Games like Close The Straits!
If Close The Straits! is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cyndefense 2, Symbiosis: Criticality and Time Vestige — 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.
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Players who liked Close The Straits! also play
Steam players who put hours into Close The Straits! 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.
Cyndefense 2
WHY THIS
Top pick for Close The Straits! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Close The Straits!.
Cyndefense 2 is a well crafted, hardcore, tower defense game. While there are easier modes for those who want casual game-play, the game will test your ability to manage your resources and rely on superb tower placement in order to be capable of beating harder maps.
Symbiosis: Criticality
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Close The Straits! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Close The Straits!.
It starts as a black screen and one thing to click. Break the core, sweep what spills, spend the spill on machinery that breaks the core for you. Drones, node meshes, coupling beams, tesla banks — watch a machine build itself across the void until the screen is a web of light you barely hold.
Time Vestige
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Close The Straits! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Close The Straits!.
Collect resources, craft armaments then sell for some coins. Set in medieval fantasy world where you play the role as a merchant selling armaments for adventurers or warriors alike. As long as coin is involved, it's nothing more than a business.
Apocalypticlick
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Close The Straits! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Close The Straits!.
The world ended. Somebody still has to sort the scrap. Found a settlement, gather resources, and try to keep the roof on while the wasteland keeps knocking. An idle survival builder with research, expeditions, events, raids, and consequences.
城市塔防-City Tower Defence
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Close The Straits! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Close The Straits!.
Help defend Shanghai from an invasion of snowmen! Build and upgrade towers across a battlefield that changes every run, shape your strategy with powerful cards and between-wave rewards, and survive escalating waves and boss encounters in this roguelite tower defense.
Not a Trolley Problem!
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Close The Straits! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Close The Straits!.
Pull the lever to start the trolley. Keep pulling to go faster. Throw people onto the rails to earn coins. Spend coins to expand your upgrade tree. Face absurd trolley dilemmas in this absurd-comedy incremental game.
Gnomed
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Close The Straits! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Close The Straits!.
Gnomed is a roguelite clicker base defence game where your humble home is the last line of defense. Hold out against 20 chaotic waves of enemies, unlock new abilities, and grow stronger each run!
Santa's Hitlist CEO Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Close The Straits! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Close The Straits!.
Santa's Hitlist: CEO Edition is a single-player, top-down shooter rogue-lite game where you play as Santa, avenging average workers by taking down their CEOs. Armed with a vast arsenal of weapons, you'll face off against epic bosses from the business world in your quest for justice.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Close The Straits! at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Close The Straits! on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Close The Straits!.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Close The Straits! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Close The Straits!.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Close The Straits! on Steam right now. Shares Action with Close The Straits!.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Close The Straits! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Close The Straits!.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Close The Straits! on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Close The Straits!.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Close The Straits! on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Close The Straits!.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Close The Straits! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Close The Straits!.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Close The Straits! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Close The Straits!.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Close The Straits!.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Close The Straits!.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Close The Straits!.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Close The Straits!.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Close The Straits!.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Close The Straits!.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Close The Straits!.
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.
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Frequently asked about Close The Straits!
- How much does Close The Straits! cost?
- Close The Straits! is listed on Steam at 10.00 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Close The Straits!?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Close The Straits! are Cyndefense 2, Symbiosis: Criticality, Time Vestige.
- Who developed Close The Straits!?
- Close The Straits! was developed by Soupbowl Entertainment.
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