Games like Island Crusaders
If Island Crusaders is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gelluloid Domination, Amogus TD 2 - Defense of the Sus and EverSiege: Untold Ages — 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 Island Crusaders: Island Crusaders is a cute yet brutal tactical RTS game. Defend your home against swarms of enemies as your picturesque island gets stained by the blood of your enemies. Unlock new and unique units, strategically place and move them, and defeat the impending army.
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Gelluloid Domination
WHY THIS
Top pick for Island Crusaders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Island Crusaders.
Gelluloid Domination is a fast-paced, strategic and tactical game where you grow a network of cells. Expand by assimilating nearby cells, fight off pathogens and develop nanoboosts in the lab. Other cells want to propagate their DNA too, so this won't be easy. Can your cells achieve domination?
Amogus TD 2 - Defense of the Sus
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Island Crusaders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Island Crusaders.
Sussy tower defense game with unlimited ways to play the game. Play with unique towers and upgrade them to create perfect defense. Master every map and become the greatest sussy commander.
EverSiege: Untold Ages
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Island Crusaders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Island Crusaders.
Retreating ends here. Defend Bastion against evil hordes, reclaim lost powers, rebuild ancient ruins, and adapt your tactics to reverse the siege. Shape your playstyle in this hero-strategy rogue-lite solo or co-op up to 3 players.
Door Kickers 2: Task Force North
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Island Crusaders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Island Crusaders.
Command military Special Ops Teams in gripping tactical combat against a Middle East-based terrorist network. Sequel to RockPaperShotgun's "Best Tactics Game of 2014".
Leave No One Behind: Ia Drang
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Island Crusaders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Island Crusaders.
Leave No One Behind is tactical real time strategy war game. Experience some of the hardest battles fought during the Vietnam War in 1965 between US Army and the Army of the Northern Vietnam for landing zones X-Ray and Albany and for Plei Me special forces camp.
Age of Darkness: Final Stand
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Island Crusaders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Island Crusaders.
Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.
Fire Commander
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Ranked #7 for Island Crusaders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Island Crusaders.
See what it means to face the fire. Command a firefighting unit in an exciting tactical RTS. Save lives, manage your water supplies and care for your team in 30+ missions. Be a real hero!
Attack on Toys
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Island Crusaders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Island Crusaders.
Relive Your Childhood Toys comes to life! Build your Army Toys, make battle scenario, watch the Toys battling each other, and customize your play with Attack on Toys Toy Box. Command your Army Toys to fight againts another toys strategically and keep them alive during battle!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Island Crusaders at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Island Crusaders on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Island Crusaders.
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
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Priced ~60% under Island Crusaders on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Island Crusaders.
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 Island Crusaders on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Island Crusaders.
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 Island Crusaders on Steam right now. Shares Action with Island Crusaders.
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 Island Crusaders on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Island Crusaders.
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.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Island Crusaders on Steam right now. Shares Action with Island Crusaders.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Island Crusaders on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Island Crusaders.
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!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Island Crusaders on Steam right now. Shares Action with Island Crusaders.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Island Crusaders.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Island Crusaders.
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.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Island Crusaders.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Island Crusaders.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Island Crusaders.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Island Crusaders.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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!
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More from Keaton Applebaum
Other recommendable Steam games by Keaton Applebaum, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Now Testing: 407
WHY THIS
Another title from Keaton Applebaum, the studio behind Island Crusaders. Shares Action and Indie with Island Crusaders.
A puzzle-platform game taking place inside of a videogame where you can exploit glitches to solve puzzles and traverse outside of the actual game map.
Animalistic
WHY THIS
Another title from Keaton Applebaum, the studio behind Island Crusaders. Shares Action and Indie with Island Crusaders.
Animalistic is a fast-paced, ultraviolent, and stylish indie FPS game where you brutally clear room after room of creepy humanoid animals. Featuring a story-mode and endless wave mode!
Midnight Acres
WHY THIS
Another title from Keaton Applebaum, the studio behind Island Crusaders. Shares Action and Indie with Island Crusaders.
Experience Midnight Acres — an indie farming sim by day, and intense FPS by night. Unwind and battle on, all in one game as you grow and nurture your farm, plan and upgrade turrets and defenses, engage in combat with horrifying beasts, and explore the beautiful and mysterious world around you!
Frequently asked about Island Crusaders
- How much does Island Crusaders cost?
- Island Crusaders is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Island Crusaders?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Island Crusaders are Gelluloid Domination, Amogus TD 2 - Defense of the Sus, EverSiege: Untold Ages.
- Who developed Island Crusaders?
- Island Crusaders was developed by Keaton Applebaum and published by Applebomb Games.
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