Games like Crime Simulator
If Crime Simulator is your kind of game, the closest matches are Crime Simulator: Playgrounds, Mafia Life Simulator and PAYDAY 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, funny and immersive. 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 →Crime Simulator is a co-op heist game from CookieDev, published by Ultimate Games and PlayWay in 2025. Fresh out of jail and in debt, players sneak into houses solo or in four-player co-op, picking locks, using sleeping gas, and managing inventory while learning guard patrols to hit a quota before time runs out. It runs 82% positive across 1,852 Steam reviews and is Playable on Steam Deck. Reviewers point to the deep skill system, the loot-goblin satisfaction of filling an inventory, and chaotic sessions with friends. Priced at $14.99 and built around stealth-based heists and open-world exploration, it pairs progression unlocks with mission-based jobs across an urban crime-simulation setting.
About Crime Simulator: You’re out of jail, but the debt isn’t gone. Sneak, steal, and break into houses solo or in 4-player co-op. Use lockpicks, sleeping gas, and brute force to complete jobs, outsmart security, and make enough money before time runs out. Will you pay back what you owe, or lose everything?
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Crime Simulator: Playgrounds
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration, crime simulation and an intense mood with Crime Simulator.
Top pick for Crime Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crime Simulator.
Crime Simulator: Playgrounds is a short, chaotic, and hilarious entry in the Crime Simulator franchise. Throw hammers, spray pepper gas, and cause mayhem solo or with up to 4 players. Take over hideouts, complete absurd missions, and unleash destruction with the wildest weapons. No rules—just fun!
Mafia Life Simulator
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Crime Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crime Simulator.
Build your own empire in the world of the mafia! In Mafia Life Simulator, take control of everything from marijuana farms to weapon factories, money laundering centers to drug networks. Become the undisputed leader of the region with your gang and make your name known in the world of crime.
PAYDAY 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Crime Simulator.
Third-strongest match for Crime Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Crime Simulator.
PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew - Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains - as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree.
PAYDAY™ The Heist
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Crime Simulator.
Ranked #4 for Crime Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Crime Simulator.
Take on the role of a hardened career criminal executing intense, dynamic heists in constant pursuit of the next “big score”
PAYDAY 3
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Crime Simulator.
Ranked #5 for Crime Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Crime Simulator.
PAYDAY 3 is the ultimate co-op FPS crime fantasy. Choose between stealth or loud playstyles, customize your character, and get ready to pull off the perfect heist.
Loot List: Thief Sim
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Crime Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Crime Simulator.
Rise from pauper to master thief - grab the loot list and get to work, whether it’s a roadside diner or a federal vault: slip past security and make fools of everyone, or unleash chaos and blow the place apart. Fence the haul to upgrade the hideout, gear up, and build your criminal empire.
Thief Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Crime Simulator.
Ranked #7 for Crime Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crime Simulator.
Become the best thief. Gather intel, steal things and sell them to buy hi-tech equipment. Do everything that a real thief does.
Thief Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Crime Simulator.
Ranked #8 for Crime Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crime Simulator.
The door to your robber’s career is waiting! Just crowbar the lock off and force your way through the threshold. Learn skills, collect tools and become a master of the thieving trade!
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Thief Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Crime Simulator.
Reviewers of Crime Simulator cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Crime Simulator.
Become the best thief. Gather intel, steal things and sell them to buy hi-tech equipment. Do everything that a real thief does.
Thief Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Crime Simulator.
Reviewers of Crime Simulator cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Crime Simulator.
The door to your robber’s career is waiting! Just crowbar the lock off and force your way through the threshold. Learn skills, collect tools and become a master of the thieving trade!
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Crime Simulator.
Reviewers of Crime Simulator cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Crime Simulator.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Prison Life 2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Crime Simulator.
Reviewers of Crime Simulator cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crime Simulator.
Play as a Prisoner or a Guard with up to 12 players(or alone) in an online prison game. Loot, Craft, and make your way to the exit, or investigate and arrest wanted players as a guard!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Shares wave based survival, co op multiplayer and a funny mood with Crime Simulator.
Reviewers of Crime Simulator cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Crime Simulator.
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.
Jailbreak
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Crime Simulator cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Crime Simulator.
An asymmetric PvP prison escape game for up to 8 players, where prisoners loot, craft, and scheme their way to freedom while the guard tries to shut the whole mess down. Work together, make bad decisions, and do whatever it takes to break out.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Crime Simulator at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Crime Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crime Simulator.
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 ~67% under Crime Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Crime Simulator.
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
Shares wave based survival, co op multiplayer and a funny mood with Crime Simulator.
Priced ~53% under Crime Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Action with Crime Simulator.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Crime Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Crime Simulator.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Crime Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Action with Crime Simulator.
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 ~58% under Crime Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crime Simulator.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Crime Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crime Simulator.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Crime Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crime Simulator.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Crime Simulator.
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. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crime Simulator.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crime Simulator.
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 Action and Indie with Crime Simulator.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Crime Simulator.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Crime Simulator.
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.).
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crime Simulator.
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 Crime Simulator
- Does Crime Simulator run on Steam Deck?
- Crime Simulator 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 Crime Simulator cost?
- Crime Simulator is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Crime Simulator have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Crime Simulator supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Crime Simulator?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crime Simulator are Crime Simulator: Playgrounds, Mafia Life Simulator, PAYDAY 2.
- Who developed Crime Simulator?
- Crime Simulator was developed by CookieDev and published by Ultimate Games S.A., PlayWay S.A..
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