Games like Critical Shift
If Critical Shift is your kind of game, the closest matches are Expeditions: Conquistador, Wasteland 3 and Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Critical Shift: In this tactical RPG, command a squad of operatives at a secret Antarctic research facility. Master positioning, manage weapons and resources, turn enemies against each other, explore diverse levels, and uncover the mystery beneath the ice in this intricate paranormal sci-fi thriller.
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Expeditions: Conquistador
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Top pick for Critical Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Critical Shift.
Conquer the New world: In the 16th Century, Spanish explorers and soldiers reached the shores of America. The search for gold, fame, and adventure drove these travelers into a treacherous wilderness where they faced hunger, disease, and dangerous predators. In their wake, the Aztec Empires lay in ruins.
Wasteland 3
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Second-strongest match for Critical Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Critical Shift.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
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Third-strongest match for Critical Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Critical Shift.
Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!
Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition
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Ranked #4 for Critical Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Critical Shift.
Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition is the capstone title in Harebrained Schemes' Shadowrun series - and now includes the all-new, 6+ hr Shadows of Hong Kong Bonus Campaign. Experience the most impressive Shadowrun RPG yet, hailed as one of the best cRPG / strategy games of 2015!
Hard West
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Ranked #5 for Critical Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Critical Shift.
When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions
Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs
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Ranked #6 for Critical Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Critical Shift.
Regalia: Of Men And Monarchs is a tactical RPG set in a cheerful fantasy world full of weirdness and wonder. Assemble your party, go adventuring, manage your kingdom, make new friends, and defeat your opponents in challenging turn-based combat.
Expeditions: Rome
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Ranked #7 for Critical Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Critical Shift.
Determine the destiny of Rome as you conquer foreign lands and navigate political intrigue in this turn-based RPG. Directly fight with your party of Praetorians, guide your legion to victory, and choose your own path in a story where every decision matters. How will you shape the future of Rome?
Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition
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Ranked #8 for Critical Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Critical Shift.
Gather your party and get ready for the kick-ass new version of GameSpot's PC Game of the Year 2014. With hours of new content, new game modes, full voiceovers, split-screen multiplayer, and thousands of improvements, there's never been a better time to explore the epic world of Rivellon!
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Critical Shift.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Critical Shift.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Critical Shift.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Critical Shift.
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.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Critical Shift.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Critical Shift.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
The Lab
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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 Critical Shift
- What games are most similar to Critical Shift?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Critical Shift are Expeditions: Conquistador, Wasteland 3, Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut.
- Who developed Critical Shift?
- Critical Shift was developed by Rhinotales.
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