Games like Space Grunts: Chrono Shard
If Space Grunts: Chrono Shard is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mystical Tactics, Crownbreakers and Gunlocked 2 — 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 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.

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Mystical Tactics
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Top pick 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.
Crownbreakers
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Second-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.
Gunlocked 2
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Third-strongest match for Space Grunts: Chrono Shard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.
Movement is your weapon. A sci-fi action roguelike and shmup combined, in Gunlocked 2 you'll pilot and upgrade a state-of-the-art warship against endless waves of deadly aliens. Deep customization, branching paths, and tons of unlockables offer endless replayability!
Seoul Exorcist 1111
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Ranked #4 for Space Grunts: Chrono Shard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.
Think Fast, Strike Faster! As the ultimate exorcist, choose your attacks wisely, upgrade combat deck, combine traits and items, and save the cursed souls—before death finds you.
Forever RPG
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Ranked #5 for Space Grunts: Chrono Shard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.
Embark on a new adventure on every playthrough. Find equipment, meet all sorts of NPCs and battle your way through a short 10 chapter randomised story. A casual retro roguelite RPG you can play forever!
Face The Gauntlet
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Ranked #6 for Space Grunts: Chrono Shard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.
Fight your way through the colosseum and ascend its ranks in Face The Gauntlet, a turn-based action RPG. Spend points to take actions, or save them for when you parry your opponent and interrupt their turn. Weigh your options carefully and strike fiercely as one of five unique classes.
Tamespire
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Ranked #7 for Space Grunts: Chrono Shard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.
A cozy-dark creature-collection roguelite deckbuilder. Tame Spirelings, fuse their moves into a living deck, and climb a Spire that rebuilds itself every run. Evolve your team, master five clashing elements, and push your luck through endless Ascensions.
Warriors of the End
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Ranked #8 for Space Grunts: Chrono Shard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.
Warriors of the End is a fast-paced tower-defense horde-battler roguelike. Defend the Princess against enemy hordes by strategically positioning and upgrading your towers, customize unique characters with deadly weapons and spells, discover mindblowing synergies and create game-breaking builds!
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Grimm's Hollow
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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.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.
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Magic Archery
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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.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts: Chrono Shard.
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Disfigure
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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!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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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.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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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.
Tails Noir: Prologue
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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.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Orangepixel, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Gunslugs 2
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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.
Heroes of Loot
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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!
Space Grunts
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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!
Gunslugs
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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!
Heroes of Loot 2
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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.
Ashworld
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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.
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?
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!
Frequently asked about Space Grunts: Chrono Shard
- 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 Mystical Tactics, Crownbreakers, Gunlocked 2.
- Who developed Space Grunts: Chrono Shard?
- Space Grunts: Chrono Shard was developed by Orangepixel and published by HandyGames.
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