Games like Crate Mates
If Crate Mates is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rimebeard, Khoros and Tiny Robo Puzzles — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and block pushing. 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 Crate Mates: The pinnacle of warehouse simulators. Crate Mates is a block pushing puzzle game with a unique twist: Gravity.
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Steam players who put hours into Crate Mates 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.
Rimebeard
WHY THIS
Top pick for Crate Mates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crate Mates.
Create, remove and push blocks of ice strategically to extinguish all flames in each level. Use various other elements like rocks, crates, pipes and more to your advantage.
Khoros
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Crate Mates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crate Mates.
Khoros is a theatrical puzzle set on Ancient Greek theater's charming scenarios. Guide Ere in a path to glory performing the most acclaimed plays. Bring together a powerful cast and rise against the fiercest critics of the era!
Tiny Robo Puzzles
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Crate Mates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Crate Mates.
Tiny Robo Puzzles Contains 4 Tiny Sokoban Style Puzzle Games that you can enjoy!
Super Retro BoxBot
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crate Mates.
Ranked #4 for Crate Mates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crate Mates.
1990s-style puzzle gameplay inspired by the DOS classics Block-man and Loader Larry, Super Retro BoxBot is sure to entertain and challenge you through its hand-crafted levels! You can also create your very own challenges with the included level editor! Put your puzzle-solving skills to the test!
Mimi the Cat - New Friends
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Crate Mates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crate Mates.
Help Mimi move, climb, or carry boxes to reach her bed and rest. Unlock adorable cats and choose to play with them in this challenging Sokoban-like game!
Mimi the Cat - Mimi's Scratcher
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Crate Mates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crate Mates.
Move boxes, jump on everything in sight, Mimi loves challenges like jumping long distances. Help her reach her scratcher!
Pop and Chicks
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Crate Mates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crate Mates.
Help Pop the hen rescue her chicks. Take one move at a time, and be careful where you're going.
Meet me at NooN
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Crate Mates.
Ranked #8 for Crate Mates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crate Mates.
Could time go backwards? Meet me at NooN is a time manipulation turn-based puzzle-platformer with Tenet inspired mechanics. Control two characters, create perfect time loops and solve brain melting time puzzles.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Crate Mates at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Crate Mates on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crate Mates.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Crate Mates on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crate Mates.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Crate Mates on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crate Mates.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Crate Mates on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Crate Mates.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Crate Mates on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Crate Mates.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Crate Mates on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Crate Mates.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Crate Mates on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crate Mates.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Crate Mates on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crate Mates.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crate Mates.
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 Crate Mates.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Crate Mates.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Crate Mates.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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 Crate Mates.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crate Mates.
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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Other recommendable Steam games by Emerick Gibson, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
City Maker
WHY THIS
Another title from Emerick Gibson, the studio behind Crate Mates. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crate Mates.
Will you manage to make a thriving metropolis or will you have to settle for a small rural town?
Hexton
WHY THIS
Another title from Emerick Gibson, the studio behind Crate Mates. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crate Mates.
Explore, build, harvest. Hexton is a relaxing building game where you try to create the largest city possible. Looking for a light challenge? This game's for you!
The people of Sea, Sun & Salt
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Crate Mates.
Another title from Emerick Gibson, the studio behind Crate Mates. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crate Mates.
Will you create a lasting civilization or see it collapse into the sea? In Sea, Sun & Salt, you build a city on a small mediterranean island. Define the tenets of your culture, deal with your subjects' needs and withstand the forces of the elements.
Frequently asked about Crate Mates
- How much does Crate Mates cost?
- Crate Mates is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Crate Mates?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crate Mates are Rimebeard, Khoros, Tiny Robo Puzzles.
- Who developed Crate Mates?
- Crate Mates was developed by Emerick Gibson.
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