Games like Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!
If Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! is your kind of game, the closest matches are Barkhan, STEEL PHANTOMS and Prime Domination — 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 Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!: Grimstar is a real-time strategy game with a story-based single-player campaign. Your brother's sudden death has hit you hard, but the laws of the corporation for which he laid down his life dictate that you must take his place until his contract is fulfilled...
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Barkhan
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Top pick for Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
A harsh sand planet has become the stage for a brutal war between three Great Clans. For the power over rare minerals each wants to prove their superiority. In the heat of dynamic battles with the enemy's troops, be prepared to face and attack giant Sand Snakes.
STEEL PHANTOMS
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Second-strongest match for Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
A modern military RTS. Command one of three armies - real tanks, drones, rocket artillery, and mobile AA. Cloak past defenses, hose drones with flak, rain ballistic strikes, and crush the enemy base. Battle friends online or skirmish vs AI. Tactics over twitch.
Prime Domination
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Third-strongest match for Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
Prime Domination is a real-time strategy game where you build your base, manage finance, produce powerful military units, and battle against AI or other players in large-scale multiplayer matches with up to 10 commanders.
Cosmic Robots
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Ranked #4 for Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
Defend your planet from waves of robot invaders! Build powerful turrets, upgrade your defenses, and command robot units to fight drones, tanks, and massive bosses. Then send your own forces to attack the enemy planet in this action-packed sci-fi tower defense game.
The AeonFall
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Ranked #5 for Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
Endless waves of 100,000 infected pour toward you. A brutally hard roguelike defense built on the Paradox of Progress: every advance raises the noise, and louder noise draws a deadlier swarm. Design your base, break through with one unit you control, and adapt each run. Survive a planet alone.
Knights vs Aliens
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Ranked #6 for Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
Command knights, aliens, and other historically dubious nations in a free real-time tower conquest game rebuilt from a 2009 iPad original. Grow armies, capture towers, and outmaneuver adaptive AI through 30 campaign levels.
Stickman World Battle
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Ranked #7 for Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
Stickman World Battle - new exciting and thrilling real-time strategy with famous stickman heroes!
Guardians of Elderon
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Ranked #8 for Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
Guardians of Elderon is a free-to-play combat-focused base builder game. Here you get to create your very own fantasy base, summon powerful guardians, go on unique quests and attack the base of other players to become the greatest summoner in Elderon!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~62% under Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
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
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Priced ~62% under Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~46% under Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! on Steam right now. Shares Action with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~65% under Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! on Steam right now. Shares Action with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~42% under Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~52% under Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
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
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Priced ~62% under Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
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
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Priced ~62% under Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
Electoral Carnage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
South Scrimshaw, Part One
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
Counter-Strike 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
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Frequently asked about Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!
- Does Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! run on Steam Deck?
- Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! cost?
- Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! are Barkhan, STEEL PHANTOMS, Prime Domination.
- Who developed Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil!?
- Grimstar: Crystals are the New Oil! was developed by SvenRahn Games and published by indie.io.
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