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Games like Pipeline Crawl

If Pipeline Crawl is your kind of game, the closest matches are Corcovado's Night Guard, Death Counter and Down the shaft — 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 Pipeline Crawl: Trapped inside a narrow pipeline, your only choices are to move forward or backward. Deadly obstacles stand in your way, and a single mistake means starting over. Can you escape?

2025ActionIndie0.99 USDWindowsby David Seco
Pipeline Crawl — Steam game cover

Players who liked Pipeline Crawl also play

Steam players who put hours into Pipeline Crawl 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.

  1. Corcovado's Night Guard

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Pipeline Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pipeline Crawl.

    You are Vicente, a night guard that works in Corcovado, taking care of this brazilian tourist spot, christ the redeemer. A first person, singleplayer, walk-simulator experience. Investigate what is happening and try to escape this nightmare.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Death Counter

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Pipeline Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pipeline Crawl.

    You're a cameraman, filming dead bodies and unseen horrors from the past, and instantly changing what the Death Counter watches in the future.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Down the shaft

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Pipeline Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pipeline Crawl.

    Down the Shaft is a first person horror game where you take on the duty to keep an Elder God forever contain within the cave. In order to do that, you must keep the machines that maim them active. But beware, their minions are on the loose and they won't let you do your job so easy.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  4. CHWÆST: A Creeping Parasite Horror

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Pipeline Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pipeline Crawl.

    A late-90s retro 3D horror where you feed the Biomass Core to escape. No keys. No doors.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure1.39 USDSteam ↗
  5. Scary Cave Diving

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Pipeline Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pipeline Crawl.

    Can you hold your breath when panic sets in? Experience the terror of deep-sea cave diving. Scavenge resources and fight to survive as you navigate procedurally generated underwater caves stalked by an apex predator!

    2026ActionIndieAdventure4.49 USDSteam ↗
  6. Urbex Night Security

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Pipeline Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Pipeline Crawl.

    Atmospheric slow-burn indie horror game. Walking simulator interspersed with various events, sometimes simple puzzles and a bit of running away.Student starts working as a security guard in the old abandoned factory that hides a dark secret.

    2023IndieEarly Access4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. METROLOGY

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Pipeline Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pipeline Crawl.

    METROLOGY is a First Person Horror set in the dark depths of the Underground Metro Transit System. Traverse endless tunnels while the horrors of the Underground haunt you. Uncover secrets, solve environmental puzzles and RUN. You do not want to be here. THEY do not want you here. Escape, if you can…

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  8. Those Who Crawl VR

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Pipeline Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pipeline Crawl.

    Crawl through tight cave tunnels and avoid monsters in this claustrophobic VR spelunking game. Escape inhuman monsters and deadly environments as the cave walls turn to flesh.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pipeline Crawl at current Steam store prices.

  1. UBERMOSH

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Pipeline Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pipeline Crawl.

    UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

    2015ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Miss Neko

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Pipeline Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Action with Pipeline Crawl.

    Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)

    2019ActionCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. QUICKERFLAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Pipeline Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pipeline Crawl.

    QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Save Jesus

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Pipeline Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pipeline Crawl.

    Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!

    2016IndieCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Barro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Pipeline Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pipeline Crawl.

    Choose your little car and race!

    2018IndieCasualRacing0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Gachi Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Pipeline Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pipeline Crawl.

    Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Trip to Vinelands

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Pipeline Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pipeline Crawl.

    Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.

    2016ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. TTV2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Pipeline Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pipeline Crawl.

    TTV2 is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame, sequel to Trip to Vinelands.

    2017ActionIndie0.49 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pipeline Crawl.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Pipeline Crawl.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pipeline Crawl.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pipeline Crawl.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pipeline Crawl.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 Pipeline Crawl.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Pipeline Crawl.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pipeline Crawl.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Pipeline Crawl

How much does Pipeline Crawl cost?
Pipeline Crawl is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Pipeline Crawl?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pipeline Crawl are Corcovado's Night Guard, Death Counter, Down the shaft.
Who developed Pipeline Crawl?
Pipeline Crawl was developed by David Seco and published by HeadArrow.

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 Pipeline Crawl.

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