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Games like Space Grunts: Chrono Shard

If Space Grunts: Chrono Shard is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tic Card Toe, Westner Hero 8 and Crownbreakers — 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.

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About Space Grunts: Chrono Shard: Master time. Stop the Ooze. Outsmart a galactic infection in this high-speed, turn-based roguelike. Use your Chrono Shard to loop the timeline, leaving gear and upgrades for your future self. Craft your arsenal, evolve your skills into elite sub-classes, and turn every death into an advantage.

2026ActionStrategyIndieRPG15.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindows · macOS · Linuxby Orangepixel
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  1. Tic Card Toe

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Space Grunts: Chrono Shard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    A Turn Based Strategy Roguelike with Deckbuilding elements that transforms Tic-Tac-Toe into a High-Stakes Combat Tournament!

    2027StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  2. Westner Hero 8

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Space Grunts: Chrono Shard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    Westner Hero 8 is a pixel-art card roguelike set in the Wild West. Collect cards, strengthen your character, and combine two cards into a more powerful one. Build your own strategy, face increasingly dangerous enemies, and survive ever-changing adventures.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. Crownbreakers

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Space Grunts: Chrono Shard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    Tyrants keep the magical city of Cascade in a chokehold. They grow fat by grinding everyone else's soul into profit. ✊ENOUGH! Crash into their districts and build your deck as you push forward. Use your champions and cards to pummel some demonic billionaires in this turn-based card-game brawler.

    StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  4. Mystical Tactics

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Space Grunts: Chrono Shard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    Mystical Tactics is a turn-based tactical-RPG roguelike in which you control a squad of adventurers in a mystical world. Train your heroes in fast-paced tactical battles, equip them with powerful items and lead them to repel the Dark Lord and his legions.

    2026StrategyRPGSteam ↗
  5. Wasteroad

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Space Grunts: Chrono Shard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    Turn-based tactical roguelite vehicle combat game, travel along a desert, defend your squad from hordes of raiders, upgrade your vehicles, die, and try again. Bring peace to the wasteland.

    ActionStrategyRacingSteam ↗
  6. Munchy Lair

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Space Grunts: Chrono Shard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    Munchy Lair is a 2D strategy game fusing turn-based snake combat with roguelite tower climbing. Plan WASD paths, preview enemy moves, then resolve. Kill snakes by collision, grab items, buy buffs, advance floor by floor within a turn limit. Endless mode unlocks after three boss layers.

    2027StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  7. Ironwrought

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Space Grunts: Chrono Shard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    Push them off the ledge. Pull them into the fire. Ironwrought is a 1-4 player tactics RPG built on Draw Steel, where forced movement is as powerful as any strike. Play standalone encounters or full roguelike runs solo or in online or LAN co-op, then build your own encounters.

    StrategyRPGEarly AccessSteam ↗
  8. The Severed Gods

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Space Grunts: Chrono Shard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    A fantasy roguelite RPG where heroes reincarnate to stop the mystic dragon Umbra. Master turn-based combat, sever giant bosses, and shape your Karma through a journey filled with relics and evolving NPC interactions.

    2026StrategyIndieEarly Access13.50 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Space Grunts: Chrono Shard at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Space Grunts: Chrono Shard on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    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 ~69% under Space Grunts: Chrono Shard on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    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 ~56% under Space Grunts: Chrono Shard on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    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 ~50% under Space Grunts: Chrono Shard on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    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 ~72% under Space Grunts: Chrono Shard on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    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. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Space Grunts: Chrono Shard on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~61% under Space Grunts: Chrono Shard on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    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 ↗
  8. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Space Grunts: Chrono Shard on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    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 ↗

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 Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    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. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    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 ↗
  4. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeSteam ↗
  5. Disfigure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!

    2023ActionIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.

    2021IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Tails Noir: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Orangepixel

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

  1. Gunslugs 2

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Orangepixel, the studio behind Space Grunts: Chrono Shard. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    The Black Duck Army is back—bigger, badder, and armed with alien tech! In Gunslugs 2, chaos reigns as you blast through tanks, choppers, giant robots, and hordes of relentless minions. This action-packed, over-the-top run-and-gun adventure is a wild tribute to classic 80s and 90s action movies.

    2015ActionIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Heroes of Loot

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Orangepixel, the studio behind Space Grunts: Chrono Shard. Shares Action and RPG with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    A brutal mix between dungeon-crawler and shoot-em up. The dungeon will learn from you and become more dangerous every time you play!

    2015ActionAdventureRPG4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Space Grunts

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Orangepixel, the studio behind Space Grunts: Chrono Shard. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    A turn-based game on a planet outpost - with no waiting between turns! Play it at the speed of an arcade game, or take your time and think about your next step.. no matter how fast you take your turn, it might be your last!

    2016ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Gunslugs

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Orangepixel, the studio behind Space Grunts: Chrono Shard. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    Lock and load for chaotic, fast-paced action in Gunslugs! Battle the evil Black Duck Army across wild, procedurally generated levels packed with explosions, jetpacks, chicken guns, and rogue-like permadeath. Unlock heroes, conquer bizarre worlds, and fight your way to the gates of Hell!

    2015ActionIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Heroes of Loot 2

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Orangepixel, the studio behind Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    Control multiple heroes at once in this dungeon-crawling action adventure RPG, a mix of classic 80's Gauntlet-action and quests.

    2016Adventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Ashworld

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Orangepixel, the studio behind Space Grunts: Chrono Shard. Shares Action with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    Fight, scavenge, and survive in Ashworld, a post-apocalyptic open world filled with danger. Explore the desolate Ragelands, battle ruthless Ragers, and fend off night-stalking Skellies. Drive, craft, and strategize to endure this unforgiving wasteland where every resource matters.

    2017ActionAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Meganoid

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Orangepixel, the studio behind Space Grunts: Chrono Shard. Shares Action with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    Meganoid is a brutal, fast-paced platformer where every descent into its ever-shifting spaceship is a new challenge. Navigate deadly traps, outsmart security drones, and discover powerful upgrades to reshape how you play. Will you rush to survive, or risk it all to uncover its deepest secrets?

    2017Action3.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Gunslugs : Rogue Tactics

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Orangepixel, the studio behind Space Grunts: Chrono Shard. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.

    Grab your bandana and get ready for Gunslugs : Rogue Tactics! Sneak, shoot, and explode your way through ever-changing enemy strongholds in this rogue-lite stealth-action mashup. Go full-on Commando or channel your inner Snake—just make it out alive. No mission ever plays the same twice!

    2019ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Space Grunts: Chrono Shard

Is Space Grunts: Chrono Shard verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Space Grunts: Chrono Shard 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 Space Grunts: Chrono Shard cost?
Space Grunts: Chrono Shard is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Space Grunts: Chrono Shard?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Space Grunts: Chrono Shard are Tic Card Toe, Westner Hero 8, Crownbreakers.
Who developed Space Grunts: Chrono Shard?
Space Grunts: Chrono Shard was developed by Orangepixel and published by HandyGames, THQ Nordic Mobile.

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