Games like Crypt Custodian
If Crypt Custodian is your kind of game, the closest matches are Constance, Adventurous Slime and Runic Curse Remastered — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and cozy. 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 →Crypt Custodian is a 2024 adventure game developed by Kyle Thompson in which players control Pluto, a cat who becomes the janitor of the afterlife. The game combines backtracking and exploration with demanding boss encounters that feature bullet-hell patterns, rewarding careful pattern recognition. Players can unlock a boss-rush mode and experiment with build variety across the experience. Reviewers highlight the character-driven narrative, noting that collecting photos unlocks touching mini-stories about other characters in this afterlife setting. Players describe the atmosphere as both atmospheric and melancholic, while adjustable difficulty and quality-of-life features keep the challenging gameplay accessible. The experience runs at a medium length designed for short sessions and is playable on Steam Deck. Crypt Custodian holds a 98 percent positive rating from 1,495 Steam reviews.
About Crypt Custodian: Crypt Custodian is a charming metroidvania about cleaning up the afterlife. Play as Pluto - a mischievous cat who has died, and is sentenced to be the afterworld's janitor... FOREVER! Hang out with other doomed ghosts, battle beasts, and explore a vastly expansive landscape.
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Constance
WHY THIS
Shares metroidvania exploration, backtracking, emotional and an atmospheric mood with Crypt Custodian.
Top pick for Crypt Custodian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
Constance is a 2D hand-drawn action adventure featuring a paintbrush-wielding artist, striving to escape from a colorful but decaying inner-world, created by her declining mental health.
Adventurous Slime
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Crypt Custodian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
A mini metroidvania game about a small but very courageous slime going on an adventure, featuring colorful pixelated visuals and chiptune songs.
Runic Curse Remastered
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Crypt Custodian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
Runic Curse Remastered is a thrilling action RPG Metroidvania that transports you to a cursed island. Explore dark and diverse locations, battle hordes of enemies and mighty bosses. Forge your own playstyle by combining various weapons with magical runes to overcome all challenges.
Key Fairy
WHY THIS
Shares boss pattern learning, collectible hunting, adventure and an atmospheric mood with Crypt Custodian.
Ranked #4 for Crypt Custodian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
Deep in an ancient forest bound by a bitter spell, a tiny fairy wanders. Wielding a spool of thread and a bladeless sword, weave through twisting paths to unearth enchanted trinkets, evading monsters and collecting stars to free their hearts from hatred in this ink-illustrated pacifist bullet-hell.
BIOMORPH
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crypt Custodian.
Ranked #5 for Crypt Custodian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
BIOMORPH is a dark metroidvania game where you become the creatures that you kill! Solve ingenious puzzles and navigate a stunning hand-drawn world. Meet quirky characters, rebuild a city, and uncover the secrets of a sprawling, fallen civilization… and of your own mysterious origins.
Insect Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Crypt Custodian.
Ranked #6 for Crypt Custodian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
In this high speed action focused metroidvania, cute bug critters face off against dark abominations from the abyss. Grab a hammer and unleash fury on soulless beasts while blasting through open ended underground zones where you dictate the pace.
isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Crypt Custodian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey is a 2D action game. Kijino, a cat-eared adventurer with two tails (Nekomata), embarks on a journey to Isekizima (Ruins Island of dreams and romance: as it was written in the tourist brochure). Explore ruins buried in the forest while enjoying folk music.
Prehistoric Gal
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Crypt Custodian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
Gal is a cave girl who had her boyfriend, Dude, abducted by aliens! Now she needs to save him, in this 2D mini metroidvania set during prehistoric times!
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SHEEPO
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Crypt Custodian.
Reviewers of Crypt Custodian cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
Explore a strange planet, collect the creatures you find, and then shape-shift into them to expand your world. Build your own path, chat with the locals, and discover the planets sprawling secrets in this quirky metroidvania platformer.
Cult of the Lamb
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crypt Custodian.
Reviewers of Crypt Custodian cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares boss rush and an atmospheric mood with Crypt Custodian.
Reviewers of Crypt Custodian cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Hyper Light Drifter
WHY THIS
Shares boss rush mode, new game plus and an atmospheric mood with Crypt Custodian.
Reviewers of Crypt Custodian cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Death's Door
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crypt Custodian.
Reviewers of Crypt Custodian cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
TUNIC
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crypt Custodian.
Reviewers of Crypt Custodian cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.
Islets
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crypt Custodian.
Reviewers of Crypt Custodian cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
Take to the sky and reunite a fragmented world in this surprisingly wholesome metroidvania! Help Iko adventure across beautiful hand-painted islands, receive letters from a quirky cast of characters, and face powerful monstrous adversaries.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Crypt Custodian at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Crypt Custodian on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Crypt Custodian on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
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?
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Crypt Custodian on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
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...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Crypt Custodian on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~95% under Crypt Custodian on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
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?
Papers, Please
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Crypt Custodian on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
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.
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 Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Constance
WHY THIS
Shares metroidvania exploration, backtracking, emotional and an atmospheric mood with Crypt Custodian.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
Constance is a 2D hand-drawn action adventure featuring a paintbrush-wielding artist, striving to escape from a colorful but decaying inner-world, created by her declining mental health.
Key Fairy
WHY THIS
Shares boss pattern learning, collectible hunting, adventure and an atmospheric mood with Crypt Custodian.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
Deep in an ancient forest bound by a bitter spell, a tiny fairy wanders. Wielding a spool of thread and a bladeless sword, weave through twisting paths to unearth enchanted trinkets, evading monsters and collecting stars to free their hearts from hatred in this ink-illustrated pacifist bullet-hell.
BIOMORPH
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crypt Custodian.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Crypt Custodian.
BIOMORPH is a dark metroidvania game where you become the creatures that you kill! Solve ingenious puzzles and navigate a stunning hand-drawn world. Meet quirky characters, rebuild a city, and uncover the secrets of a sprawling, fallen civilization… and of your own mysterious origins.
Frequently asked about Crypt Custodian
- Does Crypt Custodian run on Steam Deck?
- Crypt Custodian is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Crypt Custodian cost?
- Crypt Custodian is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Crypt Custodian?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crypt Custodian are Constance, Adventurous Slime, Runic Curse Remastered.
- Who developed Crypt Custodian?
- Crypt Custodian was developed by Kyle Thompson and published by Kyle Thompson, Top Hat Studios, Inc., H2 Interactive Co., Ltd..
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