Games like CRUX
If CRUX is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ziggurat, Hordelord and Bloodshed — 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.
Get personalized picks →About CRUX: Crux is a fast-paced single-player arena shooter roguelike, where you face waves of enemies, unique bossfights and earn powerful magic abilities across 13 arenas. Master your fluid movement, trusty arsenal and the power of the blood gods to reach the top of the CRUX Champions Leaderboard!
Players who liked CRUX also play
Steam players who put hours into CRUX 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.
Ziggurat
WHY THIS
Top pick for CRUX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CRUX.
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!
Hordelord
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for CRUX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CRUX.
Hi-octane arena shooter where you face waves of nasty enemies. Use destructive weapons and high mobility to secure your spot on global leaderboards. Expect tight gunplay, satisfying kills, and meaningful upgrades.
Bloodshed
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for CRUX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CRUX.
Bloodshed is a Roguelite Survivors FPS; an exhilarating fusion of Roguelite elements merged with retro-styled visuals and first-person “Survivors-like” frenetic combat action!
Ziggurat 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for CRUX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CRUX.
Ziggurat is back, and now it's even better! Use powerful weapons and spells to break through hordes of enemies and explore labyrinthine dungeons in this hectic roguelite FPS, while you improve your skills and discover new equipment.
Impaler Gold
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for CRUX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CRUX.
Impaler Gold is a fast-paced minimalistic arena shooter - now expanded and improved. Summon spikes to slay monsters, build barriers, and propel yourself into the air. Challenge yourself in this highly replayable rogue-lite shooter inspired by the classics.
Seraph's Last Stand
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for CRUX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with CRUX.
Create insane builds and break the game in all possible ways to get your name into the leaderboards! Every round you get stronger, but so does the enemies...
Vampire Hunters
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for CRUX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CRUX.
To hunt vampires, you'll need guns. Lots of guns. Mow down hordes of undead creatures by stacking your guns into absurd, over-the-top builds. Unleash your firepower and survive the mayhem in this Roguelite Survivors FPS.
HELLBREAK
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for CRUX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CRUX.
HELLBREAK is a fast-paced roguelite, survivor-like FPS where you fight through escalating waves in brutal arenas in Hell. Build powerful loadouts, earn favor from demon lords to unlock new gear, and climb the leaderboards for your salvation.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below CRUX at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under CRUX on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CRUX.
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 ~62% under CRUX on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with CRUX.
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 ~46% under CRUX on Steam right now. Shares Action with CRUX.
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 ~65% under CRUX on Steam right now. Shares Action with CRUX.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under CRUX on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CRUX.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under CRUX on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CRUX.
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 ~62% under CRUX on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CRUX.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under CRUX on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with CRUX.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CRUX.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with CRUX.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with CRUX.
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.).
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with CRUX.
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.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with CRUX.
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!
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!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with CRUX.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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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.
Ziggurat
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with CRUX.
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!
Bloodshed
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with CRUX.
Bloodshed is a Roguelite Survivors FPS; an exhilarating fusion of Roguelite elements merged with retro-styled visuals and first-person “Survivors-like” frenetic combat action!
Impaler Gold
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with CRUX.
Impaler Gold is a fast-paced minimalistic arena shooter - now expanded and improved. Summon spikes to slay monsters, build barriers, and propel yourself into the air. Challenge yourself in this highly replayable rogue-lite shooter inspired by the classics.
Vampire Hunters
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with CRUX.
To hunt vampires, you'll need guns. Lots of guns. Mow down hordes of undead creatures by stacking your guns into absurd, over-the-top builds. Unleash your firepower and survive the mayhem in this Roguelite Survivors FPS.
HELLBREAK
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with CRUX.
HELLBREAK is a fast-paced roguelite, survivor-like FPS where you fight through escalating waves in brutal arenas in Hell. Build powerful loadouts, earn favor from demon lords to unlock new gear, and climb the leaderboards for your salvation.
Frequently asked about CRUX
- How much does CRUX cost?
- CRUX is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to CRUX?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CRUX are Ziggurat, Hordelord, Bloodshed.
- Who developed CRUX?
- CRUX was developed by Blackout Softworks sh.p.k..
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 CRUX.
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