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Games like Control Craft 3

If Control Craft 3 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Control Craft 2, MechDefender - Tower Defense and Defenders Guild — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and intense. 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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About Control Craft 3: Control Craft 3 is a fast paced RTS which brings together quick thinking and clever tactics for some veritable planet conquering action!

2016ActionStrategyIndieAdventureSimulationCasual0.99 USDWindows · macOSby Cristian Manolachi, Atomic Fabrik
Control Craft 3 — Steam game cover
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Capturing generators spawns your unitsCompact maps keep battles fast pacedNew maps play differently than previous entriesChallengingContemplativeIntense

Players who liked Control Craft 3 also play

Steam players who put hours into Control Craft 3 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.

  1. Control Craft 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Control Craft 3.

    Top pick for Control Craft 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Control Craft 3.

    Control Craft 2 is a real time strategy game where you will have to act quickly against attackers who want to invade our planet! Wave after wave, your soldiers will overthrow the enemy colonies and will occupy enemy bases one after another.

    2016ActionStrategyIndie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. MechDefender - Tower Defense

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Control Craft 3.

    Second-strongest match for Control Craft 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Control Craft 3.

    MechDefender is an innovative fusion of two gaming genres - seamlessly blending the intense action of a top-down shooter with the strategic depth of tower defense.

    2020ActionSportsStrategy0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Defenders Guild

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Control Craft 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Control Craft 3.

    Defenders Guild is a classic tower defense game. Create different strategies for each map, choose a team of adventurers that best fit your playstyle. Leave them free or assign each one priority enemies.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie3.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Antivirus Girl

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Control Craft 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Control Craft 3.

    Antivirus Girl is a defense shooter where you play as an inspector for the advanced antivirus "Sentinel." Protect computers by scanning incoming network files—allow safe ones to pass and instantly destroy malware. Can you survive the ever-evolving digital threats?

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  5. Little Kingdom RTS

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Control Craft 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Control Craft 3.

    Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie1.24 USDSteam ↗
  6. Iron Frontier

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Control Craft 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Control Craft 3.

    Iron Frontier is a single-player tower defense rogue-lite with the spirit of classic RTS. Draft a fresh army from random units and boost them with powerful synergies. Defend your base, crush the enemy, and make hard moral choices that shape the campaign and dictate the war's outcome.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  7. The Slush Force

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Control Craft 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Control Craft 3.

    Aliens have invaded, and you are at the epicenter. Engage in methodical, turn-based strategy blended with high-intensity real-time tactical combat. In this relentless war, combined arms tactics are essential for victory. Defend the world and outsmart the extraterrestrial threat!

    2023ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Choomby

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Control Craft 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Control Craft 3.

    CHOOMBY - an online game of bees vs. spider! One powerful player hunts, while the others must unite to survive and strike back. Enjoy diverse maps and modes: infection tag, trap-filled mazes, football, elimination mini-games, and base capture (PvP / PvPvE).

    ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Control Craft 3

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Risk

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Control Craft 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Casual with Control Craft 3.

    Draft! Attack! Fortify! Play the original game of strategy and world domination — now for your PC. Enjoy the classic look and fun of RISK in an exciting new interactive experience. Play two ways as you strategize over the map and set out to conquer the world.

    2013StrategyCasualSteam ↗
  2. Mushroom Wars

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Control Craft 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Control Craft 3.

    Mushroom Wars is a dynamic real-time strategy game, where smart strategy meets furious action in epic PvP and PvE battles.

    2016ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Control Craft 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Control Craft 3.

    Reviewers of Control Craft 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Control Craft 3.

    Control Craft 2 is a real time strategy game where you will have to act quickly against attackers who want to invade our planet! Wave after wave, your soldiers will overthrow the enemy colonies and will occupy enemy bases one after another.

    2016ActionStrategyIndie0.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Control Craft 3 at current Steam store prices.

  1. UBERMOSH

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Control Craft 3 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Control Craft 3.

    UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

    2015ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Miss Neko

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Control Craft 3 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Control Craft 3.

    Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)

    2019ActionCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. QUICKERFLAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Control Craft 3 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Control Craft 3.

    QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Save Jesus

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Control Craft 3 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Control Craft 3.

    Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!

    2016IndieCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Barro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Control Craft 3 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Control Craft 3.

    Choose your little car and race!

    2018IndieCasualRacing0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Gachi Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Control Craft 3 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Control Craft 3.

    Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Trip to Vinelands

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Control Craft 3 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Control Craft 3.

    Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.

    2016ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. TTV2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Control Craft 3 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Control Craft 3.

    TTV2 is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame, sequel to Trip to Vinelands.

    2017ActionIndie0.49 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Control Craft 3.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Control Craft 3.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Control Craft 3.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  4. A Date with Death

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Control Craft 3.

    Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Control Craft 3.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Control Craft 3.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Control Craft 3.

    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.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Control Craft 3.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Control Craft 3

How much does Control Craft 3 cost?
Control Craft 3 is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Control Craft 3?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Control Craft 3 are Control Craft 2, MechDefender - Tower Defense, Defenders Guild.
Who developed Control Craft 3?
Control Craft 3 was developed by Cristian Manolachi, Atomic Fabrik and published by Conglomerate 5.

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