Games like Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk
If Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Elmian Warrior, Hack and Slime and The Summoning — 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 Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk: Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk is the first episodic entry in the Crystal Story epic, and features charming retro-style graphics, with fast-paced action and turn-based battles, inspired by 16-bit classics!
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The Elmian Warrior
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Top pick for Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
Get yourself ready to come across ancient ruins, an abandoned city, and more to gear up and slaughter TONS of demons with nothing but your own wits, and whatever treasures you can find!
Hack and Slime
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Second-strongest match for Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
What could be scarier than a massive dungeon-tower infested with skulls, ogres, and dragons? That those same monsters ride the largest multinational in the world with it. You know; business is business.
The Summoning
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Third-strongest match for Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
The Summoning is a fantasy role-playing adventure, set inside a huge labyrinth with 40 different levels and hordes of monsters. Use steel, magic and wit to fight, cast and puzzle your way through the evil that lies within. Struggle to survive and grow strong enough to fight and defeat Shadow Weaver.
AI LIMIT
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Ranked #4 for Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
In the distant future when civilization is on the verge of extinction, people follow the legend of the Elysium in the last city, Havenswell. In this post-apocalyptic wasteland sci-fi ARPG, you will play as Arrisa, a Blader with immortality, and explore the city ruin to find the hope of a new life.
Dungeons of Hinterberg
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Ranked #5 for Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
Discover the magic and lore of the Alps in this acclaimed Action Adventure. Forge relationships with locals to help you solve puzzles, battle monsters and uncover secrets of the legendary Dungeons of Hinterberg!
Death's Door
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Ranked #6 for Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
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.
Vaporum
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Ranked #7 for Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
Vaporum is a grid-based dungeon crawler RPG in an original steampunk setting, inspired by old-school classics of the genre. Stranded in the middle of an ocean, in front of a gigantic tower, the hero has to find out what the place is, what happened there, and most importantly, who he is.
Deus Ex: The Fall
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Ranked #8 for Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
Deus Ex: The Fall is set in 2027– a golden era for science, technology and human augmentation, but also a time of great social divide and global conspiracy. Powerful corporations have seized control from governments and command the drug supply needed by augmented humans to survive.
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Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~83% under Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
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
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Priced ~50% under Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
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Priced ~67% under Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~75% under Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
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 ~83% under Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~50% under Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~50% under Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~50% under Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk.
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.
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Frequently asked about Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk
- Is Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk 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 Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk cost?
- Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk are The Elmian Warrior, Hack and Slime, The Summoning.
- Who developed Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk?
- Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk was developed by Fred Brown and published by Fred Brown Games, LLC..
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