Games like Crownrats
If Crownrats is your kind of game, the closest matches are MAPS (My Apocalyptic Plan for Survival), Diseased and Shades Of War — 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 Crownrats: Crownrats is a co-op colony RPG where mouse heroes explore locations, capture rooms, mine resources, build a home colony and resist rival warrens. Play solo with bots or together in quick tactical runs.
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MAPS (My Apocalyptic Plan for Survival)
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Top pick for Crownrats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crownrats.
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Diseased
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Second-strongest match for Crownrats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crownrats.
Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to widen borders and send your men to explore. Risk it all for vital resources, as surviving the relentless waves of the Diseased emerging from the dark will be harder than you think.
Shades Of War
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Third-strongest match for Crownrats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Crownrats.
A fast-paced mini-RTS where you spread your color across the map, build towns and defenses, forge (and betray) alliances, and battle up to 8 colonies at once. Expand, fortify, and dominate the grid in chaotic territory-control warfare.
Cube Kingdoms
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Ranked #4 for Crownrats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crownrats.
Build a medieval settlement in a fantasy world, manage economy and defense, and fight battles against goblins, undead, demons, and epic boss monsters in auto‑battle style.
Legacy of Defense
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Ranked #5 for Crownrats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crownrats.
Become the hero who protects the fantasy world and stop the monster invasion! 'Legacy of Defense' combines defense with deck-building. Build your deck, use powerful skills, gain experience, upgrade, clear stages, and defeat the final boss. Ready to test your strategy and luck?
Kingdom Eighties
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Ranked #6 for Crownrats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Crownrats.
Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!
Drill Core
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Ranked #7 for Crownrats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crownrats.
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
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Ranked #8 for Crownrats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Crownrats.
Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crownrats.
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crownrats.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crownrats.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crownrats.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crownrats.
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.
100 Asian Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crownrats.
🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
『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.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Legacy of Defense
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crownrats.
Become the hero who protects the fantasy world and stop the monster invasion! 'Legacy of Defense' combines defense with deck-building. Build your deck, use powerful skills, gain experience, upgrade, clear stages, and defeat the final boss. Ready to test your strategy and luck?
Kingdom Eighties
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Crownrats.
Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!
Drill Core
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crownrats.
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Frequently asked about Crownrats
- Does Crownrats have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Crownrats supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Crownrats?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crownrats are MAPS (My Apocalyptic Plan for Survival), Diseased, Shades Of War.
- Who developed Crownrats?
- Crownrats was developed by KineticFox, KettuLabs and published by KineticFox, KettuLabs.
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