Games like Chest Buster
If Chest Buster is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bills Must Be Paid, Path of Idle: Old Gods Rising and Incremental Wars — 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 Chest Buster: An incremental battle game where destroying treasure chests instantly brings item effects into battle to fight enemies. Break all the seals on the Abyss Chest and liberate the great being who will save the world!
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Bills Must Be Paid
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Top pick for Chest Buster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chest Buster.
You're broke, smash piggy banks, bills must be paid. A short active incremental game. Get money, upgrade, and get debt free!
Path of Idle: Old Gods Rising
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Second-strongest match for Chest Buster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chest Buster.
A Lovecraftian idle RPG with auto-battles, loot farming, chests, team strategy, town building, gear crafting, Runewords, stages, towers, realms, and seasons. Serve the Old Gods, build your town, corrupt the chosen, and fight for their awakening!
Incremental Wars
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Third-strongest match for Chest Buster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Chest Buster.
A short incremental game where you battle enemies with a four-person party while collecting loot. Over roughly four hours of gameplay, you’ll unlock a variety of new skills, defeat enemies, and explore different locations in this RPG-style idle game.
Screen Survivors
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Ranked #4 for Chest Buster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Chest Buster.
An idle survivor-like that sits in the corner of your screen.
Skeleseller
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Ranked #5 for Chest Buster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chest Buster.
You're a skeleton shopkeep who hires adventurers to collect loot for you after your untimely demise. Send adventurers into battle, sell what they find, and build up your town in this laid-back idle game!
Agrivore: Incremental Farming
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Ranked #6 for Chest Buster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Chest Buster.
🥕🥔🌽👑 Feed the King! Agrivore is an incremental farming idle game where you equip magical farming gear, harvest crops, unlock new equipment, and create hyper combos in your skill tree. Harvest the most crops to feed them to your gluttonous King.
Thousand Floors
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Ranked #7 for Chest Buster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chest Buster.
Tower Climbers carry amber light; allies follow through misty pagodas in an endless Eastern tower. Thousands Floors blends side-view pixel art with hands-off combat—summon, upgrade, and let them climb. Grow via allies, floor lockdown, and relics.
Fantasy Idle Dungeon
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Ranked #8 for Chest Buster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chest Buster.
In Fantasy Idle Dungeon, hatch and capture rare Jenin, awaken their legendary skills and talents, and experience the joy of leveling up, evolving, and fusing them. Freely customize your gear, assemble an unbeatable adventure team, and claim glorious victories with effortless idle gameplay!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chest Buster at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~77% under Chest Buster on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chest Buster.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~53% under Chest Buster on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chest Buster.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~65% under Chest Buster on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chest Buster.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~77% under Chest Buster on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Chest Buster.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~53% under Chest Buster on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chest Buster.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~77% under Chest Buster on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Chest Buster.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~77% under Chest Buster on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Chest Buster.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~53% under Chest Buster on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chest Buster.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Chest Buster.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chest Buster.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chest Buster.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chest Buster.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chest Buster.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Chest Buster.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chest Buster.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Chest Buster.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Chest Buster
- Does Chest Buster run on Steam Deck?
- Chest Buster is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Chest Buster cost?
- Chest Buster is listed on Steam at 4.24 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Chest Buster?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chest Buster are Bills Must Be Paid, Path of Idle: Old Gods Rising, Incremental Wars.
- Who developed Chest Buster?
- Chest Buster was developed by D-Pad.
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