Games like Crude Oil
If Crude Oil is your kind of game, the closest matches are Island of Mind, Reclaimer and CLAM — 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 Crude Oil: Escape your captors as a puddle of petroleum on the run from Big Oil. Collect more oil to grow big and juicy. Bounce and slide. Operate heavy machinery. Flush polluters down the drain.
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Steam players who put hours into Crude Oil 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.
Island of Mind
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Top pick for Crude Oil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crude Oil.
A traveler is lost in an unexpected frontier: the mind of another person. Wander through the Island of Mind, a beautifully mysterious platformer dense with puzzles and secrets.
Reclaimer
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Crude Oil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crude Oil.
Become a class war folk hero in the capitalist hellscape of tomorrow, slashing through hordes of biomechanical robots and connecting the evidence in your quest to reclaim your humanity and save the world.
CLAM
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Crude Oil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crude Oil.
Clam is an odd pet rat; googly eyed, unpredictable and hyper-vigilant. One night Clam gets curious with the front door of the rat mansion and accidentally escapes with no way back in. Will this Melbourne sharehouse be as hospitable as home? Is rent really due on the 1st? Find your way, it's CLAM!
Future? No Thanks!
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Ranked #4 for Crude Oil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crude Oil.
Future? No Thanks! is a narrative-driven, open-world adventure set in an ecosocialist utopia. You're old, bitter, and scheduled for euthanasia. Enjoy your last day in a future that works for everyone but you.
Chiral
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Ranked #5 for Crude Oil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crude Oil.
A sci-fi puzzle adventure for all non-smooth brains. Solve mind-bending spatial puzzles in a sprawling corporate labyrinth as a disembodied brain in a jar, paired with a digital AI companion.
Always in Mind
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Ranked #6 for Crude Oil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crude Oil.
Wield extraordinary powers born from forgotten memories to escape a subconscious on the brink of collapse. Team up with Proxy, a living archive of your family’s history, as you slow time, bend gravity, and manifest memories in a coming-of-age adventure where technology and imagination collide.
A Chamber of Stars
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Ranked #7 for Crude Oil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crude Oil.
The rise and fall of a rock n' roll star.
Metro Gravity
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Ranked #8 for Crude Oil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crude Oil.
Explore, fight, solve puzzles and bend gravity to escape the dream-like world of the Halls! Metro Gravity is a mind-boggling musical adventure with rhythmic combat and compelling lore.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Crude Oil at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Crude Oil on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Crude 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 ~49% under Crude Oil on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Crude 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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under Crude Oil on Steam right now. Shares Action with Crude 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.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~49% under Crude Oil on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Crude 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 ~49% under Crude Oil on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Crude Oil.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Crude Oil on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Crude Oil.
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 ~69% under Crude Oil on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Crude Oil.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~49% under Crude Oil on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Crude Oil.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crude Oil.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Crude Oil.
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 Crude Oil.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crude Oil.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Crude Oil.
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!
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Crude Oil.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Crude Oil.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
![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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Frequently asked about Crude Oil
- How much does Crude Oil cost?
- Crude Oil is listed on Steam at 9.74 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Crude Oil?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crude Oil are Island of Mind, Reclaimer, CLAM.
- Who developed Crude Oil?
- Crude Oil was developed by Elfsend.
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 Crude Oil.
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