Games like CRETE
Below are 16 hand-picked alternatives to CRETE for fans of action, adventure, early access, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in CRETE also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, free-to-play picks. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About CRETE: Fight against the Ancestors and other biopunk creatures. Use their DNA to build your own procedural weapons, find a friend and combine your skills to be even more powerful. The further you go, the better rewards you will get for the next run. It is up to you to reveal what is up there in the north.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Unshelved
Top pick for CRETE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with CRETE.
Unshelved is an up to 4-player co-op Work-Life Horror Sim where you manage a cursed library. By day, handle book requests and earn an honest living. But as night falls, you must return books to their shelves and survive the horrors that haunt the halls!
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Hover Point
Second-strongest match for CRETE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with CRETE.
Hover Point is a physics-based rogue-lite bullet hell where movement is your weapon. Dodge chaotic swarms with auto-fire action, build your skill tree, and climb global leaderboards. Master the chaos solo or in co-op via mouse-only, keyboard-only, or controller-only playstyles.
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Death Blonde
Third-strongest match for CRETE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with CRETE.
Death Blonde is a car combat shooter with survival and competitive battlegrounds. Customize your ride and battle endless hordes in single-player or online co-op. Jump into explosive matches and outgun your rivals. Drive fast, shoot hard and do it in style, because even death deserves fashion.
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SPACE HUG-DUNG
Ranked #4 for CRETE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with CRETE.
"Infiltrate mysterious planetary facilities to snatch the core 'Hug-Dung' and escape. Battle giant robots and alien creatures in 4-player co-op, secure the core, and return to the extraction pod in this sci-fi action experience."
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Terminull Brigade™
Ranked #5 for CRETE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with CRETE.
Rise with Aion — ignite the rebellion, slay the foes, rally your allies, and unmask Terminull’s deepest, most dangerous secrets before they can rewrite our world.
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Pebble Knights
Ranked #6 for CRETE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with CRETE.
Purge the spreading Hell Fungus in this 1–5 player co-op roguelike. Scavenge by day, survive relentless nights. Eat your way to power. When a teammate falls, eat them. Build massive synergies and snowball every run. Fight… or be consumed.
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Lost Fleet
Ranked #7 for CRETE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with CRETE.
Lost Fleet is a co-op space shooter. Every ship in your fleet is flyable, from the smallest fighter to the largest battleship. Protect the Mothership, mine resources, crush your enemies.
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Ultra Mega Cats
Ranked #8 for CRETE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with CRETE.
Blast your way through hordes of enemies in Ultra Mega Cats, a cooperative roguelike third-person shooter. Play As one of the Mega Cats, armed to the fangs with a wide variety of abilities and escape captivity from your Rodent and Bird Overlords!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with CRETE.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with CRETE.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with CRETE.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with CRETE.
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.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with CRETE.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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NGU IDLE
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with CRETE.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about CRETE
- Does CRETE have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — CRETE supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to CRETE?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CRETE are Unshelved, Hover Point, Death Blonde.
- Who developed CRETE?
- CRETE was developed by Mayhem Mirror Studios.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on CRETE.
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