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Games like Crawling Angels

If Crawling Angels is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space Kettle, Alien Function and Odd Town — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and eerie. 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 Crawling Angels: Smash and thrash the mysterious Forever Chicken, a living ragdoll central to a frightful midnight carnival. Your Uncle Tontine assures "you can leave as soon as you desire" but despite their efforts no child has ever gone home... Will you be the first?

2026Indie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindowsby ItsTheTalia, Autumn West
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Steam players who put hours into Crawling Angels 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. Space Kettle

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Crawling Angels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Crawling Angels.

    Have you ever played a game as a Flying Kettle? No? It’s time to fix this. In this game, your main goal is to reach the top of the unyielding surreal mountain at any cost, going through the test of inevitable falls, constant loss of progress, and deep frustration.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Alien Function

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Crawling Angels.

    Second-strongest match for Crawling Angels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    A suspenseful surreal comedy in the depths of space. Typhil and his companions set out to unravel the many mysteries of this enigmatic starship, facing aliens, killer robots, and more on a quest for the truth about their mission, and their lives.

    2021Adventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Odd Town

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Crawling Angels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Crawling Angels.

    Odd Town is a retro-styled first-person adventure about being stuck in a town where everything feels just a little wrong. Explore a handcrafted, bite-sized open world, meet suspicious locals, take odd jobs, steal sandwiches, dodge cops, and uncover a conspiracy hidden under the pixels.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. The Baby In Yellow

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling, hidden collectibles, psychological and an atmospheric mood with Crawling Angels.

    Ranked #4 for Crawling Angels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Crawling Angels.

    You've got a new babysitting job, and things are taking a turn for the weird. Feed him, read him a bedtime story, and try not to fall into his dreams. How long can you stay in control?

    2023IndieAdventureSimulation8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The American Dream

    WHY THIS

    Shares an unsettling mood with Crawling Angels.

    Ranked #5 for Crawling Angels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Crawling Angels.

    Look down the barrel of a future where all your everyday needs are solved with guns.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. SHUT IN

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental interaction and an unsettling mood with Crawling Angels.

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

    SHUT IN is a dark comedy/psychological horror adventure game which explores depression and isolation by trapping you inside your own house. Explore a hostile home, solve puzzles, and withstand sarcasm from a rude and unreliable narrator. Idiot.

    2020IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Afterparty

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Crawling Angels.

    Ranked #7 for Crawling Angels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Crawling Angels.

    In Afterparty, you are Milo and Lola, recently deceased best buds who suddenly find themselves staring down an eternity in Hell. But there's a loophole: outdrink Satan and he'll grant you re-entry to Earth.

    2020IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Four Last Things

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Crawling Angels.

    Ranked #8 for Crawling Angels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Crawling Angels.

    Four Last Things is a very silly pythonesque adventure made from Renaissance-era paintings and public domain recordings of classical music. It is about sin, and the Four Last Things – Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell – and strives to be intelligent and ridiculous in equal measures.

    2017IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Crawling Angels

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. The Binding of Isaac

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Crawling Angels.

    Reviewers of Crawling Angels cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Crawling Angels.

    Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Little Inferno

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Crawling Angels.

    Reviewers of Crawling Angels cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Crawling Angels.

    Throw your toys into your fire, and play with them as they burn. An adventure that takes place almost entirely in front of a fireplace - about looking up up up out of the chimney, and the cold world just on the other side of the wall. From the creators of World of Goo and Human Resource Machine.

    2012IndieAdventureCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Brutal Orchestra

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Crawling Angels.

    Reviewers of Crawling Angels cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Crawling Angels.

    Brutal Orchestra is a Turn-Based Roguelike Strategy Game. You died, someone killed you. You are in Purgatory and you will never escape. Make a deal with the "demon" Bosch and set off into Purgatory finding ​all manner of demented friends and foes on your quest to get petty revenge.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Crawling Angels on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crawling Angels.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Crawling Angels on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crawling Angels.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Crawling Angels on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crawling Angels.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Crawling Angels on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crawling Angels.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Crawling Angels.

    Priced ~90% under Crawling Angels on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crawling Angels.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Crawling Angels on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crawling Angels.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Crawling Angels on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crawling Angels.

    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.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Your Only Move Is HUSTLE

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Crawling Angels on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crawling Angels.

    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.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

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

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

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

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It

    WHY THIS

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

    USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.

    2025IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Control, I'm Not Coming Back

    WHY THIS

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

    Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Crawling Angels

Is Crawling Angels verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Crawling Angels 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 Crawling Angels cost?
Crawling Angels is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Crawling Angels?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crawling Angels are Space Kettle, Alien Function, Odd Town.
Who developed Crawling Angels?
Crawling Angels was developed by ItsTheTalia, Autumn West and published by 2 Left Thumbs.

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 Crawling Angels.

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