Games like CRYPTARK
If CRYPTARK is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rush Rover, One Step From Eden and Kill to Collect — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bonus challenges incentivize replayability, atmospheric and challenging. 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 CRYPTARK: Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
Players who liked CRYPTARK also play
Steam players who put hours into CRYPTARK 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.
Rush Rover
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an intense mood with CRYPTARK.
Top pick for CRYPTARK fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.
Rush Rover is a 2D top-down shooter game. Compared to other similar games of the genre, the shooting experience is closer to traditional shoot'em up games. It includes random map generation, unique weapons, lots of different enemies, exciting boss battles and a dynamic chiptune soundtrack.
One Step From Eden
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with CRYPTARK.
Second-strongest match for CRYPTARK fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with CRYPTARK.
Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.
Kill to Collect
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with CRYPTARK.
Third-strongest match for CRYPTARK fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.
Welcome to the last city on Earth. Earn your keep and die trying in Pieces Interactive’s cyberpunk action rogue-like, featuring 1-4 player co-op. Travel down the sleepless cesspool of murderous vagrants and cybernetic freaks, as you slice and dice your way to the lower levels of Geoshelter Alpha.
I Hate Running Backwards
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with CRYPTARK.
Ranked #4 for CRYPTARK fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.
I Hate Running Backwards is a never-ending adrenaline packed shoot'em down roguelite that puts the emphasis on destruction and fighting never ending waves of enemies while time traveling through procedurally generated worlds!
Streets of Rogue
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with CRYPTARK.
Ranked #5 for CRYPTARK fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.
Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
NeuroVoider
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with CRYPTARK.
Ranked #6 for CRYPTARK fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.
NeuroVoider is a twin-stick shooter RPG set in a cyber futuristic world about brains shooting around evil robots with nuclear rocket launchers. Battle through the horde of vigilant robots, boost your character with the smoking remains of your victims, and defeat the master NeuroVoider.
Neon Chrome
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an intense mood with CRYPTARK.
Ranked #7 for CRYPTARK fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.
A masterful combination of top-down shooter and endless replayability with procedural levels. Blast your way through walls & enemies with guns and cybernetic abilities. Install perks from cyber chambers and upgrade your character stats after each death. Can you stop the Overseer?
Heat Signature
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with CRYPTARK.
Ranked #8 for CRYPTARK fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with CRYPTARK.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below CRYPTARK at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under CRYPTARK on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CRYPTARK.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under CRYPTARK on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under CRYPTARK on Steam right now. Shares Action with CRYPTARK.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under CRYPTARK on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under CRYPTARK on Steam right now. Shares Action with CRYPTARK.
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.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under CRYPTARK on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with CRYPTARK.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under CRYPTARK on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with CRYPTARK.
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 ~47% under CRYPTARK on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with CRYPTARK.
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...
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CRYPTARK.
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.
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 CRYPTARK.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CRYPTARK.
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?
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 CRYPTARK.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Alientrap
Other recommendable Steam games by Alientrap, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Wytchwood
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with CRYPTARK.
Another title from Alientrap, the studio behind CRYPTARK. Shares Indie and Adventure with CRYPTARK.
Wytchwood is a crafting adventure game set in a land of gothic fables and fairytales. As the old witch of the woods, explore a strange countryside, collect magic ingredients, brew sorcerous spells, and pass judgement upon a capricious cast of characters.
Apotheon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with CRYPTARK.
Another title from Alientrap, the studio behind CRYPTARK. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.
Apotheon is a heroic action game set within the vibrant world of Ancient Greek Mythology. Ascend Mount Olympus, wrestle the divine powers from the Pantheon of Gods, and save mankind.
Capsized
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with CRYPTARK.
Another title from Alientrap, the studio behind CRYPTARK. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.
Capsized is a fast paced 2D platformer focused on intense action and exploration. As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environment and fight off blood-thirsty creatures to save your crewmates and escape with your lives!
DuneCrawl
WHY THIS
Another title from Alientrap, the studio behind CRYPTARK. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.
DuneCrawl is an open world action-adventure game, where you take to the sandy seas atop a gigantic crustacean festooned with black powder cannons. Play as a solo Crab Keeper, or with a crew of up to three other friends in local and online coop.
Maximum Override
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with CRYPTARK.
Another title from Alientrap, the studio behind CRYPTARK. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.
Maximum Override is a chaotic city destruction game where the machines come alive. Wreak havoc in a fully destructible randomly generated city with anything you can find.
Autocraft
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with CRYPTARK.
Another title from Alientrap, the studio behind CRYPTARK. Shares Indie with CRYPTARK.
Create, Collect, and Crash in Autocraft, a physics destruction sandbox. Create your own cars, rockets, tanks, planes, boats, and more.
GUNHEAD
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation, resource management and an atmospheric mood with CRYPTARK.
Another title from Alientrap, the studio behind CRYPTARK. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.
Gunhead is a fast paced strategic roguelike FPS where you take the role of a pirate mech with a gun for a head, looting derelict spaceships filled with monstrous drones made out of bone and steel. Sequel to the 2d roguelite Cryptark.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
One Step From Eden
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with CRYPTARK.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with CRYPTARK.
Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.
Kill to Collect
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with CRYPTARK.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.
Welcome to the last city on Earth. Earn your keep and die trying in Pieces Interactive’s cyberpunk action rogue-like, featuring 1-4 player co-op. Travel down the sleepless cesspool of murderous vagrants and cybernetic freaks, as you slice and dice your way to the lower levels of Geoshelter Alpha.
I Hate Running Backwards
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with CRYPTARK.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.
I Hate Running Backwards is a never-ending adrenaline packed shoot'em down roguelite that puts the emphasis on destruction and fighting never ending waves of enemies while time traveling through procedurally generated worlds!
Frequently asked about CRYPTARK
- Is CRYPTARK verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — CRYPTARK 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 CRYPTARK cost?
- CRYPTARK is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does CRYPTARK have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — CRYPTARK supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to CRYPTARK?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CRYPTARK are Rush Rover, One Step From Eden, Kill to Collect.
- Who developed CRYPTARK?
- CRYPTARK was developed by Alientrap.
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 CRYPTARK.
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