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Games like Cross Tails

If Cross Tails is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dark Deity, Legend of Ixtona and Super Robot Wars 30 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, cozy and relaxing. 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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About Cross Tails: What will the tails witness after a crossing tale? A tactical RPG that portrays a fantasy story of a war between the canine and the feline tribes playable from both points of view.

2023StrategyAdventureSimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindowsby Rideon,Inc.
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Players who liked Cross Tails also play

Steam players who put hours into Cross Tails 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.

  1. Dark Deity

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Cross Tails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Cross Tails.

    Step into the world of Terrazael and lead soon-to-be legendary heroes in a quest to restore a land fractured by broken oaths, reckless wars, and untamed magic. Fight back in turn-based battles, manage character relationships, collect dangerous artifacts, and hopefully restore the world...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Legend of Ixtona

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Cross Tails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Cross Tails.

    Fight turn-based strategy battles and save the kingdom of Ixtona!

    2022StrategyAdventureSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Super Robot Wars 30

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Cross Tails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cross Tails.

    30 years on, the battle for our world's future continues. Super Robot Wars is a tactical RPG that brings characters and robots from a variety of mecha anime together to battle their mutual foes.

    2021StrategySimulationRPG59.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Dark Deity 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Cross Tails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Cross Tails.

    Verroa is a peaceful continent on the brink of war as the Asverellian Empire seeks to expand - at your homeland’s expense. Command unlikely heroes, fight challenging turn-based battles, and watch hardship forge iron into steel. Dark Deity is back, bigger and better than before!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Cross Tails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Cross Tails.

    The first game in the Utawarerumono trilogy of story-rich tactics RPGs. Into a world filled with verdant nature, populated by folk with fluffy ears and fuzzy tails, awakens Hakuowlo, a man of masked mien and missing memory.

    2021StrategyAdventureSimulation59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Fuga: Melodies of Steel 3

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Cross Tails.

    Ranked #6 for Cross Tails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cross Tails.

    The dramatic RPG Fuga: Melodies of Steel series is now complete!

    2025StrategySimulationRPG39.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Valkyria Chronicles 4 Complete Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Cross Tails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Cross Tails.

    A Continent Engulfed in the Bitter Flames of War! Commander Claude Wallace and his childhood friends set out to fight in a desperate war, but bone-chilling blizzards, waves of imperial soldiers, and the godlike powers of the Valkyria stand between them and victory.

    2018ActionStrategyRPG49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Fuga: Melodies of Steel

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Cross Tails.

    Ranked #8 for Cross Tails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cross Tails.

    Fuga: Melodies of Steel is an RPG where you place children, each with their own unique characteristics and skills, at different gun turrets in a tank to fight against the enemy.

    2021StrategySimulationRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Cross Tails

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Tactics Ogre: Reborn

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Cross Tails cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and RPG with Cross Tails.

    Tactics Ogre, crown jewel of the tactical role-playing genre, is reborn! Based on the 2010 release, the game features improved graphics and sound, as well as updated game design, bringing to life a new Tactics Ogre that remains true to its roots.

    2022SimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Sky Mercenaries

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Cross Tails cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Sky Mercenaries - Fast paced action overdose with rpg elements

    2014ActionIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. FINAL FANTASY

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Cross Tails.

    Reviewers of Cross Tails cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Cross Tails.

    The original FINAL FANTASY comes to life with completely new graphics and audio! A remodeled 2D take on the first game in the world-renowned FINAL FANTASY series! Enjoy the timeless story told through charming retro graphics.

    2021RPG7.79 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Mercenaries Saga 3 -Gray Wolves of War-

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Cross Tails cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cross Tails.

    “Mercenaries Saga 3: Gray Wolves of War” is a tactical simulation RPG set in a fantasy background. It is the third game of the Mercenaries Saga.

    2023StrategySimulationRPG11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cross Tails at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Cross Tails on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cross Tails.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Cross Tails on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Cross Tails.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Cross Tails on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Cross Tails.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Cross Tails on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Cross Tails.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Cross Tails on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Cross Tails.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Cross Tails on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Cross Tails.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Cross Tails on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cross Tails.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Cross Tails on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cross Tails.

    Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cross Tails.

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cross Tails.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and RPG with Cross Tails.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Cross Tails.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cross Tails.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cross Tails.

    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.

    2021IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

More from Rideon,Inc.

Other recommendable Steam games by Rideon,Inc., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Blacksmith of the Sand Kingdom

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Cross Tails.

    Another title from Rideon,Inc., the studio behind Cross Tails. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Cross Tails.

    Become the court blacksmith adventuring in the Sand Kingdom in a fantasy RPG!

    2021StrategyAdventureSimulation9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Marenian Tavern Story: Patty and the Hungry God

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Cross Tails.

    Another title from Rideon,Inc., the studio behind Cross Tails. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Cross Tails.

    Patty's brother has been possessed by the God of Poverty and the whole family has become poor. Run an adventure tavern in a fantasy land with Patty to pay their dept! A turn-based RPG where you cook, eat, collect, fight and explore!

    2019StrategyAdventureRPG9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. AdventureBarStory

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Cross Tails.

    Another title from Rideon,Inc., the studio behind Cross Tails. Shares RPG with Cross Tails.

    Adventure through the kingdom, collecting materials! Make food, manage a bar!

    2024RPG9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Brave × Junction

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Cross Tails.

    Another title from Rideon,Inc., the studio behind Cross Tails. Shares RPG with Cross Tails.

    Obtain weapons, draw cards! Do you leave it to chance or trickery? A brand-new experience, a blackjack RPG!

    2025IndieRPG7.69 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Dark Deity

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Cross Tails.

    Step into the world of Terrazael and lead soon-to-be legendary heroes in a quest to restore a land fractured by broken oaths, reckless wars, and untamed magic. Fight back in turn-based battles, manage character relationships, collect dangerous artifacts, and hopefully restore the world...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Legend of Ixtona

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Cross Tails.

    Fight turn-based strategy battles and save the kingdom of Ixtona!

    2022StrategyAdventureSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Dark Deity 2

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Cross Tails.

    Verroa is a peaceful continent on the brink of war as the Asverellian Empire seeks to expand - at your homeland’s expense. Command unlikely heroes, fight challenging turn-based battles, and watch hardship forge iron into steel. Dark Deity is back, bigger and better than before!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Cross Tails.

    The first game in the Utawarerumono trilogy of story-rich tactics RPGs. Into a world filled with verdant nature, populated by folk with fluffy ears and fuzzy tails, awakens Hakuowlo, a man of masked mien and missing memory.

    2021StrategyAdventureSimulation59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Valkyria Chronicles 4 Complete Edition

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Cross Tails.

    A Continent Engulfed in the Bitter Flames of War! Commander Claude Wallace and his childhood friends set out to fight in a desperate war, but bone-chilling blizzards, waves of imperial soldiers, and the godlike powers of the Valkyria stand between them and victory.

    2018ActionStrategyRPG49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Fuga: Melodies of Steel

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Cross Tails.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cross Tails.

    Fuga: Melodies of Steel is an RPG where you place children, each with their own unique characteristics and skills, at different gun turrets in a tank to fight against the enemy.

    2021StrategySimulationRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Cross Tails

Is Cross Tails verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Cross Tails 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 Cross Tails cost?
Cross Tails is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Cross Tails?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cross Tails are Dark Deity, Legend of Ixtona, Super Robot Wars 30.
Who developed Cross Tails?
Cross Tails was developed by Rideon,Inc. and published by KEMCO.

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 Cross Tails.

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