Games like Crystal Rift
If Crystal Rift is your kind of game, the closest matches are Operencia: The Stolen Sun, KryptCrawler and MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Crystal Rift: A grid-based dungeon-crawler, in classic first person perspective.An experiential horror challenge game that takes the player through a series of increasingly mysterious locations. Comes with Full Dungeon Editor. Designed with full Virtual Reality support for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
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Steam players who put hours into Crystal Rift 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.
Operencia: The Stolen Sun
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crystal Rift.
Top pick for Crystal Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.
Operencia: The Stolen Sun embraces everything you love about classic first-person dungeon-crawlers, enhancing the old-school turn-based RPG experience with modern sensibilities. Guide a team of memorable characters through a world inspired by Central European mythology.
KryptCrawler
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Crystal Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Crystal Rift.
KryptCrawler brings classic first person, grid based Dungeon Crawler gameplay to your PC and VR. Descend into the unknown and explore the perilous depth of the sinister tombs and crypts you are thrown into, armed with nothing but a map and your wits.
MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crystal Rift.
Third-strongest match for Crystal Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.
MIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mindbending tale. Now also in Virtual Reality!
The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crystal Rift.
Ranked #4 for Crystal Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.
Embark on the sci-fi epic that started it all at the dawn of modern VR, setting standards for roomscale movement and interaction for years to come. Winner of over 30 awards including "VR Game of the Year", The Gallery is VR's premier adventure series.
Legend of Grimrock 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crystal Rift.
Ranked #5 for Crystal Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.
Legend of Grimrock 2 is a dungeon crawling role playing game with a modern execution but an oldschool heart. A group of four prisoners have shipwrecked on the secluded Isle of Nex. The island is filled with ancient crumbled ruins, mysterious shrines and a vast underground network of dungeons.
Narcosis
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crystal Rift.
Ranked #6 for Crystal Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.
Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.
Haunted Dungeons: Hyakki Castle
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Crystal Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Crystal Rift.
A Japanese "yokai" castle-maze adventure inspired by the real-time first person dungeon RPGs of the 1980s. Infiltrate the mysterious Hyakki Castle that appeared in a land of exiles as part of a secret anti-supernatural government group and defeat its master!
Half-Life: Alyx
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crystal Rift.
Ranked #8 for Crystal Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Crystal Rift.
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Crystal Rift
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Prince of Persia: Warrior Within™
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Crystal Rift cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Crystal Rift.
Enter the dark underworld of Prince of Persia Warrior Within, the sword-slashing sequel to the critically acclaimed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time™. Hunted by Dahaka, an immortal incarnation of Fate seeking divine retribution, the Prince embarks upon a path of both carnage and mystery to defy his preordained death.
Prince of Persia®
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crystal Rift.
Reviewers of Crystal Rift cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Crystal Rift.
The critically acclaimed Prince of Persia® franchise returns for the first time on next-generation platforms with an all-new epic journey. Built by the same award-winning Ubisoft Montreal studio that created Assassin's Creed™, Prince of Persia has been in development for over three years to deliver a whole new action-adventure gaming...
Legend of Grimrock
WHY THIS
Shares grid based movement and an atmospheric mood with Crystal Rift.
Reviewers of Crystal Rift cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.
Use the Dungeon Editor to build entirely new adventures and challenges for other players to solve.
Legend of Grimrock 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crystal Rift.
Reviewers of Crystal Rift cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.
Legend of Grimrock 2 is a dungeon crawling role playing game with a modern execution but an oldschool heart. A group of four prisoners have shipwrecked on the secluded Isle of Nex. The island is filled with ancient crumbled ruins, mysterious shrines and a vast underground network of dungeons.
Beholder
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crystal Rift.
Reviewers of Crystal Rift cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.
You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?
Oh, Dungeon Master
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Crystal Rift cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.
Oh, Dungeon Master is a dungeon simulator, with elements of a roguelike game. Explore the intricate underground mazes and dense forests to exterminate monsters and find all the pictures!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Crystal Rift at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Crystal Rift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crystal Rift.
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 ~50% under Crystal Rift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crystal Rift.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Crystal Rift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crystal Rift.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Crystal Rift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crystal Rift.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Crystal Rift on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Crystal Rift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crystal Rift.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Crystal Rift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crystal Rift.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Crystal Rift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crystal Rift.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 Crystal Rift.
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 Adventure with Crystal Rift.
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 Indie with Crystal Rift.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crystal Rift.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from Psytec Games Ltd
Other recommendable Steam games by Psytec Games Ltd, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Windlands
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crystal Rift.
Another title from Psytec Games Ltd, the studio behind Crystal Rift. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.
A first person grappling hook exploration game.Soar through the ruins of a fallen world and discover the secrets of the ancients. Designed with full Virtual Reality support for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, also works great in Non VR.
Windlands 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crystal Rift.
Another title from Psytec Games Ltd, the studio behind Crystal Rift. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crystal Rift.
Windlands 2 is a built-for-VR fantasy action adventure game, use grappling hooks and a bow to explore the vast mysterious world to take down gigantic titans alone or with friends.
Titan Isles
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Crystal Rift.
Another title from Psytec Games Ltd, the studio behind Crystal Rift. Shares Adventure with Crystal Rift.
Titan Isles is a high-mobility action-adventure shooter where you pilot four unique Exo Suits, each with its own combat style and movement mastery. Upgrade your abilities, battle colossal Titans across the Isles, and play solo or with up to three friends in seamless 4-player co-op.
Frequently asked about Crystal Rift
- How much does Crystal Rift cost?
- Crystal Rift is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Crystal Rift?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crystal Rift are Operencia: The Stolen Sun, KryptCrawler, MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition.
- Who developed Crystal Rift?
- Crystal Rift was developed by Psytec Games Ltd.
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