Games like Crawlbound
If Crawlbound is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ascension: The Infinite Descent, DepthLoot and DICEBONE — 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 Crawlbound: Survive a grid-based roguelite by selecting game altering bugs to endure each level. Dodge traps, battle bosses, and draft upgrades to build your run. Spend your loot on permanent upgrades to push deeper into the dungeon.
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Ascension: The Infinite Descent
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Top pick for Crawlbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crawlbound.
Descend into the abyss, navigate the dungeon, collect cards for your custom loadout, and fight monsters in turn-based combat. Death is only the beginning—use Rebirth to gain permanent attributes that scale everything you do, and dive back in to try again.
DepthLoot
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Second-strongest match for Crawlbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crawlbound.
DepthLoot is a compact dungeon extraction about greed, risk, and a backpack that’s always too small. Descend into the ruins, light up the darkness, loot treasures, battle enemies, and make it out alive - or everything you’ve found will be left behind in the depths.
DICEBONE
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Third-strongest match for Crawlbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crawlbound.
One die falls. It breeds. Its children breed. The bone-tree they grow is the dungeon, and you are standing in it. Rob the marrow and run. The Dicemaster tells you what he's about to break, and he lies. "AH AH AH."
The Severed Gods
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Ranked #4 for Crawlbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crawlbound.
A fantasy roguelite RPG where heroes reincarnate to stop the mystic dragon Umbra. Master turn-based combat, sever giant bosses, and shape your Karma through a journey filled with relics and evolving NPC interactions.
Fairy's Hero
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Ranked #5 for Crawlbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crawlbound.
Fairy's Hero is an auto-battler game with rogue-lite elements and incremental meta progression. While your hero is fighting enemies, you manage their inventory, skill tree, assist in boss fights, and collect rewards. Take your Hero on a quest across the kingdom, to fulfill their purpose!
Lootbound
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Ranked #6 for Crawlbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crawlbound.
Lootbound is a tactical roguelite with turn-based combat, loot management and D&D elements set in a dark fantasy world. Fight dangerous enemies, collect epic loot, recruit allies and lead them on a path of adventure.
Undermoon
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Ranked #7 for Crawlbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crawlbound.
UnderMoon is a dark fantasy turn-based tactical roguelike RPG. Awaken in a strange moonlit town, build your hero, and climb a shifting tower. Read enemy intent, combine weapons, magic, summons, and elemental reactions, defeat deadly bosses, and uncover why everyone was brought to this world.
Loot Dungeon
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Ranked #8 for Crawlbound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crawlbound.
"Loot Dungeon" is a dark fantasy incremental roguelite ARPG where death is progression. Crawl deadly dungeons, collect loot, pick perks, and die... to get stronger. Go deeper, unlock new characters, upgrades and features. Will you make a deal with Death?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Crawlbound.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Crawlbound.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crawlbound.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crawlbound.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Crawlbound.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crawlbound.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Crawlbound.
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Frequently asked about Crawlbound
- What games are most similar to Crawlbound?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crawlbound are Ascension: The Infinite Descent, DepthLoot, DICEBONE.
- Who developed Crawlbound?
- Crawlbound was developed by Veih.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Crawlbound.
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