IMHO.

Games like Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator

If Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stellar Freight: Endless Horizon, Crop Dead and Hero Chest — 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.

Get personalized picks →

About Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator: Crack, mine, and sell mystical crystals while fighting alien hordes on various planets in this fast-paced incremental mining extraction roguelite hybrid experience. Earn currency to spend across upgrade categories with permanent progression and powerful builds in runs.

2026ActionStrategyIndieAdventureSimulationCasualWindows · Linuxby Aligned Games
Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator — Steam game cover

Players who liked Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator also play

Steam players who put hours into Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator 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. Stellar Freight: Endless Horizon

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator.

    Embark on a Sci-fi Roguelike Turn-based RPG with Tactical combat. Become a Captain of a freight ship, deliver cargo through deep space, manage your crew, upgrade your ship, fight space warships, and build your reputation. Every day brings a new adventure. Space shows no mercy.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Crop Dead

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator.

    You aren’t quite dead yet, but you're slipping. Play as a ghost defending your own comatose body from endless hordes of ravenous enemies. Plant magical crops, harvest bizarre weapons, and cultivate an automated defense of undead flora to survive the tower and complete your resurrection ritual!

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Hero Chest

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator.

    In a role reversal in Hero Chest, take control of a chest tired of being looted and frighten the heroes back to their guilds! Create your way with the cards, ally with the monsters, save the chests and earn gold Have fun with the perfect combination of Roguelike, Dungeon Crawler and Card Game!

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. ULTRA MEGA DRILL

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator.

    Buy geodes, crack their weak points, find rare crystals and artifacts, and build an automated processing line in this 2D incremental game.

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  5. The Subminer

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator.

    An atmospheric underwater drilling roguelite beneath the icy crust of Enceladus. Pilot your submarine, explore the depths, mine resources through procedural caves and upgrade your base. Each dive is darker and more dangerous, and you must face the terrors lurking in the shadows. Live. Dive. Repeat.

    2026ActionIndieSteam ↗
  6. Wall World 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator.

    The adventure in the mysterious world of the Wall continues! Pilot your robospider into its depths, uncover lost artifacts and technologies, upgrade your exosuit and spider, and battle the horrors lurking in the dark. Unravel the mysteries buried in the depths of the Wall!

    2025ActionStrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. thimble dungeon

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator.

    a tiny auto-battler roguelite. you pick the path, your heroes do the dying. bank their souls, delve again.

    2026StrategyAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  8. DROSS

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator.

    DROSS is a procedurally Generated FPS, set in a derelict facility infested with alien bugs. Explore, collect powerful weapons and equipment, to upgrade your gear and fight the Dross.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. 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 Harvest: Apex Operator.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator.

    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 ↗
  4. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Disfigure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator.

    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!

    2023ActionIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗

More from Aligned Games

Other recommendable Steam games by Aligned Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Grunt1914

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Aligned Games, the studio behind Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator. Shares Action and Strategy with Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator.

    Grunt1914 is a World War 1 multiplayer shooter set in various spectacular stages across the war torn arenas of history! Being based on the conflicts between the Allies and the Central Powers in a battle hardened world, there will be blood - come sun, rain or snow in darkness or light!

    2019ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Crazy Critters - Combat Cats

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Aligned Games, the studio behind Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator.

    Run, jump, scratch and fight to be the purrrfect combat cat! Choose from a variety of different characters each with its own unique ability and skills. Shoot weapons and throw grenades at all those that dare to stand in your way! Fight in the craziest, silliest and most random arenas ever!

    2020ActionIndieMassively MultiplayerFreeSteam ↗
  3. Death Rattle - Hell Unleashed

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Aligned Games, the studio behind Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator.

    A first person shooter set in a medieval world ravaged by the ungodly forces of the hellion. You are the Death Rattle - humanity's last hope against the forces of hell. Use your special gifts and divine powers to challenge the marches of hell and turn the tide against these devils and demons.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Operator8

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Aligned Games, the studio behind Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator.

    An unparalleled alien invasion has overwhelmed the Mining Block Facility on the moon Triton, leaving only death and horror in its wake. You are a mercenary known as Operator8 and you alone have been called in to bring a stop to this fierce attack. Destroy the hive mind at all costs!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Spooky Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Aligned Games, the studio behind Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator. Shares Action and Indie with Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator.

    Spooky Survivors puts you in the shoes of Van Hobo, a quirky hero battling the supernatural! Start with all unlocks BUT choose which to level up as you face endless waves. Equip powerful gear and unlock unique abilities. Outlast the nightmare and prove yourself as the ultimate spooky survivor!

    2025ActionIndieCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Just Keep Defending And Mining

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Aligned Games, the studio behind Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator. Shares Indie and Casual with Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator.

    Just Keep Defending And Mining is a unique incremental game that combines combat and resource gathering. Balance mining and survival, invest into upgrades, grow stronger every round, unlock new regions, and Just Keep Defending and Mining.

    2026IndieCasualSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator

What games are most similar to Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator are Stellar Freight: Endless Horizon, Crop Dead, Hero Chest.
Who developed Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator?
Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator was developed by Aligned Games.

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 Crystal Harvest: Apex Operator.

For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.