Games like Crawl
If Crawl is your kind of game, the closest matches are Legend of Dungeon, Lost Castle / 失落城堡 and Rampage Knights — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its monster evolution system, tactical positioning matters and challenging. 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 →CRAWL is a competitive local multiplayer dungeon crawler developed by Powerhoof and released in 2017. The game supports up to four players in local co-op, with one player taking on the role of a hero navigating procedurally generated dungeons while the others control monster spirits trying to stop them. Players kill the hero to take their place and continue the race toward the final boss, creating an intense dynamic where success hinges on twitch-reflexes and tactical-positioning-matters. Players describe the experience as competitive and immersive, and it comes verified for Steam Deck play at $14.99. The game holds a 95% positive rating from 3896 Steam reviews.
About Crawl: Crawl is the local multiplayer dungeon crawler where your friends control the monsters! Battle through dungeons and power up your hero - if a friend kills you they take your place and it’s their turn to crawl. It's a race to gain enough XP and loot to take on the hulking final boss!
Players who liked Crawl also play
Steam players who put hours into Crawl 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.
Legend of Dungeon
WHY THIS
Top pick for Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crawl.
Legend of Dungeon is a randomly generated action RPG Beat'em'up with heavy Rogue-like elements, striking visuals, and dynamic music.
Lost Castle / 失落城堡
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crawl.
Second-strongest match for Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crawl.
Lost Castle is an action RPG beat'em up with roguelike elements and randomized dungeons for up to four players online and local!
Rampage Knights
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crawl.
Third-strongest match for Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crawl.
Rampage Knights is a cooperative beat 'em up game mixed up with randomized dungeon crawling and exploration, which you can play alone or with a friend online.
Death Road to Canada
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crawl.
Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!
Son of a Witch
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Crawl.
Ranked #5 for Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crawl.
Action roguelike for 1-4 players with cute graphics and deep game mechanics. Combine dozens of different weapons, magic items, potions and spells with unique effects to beat 8 enemy factions and 28 bosses. Can you find the ancient goblin artifact at the end of the dungeon?
Streets of Rogue
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Crawl.
Ranked #6 for Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crawl.
Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
Barony
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Crawl.
Ranked #7 for Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crawl.
Barony is the premier first-person roguelike with cooperative play! Adventure alone, or gather a party with iconic and unusual RPG classes to face off against the brutal dungeons. Test your resourcefulness, wits, and friendships, on your quest to lift the evil lich's curse!
Bravery and Greed
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crawl.
Ranked #8 for Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crawl.
Bravery and Greed is a beat 'em up, roguelite, dungeon brawler for up to four players. Choose from four classic fantasy classes, engage in a deep robust combat system, and play a variety of co-operative and competitive game modes with friends via local, online or both. Get rich, or die trying!
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Overcooked
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Crawl cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Crawl.
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.
Untitled Goose Game
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Crawl cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Crawl.
It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.
Sonic Mania
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Crawl cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Crawl.
Sonic Mania is an all-new adventure with Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles full of unique bosses, rolling 2D landscapes, and fun classic gameplay.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Crawl.
Reviewers of Crawl cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Crawl.
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!
Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crawl.
Reviewers of Crawl cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Crawl.
Shovel Knight is a sweeping classic action-adventure game with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and an 8-bit retro aesthetic. If you love games with perfect platforming, beautiful art, infectious music, lovable bosses, humor and levity, and real heart… Shovel Knight is for you!
Overcooked! 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Crawl cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Crawl.
Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons… it’s time to save the world again!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Crawl.
Reviewers of Crawl cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Crawl.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge reunites Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael as they kick shell in a beautifully realized beat ’em up.
Shovel Knight Dig
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Crawl.
Reviewers of Crawl cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Crawl.
Meet new friends and foes, visit strange lands, and outfit yourself in your quest to keep the entire land from collapsing underfoot! Jump, slash, and dig your way down an ever-changing chasm of mystery in Shovel Knight Dig, an all-new Shovel Knight adventure!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Crawl at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crawl.
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
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Crawl.
Priced ~67% under Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Crawl.
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 ~53% under Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Action with Crawl.
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 Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Crawl.
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 Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Action with Crawl.
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 Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crawl.
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 Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crawl.
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 Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crawl.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crawl.
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 Action with Crawl.
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. Shares Action and Indie with Crawl.
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 with Crawl.
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?
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 Crawl.
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 Crawl.
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.).
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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.
Death Road to Canada
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Crawl.
Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!
Son of a Witch
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Crawl.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Crawl.
Action roguelike for 1-4 players with cute graphics and deep game mechanics. Combine dozens of different weapons, magic items, potions and spells with unique effects to beat 8 enemy factions and 28 bosses. Can you find the ancient goblin artifact at the end of the dungeon?
Barony
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Crawl.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Crawl.
Barony is the premier first-person roguelike with cooperative play! Adventure alone, or gather a party with iconic and unusual RPG classes to face off against the brutal dungeons. Test your resourcefulness, wits, and friendships, on your quest to lift the evil lich's curse!
Frequently asked about Crawl
- Is Crawl verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Crawl 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 Crawl cost?
- Crawl is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Crawl have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Crawl supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Crawl?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crawl are Legend of Dungeon, Lost Castle / 失落城堡, Rampage Knights.
- Who developed Crawl?
- Crawl was developed by Powerhoof.
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 Crawl.
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