Games like Below the Crown
If Below the Crown is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pawns into the Dark, MEGACHESS and Zeitnot — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and mysterious. 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 Below the Crown: Explore the dungeons Below the Crown, in this love letter to Roguelikes, Dungeon Crawlers, and Chess. Prepare for strategy, game-changing spells, psychological tests, and challenges from your fellow players. From the award-winning creators of Duskers & A Virus Named TOM.
Players who liked Below the Crown also play
Steam players who put hours into Below the Crown 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.
Pawns into the Dark
WHY THIS
Top pick for Below the Crown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
The worst may be standing right next to you. Lead four adventurers through a dungeon shrouded in darkness, uncovering one tile at a time in a turn-based tactical game of limited resources and uncertain threats.
MEGACHESS
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Below the Crown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
MEGACHESS is a roguelite dungeon crawler with chess elements. Blast through high-paced tactical battles, adapt your army against outnumbering foes, craft and combine your units to form MEGA-PIECES and obliterate the bosses.
Zeitnot
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Below the Crown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Below the Crown.
Chess you already know, rules you don't. Pieces have HP and gear. Shop between fights, stack gambits, roll the dice if you're feeling stupid. Lose the trial, lose the run.
Dice chess
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Below the Crown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
A new-age chess game combined with math. Free to play with your bro offline, your friends or any players online.
Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Below the Crown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
A tactical roguelike role-playing game based in the original thousand-year classic, Chess
THROWN
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Below the Crown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Below the Crown.
Roll for survival. THROWN is a roguelike dicebuilder combining turn-based strategy and horror. Trapped in the basement, forced to play a twisted tabletop game against your kidnapper, grow your dice bag and piece together who you are, and why you're here.
StrategySteam ↗DEATHMATE
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Below the Crown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
DEATHMATE is a chess-themed roguelike deckbuilder. Build an army of pieces, stack a deck full of moves, and battle your way across the map towards the Grim Reaper.
Of Grit & Graves
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Below the Crown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
A roguelite turn-based tactical RPG inspired by classic tabletop dungeon crawlers, where strategic thinking meets the thrill of the dice. Command your party in tense tactical grid combat across seven perilous realms to destroy the prismatic dragon and end the curse.
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Shotgun Knight
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Below the Crown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Below the Crown.
Shotgun Knight is a hardcore precision platformer. You will embark on an impossible climb with nothing but yourself and a shotgun to propel yourself upwards while falling losing all your progress countless times.
Duskers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Below the Crown.
Reviewers of Below the Crown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.
Into the Breach
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Below the Crown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Below the Crown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Below the Crown at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Below the Crown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Below the Crown.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Below the Crown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Below the Crown.
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!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Below the Crown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Below the Crown.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Below the Crown on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Below the Crown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Below the Crown.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Below the Crown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Below the Crown.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Below the Crown on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Below the Crown.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Below the Crown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Below the Crown.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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 Indie with Below the Crown.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Below the Crown.
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.
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Below the Crown.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Below the Crown.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Below the Crown.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Below the Crown.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Below the Crown.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Misfits Attic
Other recommendable Steam games by Misfits Attic, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Duskers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Below the Crown.
Another title from Misfits Attic, the studio behind Below the Crown. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.
A Virus Named TOM
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Below the Crown.
Another title from Misfits Attic, the studio behind Below the Crown. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
Hack your way through brain scrambling puzzles while maneuvering through a thumb cramping maze of enemies.
Duskers 2.0
WHY THIS
Another title from Misfits Attic, the studio behind Below the Crown. Shares Strategy with Below the Crown.
What will you sacrifice to bring humanity back? Scavenge derelict spacecraft with your drones via a command-line interface, navigating past whatever is still alive in the dark, in order to save what little of humanity is left.
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Frequently asked about Below the Crown
- Is Below the Crown verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Below the Crown 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 Below the Crown cost?
- Below the Crown is listed on Steam at 9.74 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Below the Crown?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Below the Crown are Pawns into the Dark, MEGACHESS, Zeitnot.
- Who developed Below the Crown?
- Below the Crown was developed by Misfits Attic and published by Misfits Attic, Shochiku.
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