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Games like Crowntakers

If Crowntakers is your kind of game, the closest matches are MASSIVE CHALICE, Mordheim: City of the Damned and Dungeon Rushers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and lighthearted. 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.

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About Crowntakers: Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.

2014StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDMetacritic 70Windows · macOS · Linuxby Bulwark Studios
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Steam players who put hours into Crowntakers 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.

  1. MASSIVE CHALICE

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Crowntakers.

    Top pick for Crowntakers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crowntakers.

    MASSIVE CHALICE is a tactical strategy game set on an epic timeline from Double Fine Productions. As the Immortal Ruler of the nation, you'll take command of its heroes, forge heroic marriages to strengthen your Bloodlines, and battle a mysterious enemy known as the Cadence in a 300 year war.

    2015StrategyIndie19.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Mordheim: City of the Damned

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Crowntakers.

    Second-strongest match for Crowntakers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Crowntakers.

    Mordheim: City of the Damned is the first video game adaptation of Games Workshop's cult classic tabletop game Mordheim. Set in the Warhammer World's decimated Empire city, Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based tactical game where you lead warbands into bloody and lethal skirmishes.

    2015StrategyRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Dungeon Rushers

    WHY THIS

    Shares a lighthearted mood with Crowntakers.

    Third-strongest match for Crowntakers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crowntakers.

    A Heroic-Parody tactical RPG combining dungeon crawler’s gameplay and turn-based fights. Dive in an off-beat universe, manage your team and craft mighty gear to equip them! Build your own dungeon by hiding traps and monsters in your galleries, then challenge other players to clean it!

    2016StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blackguards 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Crowntakers.

    Ranked #4 for Crowntakers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crowntakers.

    Blackguards 2 is a turn-based strategy-RPG and will deliver challenging hexfield battles and a gritty story filled with violence and crime. - Includes bonus content: Soundtrack, digital Art Book and Strategy Guide Book!

    2015StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. LONESTAR

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Crowntakers.

    Ranked #5 for Crowntakers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crowntakers.

    LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Last Spell

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Crowntakers.

    Ranked #6 for Crowntakers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crowntakers.

    Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Into the Breach

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Crowntakers.

    Ranked #7 for Crowntakers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crowntakers.

    Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Rogue Waters

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Crowntakers.

    Ranked #8 for Crowntakers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Crowntakers.

    Rogue Waters is a Pirate Tactical Turn-Based Rogue-lite. Play as Captain Cutter, commanding your ship and crew through procedurally generated encounters to seek revenge. Recruit, train, and upgrade crew, use powerful sea creatures, and engage in dynamic naval and melee combat to gain the upper hand.

    2024ActionStrategyAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Crowntakers

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Heroes of Might & Magic V

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Crowntakers.

    Reviewers of Crowntakers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Crowntakers.

    Witness the amazing evolution of the genre-defining strategy game as it becomes a next-generation phenomenon, melding classic deep fantasy with next-generation visuals and gameplay. In the renowned Might & Magic universe, demon swarms spread chaos over the land in a relentless assault.

    2008Strategy9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Crowntakers cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear.  A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.

    2013Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. XCOM® 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Crowntakers.

    Reviewers of Crowntakers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Crowntakers.

    XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.

    2016Strategy2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Crowntakers at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Crowntakers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crowntakers.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Crowntakers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Crowntakers.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Crowntakers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crowntakers.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Crowntakers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crowntakers.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Crowntakers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crowntakers.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Crowntakers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Crowntakers.

    Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Crowntakers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crowntakers.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Crowntakers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Crowntakers.

    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.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Crowntakers.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Crowntakers.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Crowntakers.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crowntakers.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  5. Moonring

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Crowntakers.

    A dark-fantasy, turn-based, retro-fusion of classic turn-based RPGs and roguelikes, all presented with a unique neon aesthetic.

    2023RPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Die in the Dungeon: Origins

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crowntakers.

    Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!

    2023StrategyIndieRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Crowntakers.

    Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Secrets of the Soul

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Crowntakers.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."

    2023IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

More from Bulwark Studios

Other recommendable Steam games by Bulwark Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. IXION

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with Crowntakers.

    Another title from Bulwark Studios, the studio behind Crowntakers. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crowntakers.

    IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Crowntakers.

    Another title from Bulwark Studios, the studio behind Crowntakers. Shares Strategy with Crowntakers.

    MECHANICUS II ANNOUNCED! Take control of one of the most technologically advanced factions in the Imperium: the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this turn-based tactical game, your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the conflict. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?

    2018Strategy29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Crowntakers.

    Another title from Bulwark Studios, the studio behind Crowntakers. Shares Strategy and RPG with Crowntakers.

    Fast-paced tactical combat meets strategic management in this sequel to the acclaimed Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus. Take control of either the ancient and deathless Necron legions or the techno-religious acolytes of the Omnissiah, with the fate of a world in your hands.

    2026ActionStrategyRPG35.99 USDSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Mordheim: City of the Damned

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Crowntakers.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Crowntakers.

    Mordheim: City of the Damned is the first video game adaptation of Games Workshop's cult classic tabletop game Mordheim. Set in the Warhammer World's decimated Empire city, Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based tactical game where you lead warbands into bloody and lethal skirmishes.

    2015StrategyRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. LONESTAR

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Crowntakers.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crowntakers.

    LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Last Spell

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Crowntakers.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crowntakers.

    Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Into the Breach

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Crowntakers.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crowntakers.

    Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Crowntakers

How much does Crowntakers cost?
Crowntakers is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Crowntakers?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crowntakers are MASSIVE CHALICE, Mordheim: City of the Damned, Dungeon Rushers.
Who developed Crowntakers?
Crowntakers was developed by Bulwark Studios and published by Kasedo Games.

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 Crowntakers.

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