Games like Canary in a Crater
If Canary in a Crater is your kind of game, the closest matches are Miner Crysis, Orebits and Fjellward — 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 Canary in a Crater: Canary in a Crater is an asteroid-delving 2D platformer about digging deep, uncovering valuables, and fighting off hungry alien snails. Spend your hard-earned credits on a wide variety of unlockable gadgets and upgrades to get you deeper and deeper!
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Miner Crysis
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Top pick for Canary in a Crater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Canary in a Crater.
Miner Crysis is a 2D sci-fi mining adventure where you pilot a drill-ship to explore a collapsing moon held together by a mysterious crystal machine. Mine resources, battle alien threats, find secret rooms, defeat bosses, and buy powerful upgrades to grow stronger and progress.
Orebits
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Second-strongest match for Canary in a Crater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Canary in a Crater.
Bounce your pickaxe and smash through asteroids in this futuristic mining incremental! Explore a roguelite tech tree, discover gravitational anomalies, and deliver resources back to Earth. Upgrade and explore space to discover what secrets it holds!
Fjellward
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Third-strongest match for Canary in a Crater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Canary in a Crater.
Fjellward is a 2D sandbox game set in a procedurally generated world. Gather pixels, find villagers and rebuild your town.
Glasswake
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Ranked #4 for Canary in a Crater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Canary in a Crater.
Shatter towering crystals with real physics and vacuum up the rewards in this relaxing incremental salvage game. Build a robot crew with distinct personalities, upgrade your ship, and follow sonar to richer finds. Awaken an alien companion and uncover a story of discovery and unlikely friendship.
Astromine
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Ranked #5 for Canary in a Crater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Canary in a Crater.
Astromine is a survival mining game about scavenging fully destructible planets. Designed for 1 to 4 players. Land on planets and gather enough materials to fight off alien creatures, fight robot factions, build structures and spaceships, and conquer the solar system
Ad Fundum
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Ranked #6 for Canary in a Crater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Canary in a Crater.
Take control of a giant mech and dive into an exciting underground adventure in a dieselpunk world! Dig deep, collect valuable minerals, upgrade wisely, explore diverse locations, uncover ancient secrets, and try not to explode! Will you save the world or vanish in the depths below?
Diner Runners
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Ranked #7 for Canary in a Crater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Canary in a Crater.
Astra Industria
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Ranked #8 for Canary in a Crater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Canary in a Crater.
Astra Industria is a sci-fi factory builder set on colossal player-constructed space megastructures with the addictive growth of incremental games. Extract resources, craft advanced components, and automate deep-space production through a vast tech tree.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Canary in a Crater at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under Canary in a Crater on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Canary in a Crater.
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
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Priced ~50% under Canary in a Crater on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Canary in a Crater.
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
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Priced ~67% under Canary in a Crater on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Canary in a Crater.
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
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Priced ~67% under Canary in a Crater on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Canary in a Crater.
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
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Priced ~67% under Canary in a Crater on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Canary in a Crater.
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
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Priced ~67% under Canary in a Crater on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Canary in a Crater.
"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
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Priced ~67% under Canary in a Crater on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Canary in a Crater.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Canary in a Crater.
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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Canary in a Crater.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Canary in a Crater.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Canary in a Crater.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Canary in a Crater.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Canary in a Crater.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Canary in a Crater.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Canary in a Crater.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Frequently asked about Canary in a Crater
- How much does Canary in a Crater cost?
- Canary in a Crater is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Canary in a Crater?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Canary in a Crater are Miner Crysis, Orebits, Fjellward.
- Who developed Canary in a Crater?
- Canary in a Crater was developed by Iron Moose Development.
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