Games like Crude Oil
Below are 20 hand-picked alternatives to Crude Oil for fans of action, indie, adventure, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Crude Oil also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, free-to-play picks, and Steam Deck–friendly options. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
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.
Players who liked Crude Oil also play
Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Floppy Cat Adventures
Top pick for Crude Oil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crude Oil.
Explore a fun and dangerous open world in this darkly comedic soulslike RPG! Talk your way out of (or into) problems, battle monsters, befriend or betray the villagers, learn magic, collect tools and weapons, oh yeah - and find out how you got turned into a cat!
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Star Overdrive
Second-strongest match for Crude Oil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crude Oil.
Star Overdrive is a high-speed action adventure set in an open world. Race across an alien planet on your Hoverboard, mastering tricks, battling enemies, solving puzzles, and using your powers to overcome challenges and shape your destiny!
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Metro Gravity
Third-strongest match 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.
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Escape From Lavender Island
Ranked #4 for Crude Oil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crude Oil.
Explore a dream that refuses to end. As Zede Aksis, wander a surreal city that feels both alive and liminal, filled with digital citizens and absurd infrastructure. Can you find an escape? A way out of a world that remembers you better than you remember it?
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Miner Ultra Adventures 2
Ranked #5 for Crude Oil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crude Oil.
Our friend Miner is back !!! Amazing adventures with extreme difficulty, this 3d platform game will surprise you and give you a lot of satisfaction to overcome all the challenges !!! Be versatile and have quick reflexes to be the best !!!
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Blue Fire
Ranked #6 for Crude Oil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crude Oil.
Explore the fallen world of Penumbra in this precision 3D metroidvania platformer. Slash fierce enemies, conquer deadly traps, uncover ancient temples, and master fast, fluid movement across challenging platforming gauntlets in your quest to restore a fallen kingdom.
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Completely Stretchy
Ranked #7 for Crude Oil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crude Oil.
A befuddling mishap has made you COMPLETELY STRETCHY! Stretch, swing and stick around the delightfully odd and vibrant Grombi Isles in this eccentric and light-hearted 3D platformer.
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Viewfinder
Ranked #8 for Crude Oil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crude Oil.
Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Crude Oil.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Crude Oil.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Crude Oil.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crude Oil.
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?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
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.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Crude Oil.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
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Star Overdrive
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Crude Oil.
Star Overdrive is a high-speed action adventure set in an open world. Race across an alien planet on your Hoverboard, mastering tricks, battling enemies, solving puzzles, and using your powers to overcome challenges and shape your destiny!
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Blue Fire
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Crude Oil.
Explore the fallen world of Penumbra in this precision 3D metroidvania platformer. Slash fierce enemies, conquer deadly traps, uncover ancient temples, and master fast, fluid movement across challenging platforming gauntlets in your quest to restore a fallen kingdom.
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Completely Stretchy
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crude Oil.
A befuddling mishap has made you COMPLETELY STRETCHY! Stretch, swing and stick around the delightfully odd and vibrant Grombi Isles in this eccentric and light-hearted 3D platformer.
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Viewfinder
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crude Oil.
Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.
Frequently asked about Crude Oil
- 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 Floppy Cat Adventures, Star Overdrive, Metro Gravity.
- 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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