Games like CiniCross
If CiniCross is your kind of game, the closest matches are SudoCrawler : Sudoku + Roguelike, Grim Path and 13 BONES — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and intense. 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 CiniCross: CiniCross is a dark fantasy roguelite where nonogram puzzles meet dungeon crawling. Solve increasingly complex puzzles, choose your path through a branching dungeon, and bend the rules using powerful artifacts. Each room is a puzzle. Each boss, a deadly challenge.
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Steam players who put hours into CiniCross 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.
SudoCrawler : Sudoku + Roguelike
WHY THIS
Top pick for CiniCross fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with CiniCross.
SudoCrawler is a game that combines Sudoku with Roguelite! If you are a lover of logic puzzles and are addicted to the "meat pigeon" fun of building genres and challenging the limits, hurry up and give it a try.
Grim Path
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for CiniCross fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with CiniCross.
A roguelike card crawler where every step is a choice. Descend into dark dungeons, battle monsters, and face various encounters. Choose your gear wisely to survive and go even deeper.
13 BONES
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for CiniCross fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with CiniCross.
A fast-paced card battler. Like BLACKJACK, but with added MONSTERS and VIOLENCE. Build your DECK and push your LUCK to earn your freedom !
Revive & Repeat
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for CiniCross fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with CiniCross.
Revive & Repeat is a card-based dungeon crawler roguelike where you combine modifiers and artifacts, build insane setups, fight powerful bosses, and compete with other players on the leaderboard — every death makes you stronger.
Rogue 'n' Roll: Dice of Fate
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for CiniCross fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with CiniCross.
A dark dice-based roguelike where every roll shapes your fate. Build powerful dice synergies, collect relics, and survive brutal turn-based battles in a world ruled by chance.
Rogues & Fate
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for CiniCross fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with CiniCross.
A fast-paced two-hero inventory management roguelike. Assemble your inventory and crush bizarre creatures. Break the game with thousands of insane builds to defeat the Fate King in this RPG auto battler.
Loop Dungeon - Incremental
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for CiniCross fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with CiniCross.
Lead a party of heroes through endless dungeon loops. Gather loot, unlock permanent upgrades, and build powerful synergies as you push deeper into an ever-growing incremental adventure.
Submarine Homesick Blues
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for CiniCross fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with CiniCross.
A real-time submarine management and survival game with tactical pause, where you manage crew, systems, and resources under constant pressure.
Reviewers mention these as similar to CiniCross
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Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with CiniCross.
Reviewers of CiniCross cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with CiniCross.
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!
Pictopix
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with CiniCross.
Reviewers of CiniCross cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with CiniCross.
Pictopix is a puzzle game where you use logic to color squares on grids in order to reveal pictures.
Picross Fairytale - nonogram: Red Riding Hood secret
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with CiniCross.
Reviewers of CiniCross cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with CiniCross.
200 biggest nonograms! Discover the magical world of Red Riding Hood!
Picross.io
WHY THIS
Reviewers of CiniCross cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with CiniCross.
Picross is a picture logic puzzles game also known as Nonograms.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares roguelike progression, meta progression and an intense mood with CiniCross.
Reviewers of CiniCross cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with CiniCross.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below CiniCross at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under CiniCross on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with CiniCross.
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
Shares a challenging mood with CiniCross.
Priced ~58% under CiniCross on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with CiniCross.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under CiniCross on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with CiniCross.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under CiniCross on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with CiniCross.
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 ~58% under CiniCross on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with CiniCross.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under CiniCross on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CiniCross.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under CiniCross on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with CiniCross.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under CiniCross on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CiniCross.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with CiniCross.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with CiniCross.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CiniCross.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with CiniCross.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CiniCross.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with CiniCross.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CiniCross.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CiniCross.
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.
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Frequently asked about CiniCross
- Is CiniCross verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — CiniCross 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 CiniCross cost?
- CiniCross is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to CiniCross?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CiniCross are SudoCrawler : Sudoku + Roguelike, Grim Path, 13 BONES.
- Who developed CiniCross?
- CiniCross was developed by Hydrobates.
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