closest matches are Typing Ritual, Guess Pictures - Animals and TypeSpell Journey — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its addictive scrabble like gameplay, challenging and contemplative. 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 Crossword City Chronicles: Play as a 1950s reporter investigating crimes by using your word building skills to interview, interrogate, convince, deceive & debate your way to a solution! Draw letters tiles onto a rack, then place them on the board to make a word that connects with those already placed to advance the plot.

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Steam players who put hours into Crossword City Chronicles 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.
Typing Ritual
WHY THIS
Top pick for Crossword City Chronicles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Crossword City Chronicles.
Typing Ritual is a first-person psychological horror game where players perform a summoning ritual by typing ancient texts. As the ritual progresses, the environment changes, and tension builds. Mistakes have consequences, and time is limited.
Guess Pictures - Animals
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Crossword City Chronicles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Crossword City Chronicles.
This quiz game is a great choice when you want to learn something, when you feel boring, or when you want to kill some free time. Can you find the words for every animal picture? Train your brain and learn new words by solving guessing the pics.
TypeSpell Journey
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Crossword City Chronicles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Crossword City Chronicles.
A word learning tool and word game suitable for users of all ages, you can learn words, spelling or typing. It can be a game or an educational tool, depending on how you use it.
MAELSTROM LEGACY: The Tesla Mystery
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Crossword City Chronicles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Crossword City Chronicles.
The Tesla Mystery is a puzzle-driven adventure game. Join the journey of investigation in a Paris infused with steampunk and Art Nouveau styles. Nikola Tesla, mastermind behind the Science Conference, has vanished under mysterious circumstances. Now, and uncover the truth hidden in the city...
Tell Me Everything
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Crossword City Chronicles.
Ranked #5 for Crossword City Chronicles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Crossword City Chronicles.
A mysterious murder has shocked the inner city, and as the lead detective, it is your job to catch the real killer. Armed with words and wits, you uncover the secrets and capture the murderer, and make sure justice will be served.
7 Days to End with You
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Crossword City Chronicles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Crossword City Chronicles.
To know a language, know the world, and finally know you.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Crossword City Chronicles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Crossword City Chronicles.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Crossword City Chronicles at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Crossword City Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crossword City Chronicles.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Crossword City Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crossword City Chronicles.
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 ~70% under Crossword City Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crossword City Chronicles.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Crossword City Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Crossword City Chronicles.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Crossword City Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Crossword City Chronicles.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Crossword City Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Crossword City Chronicles.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Crossword City Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Crossword City Chronicles.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Crossword City Chronicles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crossword City Chronicles.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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 Crossword City Chronicles.
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.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crossword City Chronicles.
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 Crossword City Chronicles.
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 Casual with Crossword City Chronicles.
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 with Crossword City Chronicles.
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 Crossword City Chronicles.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Crossword City Chronicles
- How much does Crossword City Chronicles cost?
- Crossword City Chronicles is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Crossword City Chronicles?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crossword City Chronicles are Typing Ritual, Guess Pictures - Animals, TypeSpell Journey.
- Who developed Crossword City Chronicles?
- Crossword City Chronicles was developed by Trailblazer Games.
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