Games like Crashlands
If Crashlands is your kind of game, the closest matches are Crashlands 2, Satisfactory and No Man's Sky — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, comedic and funny. 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 →Crashlands is a 2016 action-adventure RPG from indie studio Butterscotch Shenanigans set in an open world where players collect materials, craft equipment, build bases, and engage in combat-dodging encounters. The single-player experience emphasizes crafting-forward progression with open-world exploration across a medium-length campaign priced at $14.99 USD. Reviewers highlight that combat remains simple and readable throughout, while base-building becomes its own endgame for many players. Players describe the tone as comedic, funny, and whimsical, with humor and references frequently praised. The game holds an 87% positive rating from 1596 Steam reviews and runs verified on Steam Deck.
About Crashlands: Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Players who liked Crashlands also play
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Crashlands 2
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Crashlands.
Top pick for Crashlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crashlands.
Slap your way across a vibrant world where interstellar friendships are the key to your survival. Befriend eccentric aliens, craft bizarre weaponry, and stick it to the man in this sequel to the award-winning Action RPG Crashlands.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Crashlands.
Second-strongest match for Crashlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crashlands.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Crashlands.
Third-strongest match for Crashlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Crashlands.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Enshrouded
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Crashlands.
Ranked #4 for Crashlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crashlands.
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Rust
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Crashlands.
Ranked #5 for Crashlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crashlands.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Crashlands.
Ranked #6 for Crashlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crashlands.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Crashlands.
Ranked #7 for Crashlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crashlands.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
ARK: Survival Evolved
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crashlands.
Ranked #8 for Crashlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crashlands.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Crashlands
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Minecraft Legends
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a whimsical mood with Crashlands.
Reviewers of Crashlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Crashlands.
Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crashlands.
Reviewers of Crashlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Crashlands.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Don't Starve
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Crashlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crashlands.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
NEO: The World Ends with You
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Crashlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Crashlands.
"Only the possibility of you can change our fate" Rindo comes to the grim realization that his life is on the line when he is forced to compete in the so-called "Reapers' Game."
Battleheart Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Crashlands.
Reviewers of Crashlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Crashlands.
The classic mobile RPG, now available on Steam! In Battleheart Legacy, you will explore a rich and detailed fantasy world, customize your unique hero with dozens of powerful skills and items, do battle with hordes of enemies, encounter quirky characters and discover the stories of a troubled realm.
Junk Jack
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Crashlands.
Reviewers of Crashlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Crashlands.
Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!
Wayward Souls
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crashlands.
Reviewers of Crashlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Crashlands.
Wayward Souls is a randomly generated action-RPG with a heavy focus on story. Play as seven different heroes, all with their own sets of abilities. Fight through steadily greater hordes of enemies.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Crashlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Crashlands.
You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Crashlands at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Crashlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crashlands.
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 Crashlands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Crashlands.
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 Crashlands on Steam right now. Shares Action with Crashlands.
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 Crashlands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Crashlands.
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 Crashlands on Steam right now. Shares Action with Crashlands.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Crashlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crashlands.
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 Crashlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crashlands.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Crashlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crashlands.
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.
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 Crashlands.
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 Crashlands.
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 Crashlands.
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 Crashlands.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crashlands.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crashlands.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Crashlands.
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
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Crashlands 2
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Crashlands.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Crashlands.
Slap your way across a vibrant world where interstellar friendships are the key to your survival. Befriend eccentric aliens, craft bizarre weaponry, and stick it to the man in this sequel to the award-winning Action RPG Crashlands.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Crashlands.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Crashlands.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Crashlands.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Crashlands.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Crashlands.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Crashlands.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Crashlands.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Crashlands.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
ARK: Survival Evolved
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crashlands.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Crashlands.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Frequently asked about Crashlands
- Is Crashlands verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Crashlands 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 Crashlands cost?
- Crashlands is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Crashlands have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Crashlands supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Crashlands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crashlands are Crashlands 2, Satisfactory, No Man's Sky.
- Who developed Crashlands?
- Crashlands was developed by Butterscotch Shenanigans.
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