Games like Critical Descent
If Critical Descent is your kind of game, the closest matches are First Parsec, Stellar Courier and Only One Burn — 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 Critical Descent: Master the hardcore, Starship-style catch maneuver in Critical Descent. Pilot massive boosters and agile upper stages across 75 handcrafted levels on Earth, the Moon, and Mars. Featuring global leaderboards, multiple difficulties, and a realistic physics system, for the ultimate landing experience.
Players who liked Critical Descent also play
Steam players who put hours into Critical Descent 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.
First Parsec
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Top pick for Critical Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Critical Descent.
Stellar Courier
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Second-strongest match for Critical Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Critical Descent.
Arcade space shooter. You are a courier with one package to deliver across a broken galaxy. Plane-like flight, fights with pirates, the old army and aliens in a 20+ mission story campaign. Pick your ship and mods between missions. No grind, no filler.
Only One Burn
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Third-strongest match for Critical Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Land the craft without crashing. Oh, and you only get one burn!
Ionic Drive
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Ranked #4 for Critical Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Plan your flight path, execute a perfect flip-and-burn manoeuvre and pray that your hull survives any impact in this space flight simulation/racing game. Can you avoid collision and finish your flight?
RacingSteam ↗A-Spec First Assault
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Ranked #5 for Critical Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Critical Descent.
Fly corvette-class warships. Engage in combat operations against fighters, frigates, cruisers, and more dangerous foes. Choose the ships, weapons, and improvement modules, your group will deploy with. Use tactical command decisions to overcome dangerous encounters with unrelenting enemies.
Mars Horizon
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Ranked #6 for Critical Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.
Final Orbit
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Ranked #7 for Critical Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Master the cockpit of highly realistic spacecraft in this Newtonian physics based sim. Take off from surface to space, plot a course between the planets and dock with space stations. Trade commodities or take shipping contracts to buy upgrades and optimize your build - every choice matters.
Beyond The Cupola: ISS Simulator
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Ranked #8 for Critical Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
You are the ISS crew, where the station's fate depends on everyone. Oxygen leaks, system failures, meteorite threats — repair with your own hands and make real-time decisions. Complete missions, perform spacewalks. Experience life in orbit: in space, nothing goes according to plan.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Critical Descent at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Critical Descent on Steam right now. Shares Action with Critical Descent.
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!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~55% under Critical Descent on Steam right now. Shares Action with Critical Descent.
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.
How to Fish
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Priced ~50% under Critical Descent on Steam right now. Shares Action with Critical Descent.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Critical Descent on Steam right now. Shares Action with Critical Descent.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Critical Descent on Steam right now. Shares Action with Critical Descent.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Critical Descent on Steam right now. Shares Action with Critical Descent.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under Critical Descent on Steam right now. Shares Action with Critical Descent.
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.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~90% under Critical Descent on Steam right now. Shares Action with Critical Descent.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Critical Descent.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Critical Descent.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Critical Descent.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Critical Descent.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
The Lab
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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!
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
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Frequently asked about Critical Descent
- How much does Critical Descent cost?
- Critical Descent is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Critical Descent?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Critical Descent are First Parsec, Stellar Courier, Only One Burn.
- Who developed Critical Descent?
- Critical Descent was developed by Endless Abyss Games.
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