Games like Crystal Crisis
If Crystal Crisis is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cylinder: Puzzles Returned, Astroblocks and Tumblestone — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, funny and lighthearted. 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 Crisis: An all-star cast of heroes has gathered to test their mettle in this cute and chaotic new color-matching ONLINE combat game! Crystal Crisis is presented like a fighting game, but players attack by arranging falling crystals and clearing them from the screen. It’s the ultimate Online puzzle battle throwdown!
Players who liked Crystal Crisis also play
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Cylinder: Puzzles Returned
WHY THIS
Top pick for Crystal Crisis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Crystal Crisis.
Looking for a new spin on puzzle games?? Rotate your expectations and stack your high score in Cylinder!
Astroblocks
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Crystal Crisis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Crystal Crisis.
A competitive puzzle-arcade fighting game where you stack colored blocks and detonate them using matching bombs. Chain together devastating combos and dominate the leaderboards! Play through an intense single-player campaign, challenge your friends online, and fight your way to the top!
ActionSteam ↗Tumblestone
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crystal Crisis.
Third-strongest match for Crystal Crisis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Crystal Crisis.
Tumblestone is the first original action-puzzle game of the past fifteen years -- completely reinventing the genre into a deep and cerebral puzzle solving experience that you won't forget.
Scramble Star Crossing
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Crystal Crisis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Crystal Crisis.
Embark on a stellar action-puzzle adventure! Scramble Star Crossing is a competitive-puzzle game with a cast of wild characters, each with their own powers. Hone your skills as a Star Clearer single-player modes, or take the fight online with 2–4 player matches to become the star clearer champion!
Tetris® Effect: Connected
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Crystal Crisis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Crystal Crisis.
Tetris® Effect: Connected adds an all-new robust multiplayer expansion to the huge variety of addictive and innovative single-player modes that Tetris Effect is known for, with all-new co-op and competitive online and local multiplayer modes!
Puyo Puyo™Tetris®
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Crystal Crisis.
Ranked #6 for Crystal Crisis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Crystal Crisis.
Two puzzle game juggernauts collide as global phenomenon Tetris® and SEGA’s famous Puyo Puyo™ combine in a super mash-up of ferocious competition, adorable looks, and addictive puzzle fun!
TEKKEN 7
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Crystal Crisis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Crystal Crisis.
Discover the epic conclusion of the long-time clan warfare between members of the Mishima family. Powered by Unreal Engine 4, the legendary fighting game franchise fights back with stunning story-driven cinematic battles and intense duels that can be enjoyed with friends and rivals.
GUILTY GEAR Xrd -SIGN-
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Crystal Crisis.
Ranked #8 for Crystal Crisis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Crystal Crisis.
Kept you waitin'. GUILTY GEAR Xrd -SIGN- is finally here on Steam!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Crystal Crisis
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The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crystal Crisis.
Reviewers of Crystal Crisis cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Crystal Crisis.
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Puyo Puyo™Tetris®
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Crystal Crisis.
Reviewers of Crystal Crisis cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Casual with Crystal Crisis.
Two puzzle game juggernauts collide as global phenomenon Tetris® and SEGA’s famous Puyo Puyo™ combine in a super mash-up of ferocious competition, adorable looks, and addictive puzzle fun!
Pixel Puzzle Makeout League
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Crystal Crisis cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with Crystal Crisis.
Solve pixel puzzles, date superheroes, and save the day! Dating sim meets puzzle game in this romantic comedy adventure.
ANIME TETRIS
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Crystal Crisis cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with Crystal Crisis.
The legendary game "Tetris" in a unique performance and atmosphere
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Crystal Crisis at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Crystal Crisis on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Crystal Crisis.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Crystal Crisis on Steam right now. Shares Action with Crystal Crisis.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Crystal Crisis on Steam right now. Shares Action with Crystal Crisis.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Crystal Crisis on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Crystal Crisis.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Crystal Crisis on Steam right now. Shares Action with Crystal Crisis.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Crystal Crisis on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Crystal Crisis.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Crystal Crisis.
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.
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!
Peggle Extreme
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Crystal Crisis.
Peggle Extreme delivers fast-paced puzzle action that combines elements of pinball and pachinko to create a truly unique game experience. Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun, now exclusively themed with art and sounds from Half-Life: Episode 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2.
Wheelchair Wizards
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Casual with Crystal Crisis.
Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.
Wires And Whiskers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Crystal Crisis.
Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.
Crab Game
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Casual with Crystal Crisis.
Crab Game is a First-Person Multiplayer game where you play through several different minigames based on children's games, until only one player stands victorious.
Aimlabs
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Crystal Crisis.
Aimlabs is the aim trainer of choice for over 45 Million players, from beginners to esports pros. Our unique aim analysis optimizes your gameplay, targets your weaknesses & builds key skills for any FPS game! Time to warm up with our unlimited scenarios & rank up in-game!
Stumble Guys
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Crystal Crisis.
Ready for the chaos? Stumble Guys is a 32-player, fast-paced multiplayer party royale where players dash, jump, and fall across hilarious obstacle courses in a fun race to be the last one standing.
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More from Nicalis, Inc.
Other recommendable Steam games by Nicalis, Inc., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crystal Crisis.
Another title from Nicalis, Inc., the studio behind Crystal Crisis. Shares Action with Crystal Crisis.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
Cave Story+
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Crystal Crisis.
Another title from Nicalis, Inc., the studio behind Crystal Crisis. Shares Action with Crystal Crisis.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
Castle In The Darkness
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Crystal Crisis.
Another title from Nicalis, Inc., the studio behind Crystal Crisis. Shares Action with Crystal Crisis.
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
1001 Spikes
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Crystal Crisis.
Another title from Nicalis, Inc., the studio behind Crystal Crisis. Shares Action with Crystal Crisis.
Discover the lost treasures of Ukampa in South America as Aban Hawkins searches for his estranged father, world-famous archeaologist, Jim Hawkins. Aban Hawkins races into the frozen tundra of the antarctic, undiscovered temple ruins and the vast caverns of South America in search of his father and the legendary treasure rumored to lie...
NightSky
WHY THIS
Another title from Nicalis, Inc., the studio behind Crystal Crisis. Shares Casual with Crystal Crisis.
Nominated as a IGF Seamus McNally Finalist, NightSky is an ambient action-puzzle game that offers a gameplay experience unlike any other—cerebral challenges fill uniquely designed picturesque worlds. The player must maneuver a sphere by using realistic physics to advance; each of these worlds is broken into different areas.
Save me Mr Tako: Tasukete Tako-San
WHY THIS
Another title from Nicalis, Inc., the studio behind Crystal Crisis. Shares Action with Crystal Crisis.
A Blast From the Portable-Gaming Past! Mr Tako will solve puzzles, explore mysterious dungeons and fight tenacious bosses on his mission to end the war between the octopus kingdom and the human world. Will you help this brave octopus to spread his message of tolerance and unity?
Cave Story's Secret Santa
WHY THIS
Another title from Nicalis, Inc., the studio behind Crystal Crisis.
After Balrog recovers the Christmas presents that were stolen by Chaba, the cowardly Mimiga named Santa must sneak into every house and return the missing packages. Be the Mimiga Who Saves Christmas!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Cylinder: Puzzles Returned
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Casual with Crystal Crisis.
Looking for a new spin on puzzle games?? Rotate your expectations and stack your high score in Cylinder!
Tumblestone
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Crystal Crisis.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Casual with Crystal Crisis.
Tumblestone is the first original action-puzzle game of the past fifteen years -- completely reinventing the genre into a deep and cerebral puzzle solving experience that you won't forget.
Tetris® Effect: Connected
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Casual with Crystal Crisis.
Tetris® Effect: Connected adds an all-new robust multiplayer expansion to the huge variety of addictive and innovative single-player modes that Tetris Effect is known for, with all-new co-op and competitive online and local multiplayer modes!
GUILTY GEAR Xrd -SIGN-
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Crystal Crisis.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Crystal Crisis.
Kept you waitin'. GUILTY GEAR Xrd -SIGN- is finally here on Steam!
Frequently asked about Crystal Crisis
- Is Crystal Crisis verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Crystal Crisis 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 Crystal Crisis cost?
- Crystal Crisis is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Crystal Crisis have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Crystal Crisis supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Crystal Crisis?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crystal Crisis are Cylinder: Puzzles Returned, Astroblocks, Tumblestone.
- Who developed Crystal Crisis?
- Crystal Crisis was developed by Nicalis, Inc..
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