Games like Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair
If Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nova Forever, Samorost 2 and Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island — 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.
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Players who liked Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair also play
Steam players who put hours into Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair 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.
Nova Forever
WHY THIS
Top pick for Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
✨Beam yourself up into a galactic buddy comedy taking place in a giant space mall. Connect with quirky characters, solve puzzles, and form the unlikeliest friendship ever in this bright point & click adventure ride!
AdventureSteam ↗Samorost 2
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
Samorost 2 tells a surreal story of a space gnome whose dog just got kidnapped by mischievous aliens. Set out on a short expedition to rescue the pup, deal with curious strangers and relax to the soothing music by Tomáš "Floex" Dvořák.
Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery.
Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
A comedic point-and-click adventure where a hungover antique dealer must solve his own robbery in Paris, dragging himself and his friends into a wildly idiotic journey!
Mutropolis
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
MUTROPOLIS is a lovely sci-fi adventure set on the abandoned Planet Earth. Play as Henry Dijon (hero, nerd, detective) in search of a legendary lost city. Uncover weird ancient artifacts. And PLEASE don’t get obliterated by an ageless evil. You’ve been warned.
Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery in the wild west.
Jorel’s Brother and The Most Important Game of the Galaxy - Complete Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
“Jorel’s Brother and The Most Important Game of the Galaxy” is a point-and-click adventure about an eight-year-old boy who lives with his eccentric family in the shadow of Jorel, his handsome and popular brother. Based on the award-winning Brazilian animation “Jorel’s Brother”.
The Darkside Detective
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Flesh-hungry tentacles, mafian zombies, and the occasional missing sock are no match for The Darkside Detective.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
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.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
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 ~50% under Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
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. Shares Adventure with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
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 Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Samorost 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
Samorost 2 tells a surreal story of a space gnome whose dog just got kidnapped by mischievous aliens. Set out on a short expedition to rescue the pup, deal with curious strangers and relax to the soothing music by Tomáš "Floex" Dvořák.
Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery.
Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
A comedic point-and-click adventure where a hungover antique dealer must solve his own robbery in Paris, dragging himself and his friends into a wildly idiotic journey!
Mutropolis
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
MUTROPOLIS is a lovely sci-fi adventure set on the abandoned Planet Earth. Play as Henry Dijon (hero, nerd, detective) in search of a legendary lost city. Uncover weird ancient artifacts. And PLEASE don’t get obliterated by an ageless evil. You’ve been warned.
Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery in the wild west.
The Darkside Detective
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair.
Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Flesh-hungry tentacles, mafian zombies, and the occasional missing sock are no match for The Darkside Detective.
Frequently asked about Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair
- How much does Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair cost?
- Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair are Nova Forever, Samorost 2, Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island.
- Who developed Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair?
- Tales from the Crossing: The Captain's Chair was developed by RifRaf Games.
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