Games like Crafty Survivors
If Crafty Survivors is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pesticide Not Required, Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot and Kitty Survivors: Rogues of Catmere — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Crafty Survivors: All heroes got corrupted! Unlock a diverse cast of crafty professionals, use their unique skills, create your own builds and defend your home by eliminating hordes of monsters. Gather materials, rebuild your village and craft your way to the origin of this malignous curse!
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Pesticide Not Required
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Crafty Survivors.
Top pick for Crafty Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
Mow down countless crops and corrupt critters while crafting game-breaking builds! Pesticide Not Required is an action roguelite bullet heaven game with farming sim elements that offers a myriad of stats and special character traits to create wildly diverse run possibilities.
Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crafty Survivors.
Second-strongest match for Crafty Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
Welcome to Slime 3K, an unhinged roguelite bullet-heaven set in the Despot’s Game universe! Build a deck of crazy weapons, grow stronger and devour hordes of pink puny humans as a murderous jelly blob on a warpath of death, violence and pretzels.
Kitty Survivors: Rogues of Catmere
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Crafty Survivors.
Third-strongest match for Crafty Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
Kitty Survivors is a funny action rogue-lite game where you slay hordes of creatures, create overpowered builds, use elemental skills and craft stupid weapons. Join a growing guild of misfits with a thirst for milk, hired to protect the Kingdom of Catmere!
Spellbook Demonslayers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crafty Survivors.
Ranked #4 for Crafty Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
Slay endless hordes of demons to protect the Cosmic Library! Steal their abilities, find powerful equipment, and unlock the secrets of each spellbook to become unstoppable! Will you be able to destroy the demonic legion?
Keeper's Toll
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crafty Survivors.
Ranked #5 for Crafty Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
Delve into Keeper’s Toll, an action-packed roguelite brimming with challenge and despair. Survive against an onslaught of relentless hordes and grueling bosses with skill-based ARPG gameplay. Embrace the darkness and cleanse these cursed lands.
NIMRODS
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crafty Survivors.
Ranked #6 for Crafty Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
Assemble a limitless arsenal in this survive-em-up roguelite shooter. As a Gun Manufacturer's testing force, your mission is simple: test the latest gun tech and scavenge alien planets. Collect insane weapon parts to invent crazy guns that slay thousands. You may not survive, but your guns will!
Elemental Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crafty Survivors.
Ranked #7 for Crafty Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
Grind, die, upgrade, repeat in this auto-attacking roguelite/RPG! Transform into an enemy-blender with your fave attacks made devastating with equipment, party members, and elemental evolutions. Survive to earn gems to unlock areas, permanent upgrades, characters, and god-like summons.
Larva Mortus
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crafty Survivors.
Ranked #8 for Crafty Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
Larva Mortus is a fast-paced hack and slash top-down shooter. As an agent specializing in exorcism, you are tasked to hunt monsters of the supernatural in a dark, ominous, and randomly generated atmosphere full of undead, terrifying and demonic nightmares.
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Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crafty Survivors.
Reviewers of Crafty Survivors cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
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!
Path of Exile
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crafty Survivors.
Reviewers of Crafty Survivors cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.
Rogue Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Crafty Survivors.
Reviewers of Crafty Survivors cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
Risk of Rain 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crafty Survivors.
Reviewers of Crafty Survivors cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crafty Survivors.
Reviewers of Crafty Survivors cross-mention this title as a similar play.
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!
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crafty Survivors.
Reviewers of Crafty Survivors cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Crafty Survivors at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crafty Survivors.
Priced ~58% under Crafty Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Crafty Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Crafty Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Crafty Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Crafty Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Crafty Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Crafty Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
ROUNDS
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Crafty Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
Rounds is a 1v1 rogue-lite shooter where each round gets more intense. The losing player of each round unlocks clever upgrades to create a better build to counter their opponent.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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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.
Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crafty Survivors.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
Welcome to Slime 3K, an unhinged roguelite bullet-heaven set in the Despot’s Game universe! Build a deck of crazy weapons, grow stronger and devour hordes of pink puny humans as a murderous jelly blob on a warpath of death, violence and pretzels.
Keeper's Toll
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crafty Survivors.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
Delve into Keeper’s Toll, an action-packed roguelite brimming with challenge and despair. Survive against an onslaught of relentless hordes and grueling bosses with skill-based ARPG gameplay. Embrace the darkness and cleanse these cursed lands.
NIMRODS
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crafty Survivors.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Crafty Survivors.
Assemble a limitless arsenal in this survive-em-up roguelite shooter. As a Gun Manufacturer's testing force, your mission is simple: test the latest gun tech and scavenge alien planets. Collect insane weapon parts to invent crazy guns that slay thousands. You may not survive, but your guns will!
Frequently asked about Crafty Survivors
- Is Crafty Survivors verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Crafty Survivors 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 Crafty Survivors cost?
- Crafty Survivors is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Crafty Survivors?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crafty Survivors are Pesticide Not Required, Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot, Kitty Survivors: Rogues of Catmere.
- Who developed Crafty Survivors?
- Crafty Survivors was developed by Flannel Bear Games.
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