Games like The Excrawlers
If The Excrawlers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Obsurity, Hunt the Night and WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its build customization tailors playstyle, dark underbelly story twists and atmospheric. 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 The Excrawlers: Action-RPG slasher in which you have to get into the dark atmosphere of dungeons full of monsters and madness.
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Steam players who put hours into The Excrawlers 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.
Obsurity
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Excrawlers.
Top pick for The Excrawlers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
Discover all the secrets of two completely different worlds.
Hunt the Night
WHY THIS
Shares weapon upgrades and an atmospheric mood with The Excrawlers.
Second-strongest match for The Excrawlers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
Hunt the Night is a retro-style action-RPG that blends fast, skillful combat with dark fantasy lore. Play as Vesper, a member of the Stalkers, and traverse the ruined world of Medhram on a mission to save humanity from a deadly cycle of annihilation.
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and an atmospheric mood with The Excrawlers.
Third-strongest match for The Excrawlers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is a soulslike, action RPG set in the land of Shu during the dark and tumultuous late Ming Dynasty, plagued with warring factions and a mysterious illness spawning monstrous creatures.
Going Under
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Excrawlers.
Ranked #4 for The Excrawlers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
Going Under is a satirical dungeon crawler about exploring the cursed ruins of failed tech startups. As an unpaid intern in the dystopian city of Neo-Cascadia, you’ll wield office junk as weaponry as you make your way through the offbeat procedural dungeons beneath your company campus.
Death's Door
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Excrawlers.
Ranked #5 for The Excrawlers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
Devil Slayer - Raksasi
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Excrawlers.
Ranked #6 for The Excrawlers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
Devil Slayer - Raksasi is a top-down action game with procedurally generated dungeons, profound roguelike elements, and intuitive soul-like fighting. It's a fair and challenging game, dodging, timing, striking, you need to master them all to fight your way out of this cursed world.
Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition
WHY THIS
Shares skill trees and build customization with The Excrawlers.
Ranked #7 for The Excrawlers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Battle hordes of yokai in this masocore Action RPG. Create your protagonist and embark on an adventure through a myriad of locales across Japan during the Sengoku period. Utilize the new Yokai Shift ability to defeat even the most ferocious yokai and be prepared to brave through Dark Realms created by your enemies.
Nioh 3
WHY THIS
Shares skill trees and an immersive mood with The Excrawlers.
Ranked #8 for The Excrawlers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
In the third game in the dark samurai action RPG series Nioh, you will need to use both Samurai and Ninja combat styles in your battles against formidable yokai as you explore a thrilling open field.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Excrawlers at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under The Excrawlers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
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 ~62% under The Excrawlers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under The Excrawlers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under The Excrawlers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
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 ~62% under The Excrawlers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under The Excrawlers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
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 ~77% under The Excrawlers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under The Excrawlers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Free alternatives
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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 The Excrawlers.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
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.
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More from Game Dynasty
Other recommendable Steam games by Game Dynasty, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
DREAMOUT
WHY THIS
Another title from Game Dynasty, the studio behind The Excrawlers. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
Explore a surreal world with a drunken alpaca! Solve puzzles, fish out the most unusual items from rivers, fight watermelon thugs, and uncover all the secrets of this world!
MiceGard
WHY THIS
Another title from Game Dynasty, the studio behind The Excrawlers. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
Play MiceGard, adventure game where viking mice fight for honor, fame and survival. Explore the world inspired by Norse mythology, meet with gods and warlocks and seize the glory of the fiercest mouse-warrior in this action-packed saga!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Going Under
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Excrawlers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
Going Under is a satirical dungeon crawler about exploring the cursed ruins of failed tech startups. As an unpaid intern in the dystopian city of Neo-Cascadia, you’ll wield office junk as weaponry as you make your way through the offbeat procedural dungeons beneath your company campus.
Death's Door
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Excrawlers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
Devil Slayer - Raksasi
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Excrawlers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with The Excrawlers.
Devil Slayer - Raksasi is a top-down action game with procedurally generated dungeons, profound roguelike elements, and intuitive soul-like fighting. It's a fair and challenging game, dodging, timing, striking, you need to master them all to fight your way out of this cursed world.
Frequently asked about The Excrawlers
- Is The Excrawlers verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Excrawlers is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Excrawlers cost?
- The Excrawlers is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Excrawlers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Excrawlers are Obsurity, Hunt the Night, WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers.
- Who developed The Excrawlers?
- The Excrawlers was developed by Game Dynasty.
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