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Games like Crossing Souls

If Crossing Souls is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hotline Miami, UFO 50 and UnMetal — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its story driven narrative, variety of character abilities and atmospheric. 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 Crossing Souls: California, 1986: A group of friends discover a mysterious pink stone that allows travel between two realms. This gang will live the summer of their lives in an adventure that will get them involved in a government conspiracy. Control five kids with special skills while fighting and solving puzzles.

2018ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableMetacritic 70Windows · macOS · Linuxby Fourattic
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Steam players who put hours into Crossing Souls 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. Hotline Miami

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Crossing Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crossing Souls.

    Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.

    2012ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. UFO 50

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Crossing Souls.

    Second-strongest match for Crossing Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crossing Souls.

    UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. UnMetal

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with Crossing Souls.

    Third-strongest match for Crossing Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crossing Souls.

    UnMetal is a 2D stealth action-adventure that pays homage to the classics with a healthy dose of humor and satire. You play as Jesse Fox, who is definitely NOT an elite commando, under arrest for a crime he didn't commit, and must escape a covert military base using his wits and fists.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

    WHY THIS

    Shares character switching with Crossing Souls.

    Ranked #4 for Crossing Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crossing Souls.

    Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the brutal conclusion to the Hotline Miami saga, set against a backdrop of escalating violence and retribution over spilled blood in the original game.

    2015ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Thimbleweed Park™

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Crossing Souls.

    Ranked #5 for Crossing Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crossing Souls.

    In Thimbleweed Park, a dead body is the least of your problems. Switch between five playable characters to uncover the surreal secrets of this strange town in a modern mystery adventure game from the creators of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets.

    2017IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Retro City Rampage™ DX

    WHY THIS

    Shares top down exploration and a nostalgic mood with Crossing Souls.

    Ranked #6 for Crossing Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crossing Souls.

    OPEN-WORLD carjacking goes back to the '80s in this 8-BIT nostalgic throwback. Run missions! Outrun the law! Rampage the city with weapons, power-ups and vehicles!

    2014ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The friends of Ringo Ishikawa

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Crossing Souls.

    Ranked #7 for Crossing Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crossing Souls.

    A highschool gang leader Ringo Ishikawa trying to live through his last autumn before graduation. With his best friends.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Horace

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Crossing Souls.

    Ranked #8 for Crossing Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crossing Souls.

    "The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!

    2019ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Crossing Souls

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. Stranger Things 3: The Game

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Crossing Souls.

    Reviewers of Crossing Souls cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Crossing Souls.

    Stranger Things 3: The Game is the official companion game to Season 3 of the hit original series! Play through familiar events from the series while also uncovering never-before-seen quests, character interactions, and secrets!

    2019ActionAdventureDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Stranger Things VR

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Crossing Souls cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Crossing Souls.

    Experience the world of Stranger Things from the never-before-seen perspective of Vecna as he explores unknown realities, forms the hive mind, and enacts his plan for revenge against Eleven and Hawkins.

    2024ActionAdventure24.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Recess

    WHY THIS

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

    A chaotic multiplayer party game where childhood playground games turn into all-out competition. Tag, hide, chase, and outplay your friends across imaginative maps all before the bell rings.

    2026SportsCasualSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Crossing Souls on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crossing Souls.

    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 ~67% under Crossing Souls on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Crossing Souls.

    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. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Crossing Souls on Steam right now. Shares Action with Crossing Souls.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Crossing Souls on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Crossing Souls.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Crossing Souls on Steam right now. Shares Action with Crossing Souls.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Crossing Souls on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crossing Souls.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Crossing Souls on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crossing Souls.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Crossing Souls on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crossing Souls.

    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 ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crossing Souls.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Crossing Souls.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crossing Souls.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crossing Souls.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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 Crossing Souls.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

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

  1. Hotline Miami

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Crossing Souls.

    Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.

    2012ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. UFO 50

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Crossing Souls.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Crossing Souls.

    UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. UnMetal

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with Crossing Souls.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Crossing Souls.

    UnMetal is a 2D stealth action-adventure that pays homage to the classics with a healthy dose of humor and satire. You play as Jesse Fox, who is definitely NOT an elite commando, under arrest for a crime he didn't commit, and must escape a covert military base using his wits and fists.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

    WHY THIS

    Shares character switching with Crossing Souls.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Crossing Souls.

    Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the brutal conclusion to the Hotline Miami saga, set against a backdrop of escalating violence and retribution over spilled blood in the original game.

    2015ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Thimbleweed Park™

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Crossing Souls.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crossing Souls.

    In Thimbleweed Park, a dead body is the least of your problems. Switch between five playable characters to uncover the surreal secrets of this strange town in a modern mystery adventure game from the creators of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets.

    2017IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Retro City Rampage™ DX

    WHY THIS

    Shares top down exploration and a nostalgic mood with Crossing Souls.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Crossing Souls.

    OPEN-WORLD carjacking goes back to the '80s in this 8-BIT nostalgic throwback. Run missions! Outrun the law! Rampage the city with weapons, power-ups and vehicles!

    2014ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Horace

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Crossing Souls.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Crossing Souls.

    "The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!

    2019ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Crossing Souls

Does Crossing Souls run on Steam Deck?
Crossing Souls 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 Crossing Souls cost?
Crossing Souls is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Crossing Souls?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crossing Souls are Hotline Miami, UFO 50, UnMetal.
Who developed Crossing Souls?
Crossing Souls was developed by Fourattic and published by Devolver Digital.

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 Crossing Souls.

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