Games like Space Crusaders
If Space Crusaders is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sharded World, Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot and ARRIVAL: ZERO EARTH — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its modding support adds replayability, challenging and lighthearted. 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 Space Crusaders: Try to survive the demon onslaught in this fast-paced top-down shooter. Battle oncoming enemies as they try to destroy you, collect their souls to level up your character and weapons. Collect relics and unlock new characters and weapons to become more powerful!
Players who liked Space Crusaders also play
Steam players who put hours into Space Crusaders 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.
Sharded World
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Crusaders.
Top pick for Space Crusaders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Crusaders.
Sharded World is a reversed bullet hell, rogue-lite, ARPG game combining simple gameplay and great rpg progression. Each level has its own unique features and challenges. Upgradable characters, weapons and orbs. Challenges, daily quests, and leaderboards. Fight, get stronger and defeat the Lich!
Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and a challenging mood with Space Crusaders.
Second-strongest match for Space Crusaders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Crusaders.
Welcome to Slime 3K, an unhinged roguelite bullet-heaven set in the Despot’s Game universe! Build a deck of crazy weapons, grow stronger and devour hordes of pink puny humans as a murderous jelly blob on a warpath of death, violence and pretzels.
ARRIVAL: ZERO EARTH
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Space Crusaders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Crusaders.
Fight giant War of the Worlds -style aliens invading Finland during a Winter in the 90's. Build an army of local townspeople in this chaotic semi-autobattler roguelike. Navigate through different biomes to obliterate the aliens from cosmic dimensions.
REPLIKATOR
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Crusaders.
Ranked #4 for Space Crusaders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Crusaders.
In this twin stick roguelite shooter, you play as one of the galactic mercenaries, explore a mysterious scientific complex and uncover the secret of the REPLIKATOR project.
Survivors of the Dawn
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and a challenging mood with Space Crusaders.
Ranked #5 for Space Crusaders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Crusaders.
A roguelite horde-survival bullet heaven with QUINTILLIONS of bullets over QUINTILLIONS of hordes. Mix weapons with items, modify, control chaos at terminals and break through tightening waves.
Kitty's Last Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and a challenging mood with Space Crusaders.
Ranked #6 for Space Crusaders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Space Crusaders.
Cute Survivor where you play as Kitty the cat aboard her flying cat-saucer🛸 created by her distraught human.
Time Wasters
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Space Crusaders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Crusaders.
Time Wasters is a space shooter bullet heaven roguelite. Equip and upgrade weapons, destroy swarms of enemies, and collect Time & Space Cubes to bend the timeline to your advantage.
NIMRODS
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and a challenging mood with Space Crusaders.
Ranked #8 for Space Crusaders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Crusaders.
Assemble a limitless arsenal in this survive-em-up roguelite shooter. As a Gun Manufacturer's testing force, your mission is simple: test the latest gun tech and scavenge alien planets. Collect insane weapon parts to invent crazy guns that slay thousands. You may not survive, but your guns will!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Space Crusaders at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Space Crusaders on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Space Crusaders.
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 Space Crusaders on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Space Crusaders.
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 ~67% under Space Crusaders on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Space Crusaders.
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.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Space Crusaders on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Space Crusaders.
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 ~67% under Space Crusaders on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Space Crusaders.
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 Space Crusaders on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Space Crusaders.
"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!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Space Crusaders on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Space Crusaders.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Crusaders.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Crusaders.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Crusaders.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Space Crusaders.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Space Crusaders.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Crusaders.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Crusaders.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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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.
Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and a challenging mood with Space Crusaders.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Space Crusaders.
Welcome to Slime 3K, an unhinged roguelite bullet-heaven set in the Despot’s Game universe! Build a deck of crazy weapons, grow stronger and devour hordes of pink puny humans as a murderous jelly blob on a warpath of death, violence and pretzels.
REPLIKATOR
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Crusaders.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Space Crusaders.
In this twin stick roguelite shooter, you play as one of the galactic mercenaries, explore a mysterious scientific complex and uncover the secret of the REPLIKATOR project.
Kitty's Last Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and a challenging mood with Space Crusaders.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Casual with Space Crusaders.
Cute Survivor where you play as Kitty the cat aboard her flying cat-saucer🛸 created by her distraught human.
Time Wasters
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Space Crusaders.
Time Wasters is a space shooter bullet heaven roguelite. Equip and upgrade weapons, destroy swarms of enemies, and collect Time & Space Cubes to bend the timeline to your advantage.
NIMRODS
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and a challenging mood with Space Crusaders.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Space Crusaders.
Assemble a limitless arsenal in this survive-em-up roguelite shooter. As a Gun Manufacturer's testing force, your mission is simple: test the latest gun tech and scavenge alien planets. Collect insane weapon parts to invent crazy guns that slay thousands. You may not survive, but your guns will!
Frequently asked about Space Crusaders
- How much does Space Crusaders cost?
- Space Crusaders is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Space Crusaders?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Space Crusaders are Sharded World, Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot, ARRIVAL: ZERO EARTH.
- Who developed Space Crusaders?
- Space Crusaders was developed by AbsurdPoncho.
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 Space Crusaders.
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