Games like CrossCraze
If CrossCraze is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lazy Chess, The Chess Variants Club and Canvas - The Board Game — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its classic scrabble style gameplay, challenging and contemplative. 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 CrossCraze: A fun, modern twist on the classic crossword board game, designed for players who prefer the challenge of a computer opponent (you can also pass-and-play with a friend on the same PC). Play in English or 8 other languages.
Players who liked CrossCraze also play
Steam players who put hours into CrossCraze 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.
Lazy Chess
WHY THIS
Top pick for CrossCraze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with CrossCraze.
Lazy Chess is a new non-profit chess game that narrows your choices down to the best 2 possible moves per turn. The moves provided can always win the game, but how strong are your decisions? Fewer moves. More fun.
The Chess Variants Club
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with CrossCraze.
Second-strongest match for CrossCraze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with CrossCraze.
Play and discover 12 popular chess variants, improve your chess skills with hundreds of chess puzzles, or simply play regular chess with your friends - all in one package. This diverse collection includes several chess games and puzzles. All in a minimalist, beautifully designed virtual chess club.
Canvas - The Board Game
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for CrossCraze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with CrossCraze.
Create stunning paintings, layer cards strategically, and score ribbons in Canvas - a digital board game where art meets strategy. Choose and combine Art Cards to create beautiful paintings and enjoy a mix of artistic expression and tactical gameplay.
Ray Cheng Trivia Editor
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for CrossCraze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with CrossCraze.
Ray Cheng Trivia Editor: A "Family Feud"-style game for two teams. Type answers fast in categories like Bible, Geography, and customized ones. Customize questions, scores, and play your music. Fun, educational, and competitive. Ready to quiz?
pWordle
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for CrossCraze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with CrossCraze.
pWordle is a fun and challenging word puzzle game inspired by the popular game Wordle and is available in multiple languages. With a virtual keyboard, Word of the Day, and Freeplay mode, a jukebox, gallery, players can unlock images and earn Steam achievements while improving their vocabulary.
Chess Mega Bundle
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for CrossCraze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with CrossCraze.
Play hundreds of chess variants online or locally.
InfiniWordSlide
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for CrossCraze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with CrossCraze.
Inspired by the *tris family of games as well as the word search of the world, InfiniWordSlide gives you a score attack that will test your knowledge of the language, your ability to quickly react and reward good strategy. The controls are simple and the mechanics clear.
Amakta
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for CrossCraze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with CrossCraze.
A simultaneous turn based strategy board game. Outwit your oppenent, either a friend locally, a Steam friend online or the AI.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below CrossCraze at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under CrossCraze on Steam right now. Shares Casual with CrossCraze.
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.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under CrossCraze on Steam right now. Shares Casual with CrossCraze.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under CrossCraze on Steam right now. Shares Casual with CrossCraze.
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!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under CrossCraze on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with CrossCraze.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under CrossCraze on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with CrossCraze.
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 ~56% under CrossCraze on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with CrossCraze.
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 ~72% under CrossCraze on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with CrossCraze.
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 ~72% under CrossCraze on Steam right now. Shares Casual with CrossCraze.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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?
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with CrossCraze.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with CrossCraze.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with CrossCraze.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with CrossCraze.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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!
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Frequently asked about CrossCraze
- How much does CrossCraze cost?
- CrossCraze is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does CrossCraze have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — CrossCraze supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to CrossCraze?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CrossCraze are Lazy Chess, The Chess Variants Club, Canvas - The Board Game.
- Who developed CrossCraze?
- CrossCraze was developed by ORT Software.
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 CrossCraze.
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