Games like The Crooked Hand
If The Crooked Hand is your kind of game, the closest matches are Darkest Dungeon®, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord and FTL: Faster Than Light — 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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Steam players who put hours into The Crooked Hand 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.
Darkest Dungeon®
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Top pick for The Crooked Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Crooked Hand.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
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Second-strongest match for The Crooked Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Crooked Hand.
A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.
FTL: Faster Than Light
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Third-strongest match for The Crooked Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Crooked Hand.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Prison Architect
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Ranked #4 for The Crooked Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Crooked Hand.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Kenshi
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Ranked #5 for The Crooked Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Crooked Hand.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Braid
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Ranked #6 for The Crooked Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Crooked Hand.
This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.
Insurgency
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Ranked #7 for The Crooked Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Crooked Hand.
Take to the streets for intense close quarters combat, where a team's survival depends upon securing crucial strongholds and destroying enemy supply in this multiplayer and cooperative Source Engine based experience.
Divinity: Original Sin (Classic)
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Ranked #8 for The Crooked Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Crooked Hand.
Gather your party and get ready for a new, back-to-the-roots RPG adventure! Discuss your decisions with companions; fight foes in turn-based combat; explore an open world and interact with everything and everyone you see. Join up with a friend to play online in co-op and make your own adventures with the powerful RPG toolkit.
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 with The Crooked Hand.
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 The Crooked Hand.
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 with The Crooked Hand.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Crooked Hand.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 with The Crooked Hand.
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 The Crooked Hand.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Crooked Hand.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from chenjd
Other recommendable Steam games by chenjd, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Individual Investor Tycoon
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Another title from chenjd, the studio behind The Crooked Hand. Shares Indie with The Crooked Hand.
In Individual Investor Tycoon, you can simulate investing in stocks, real estate and bonds from the 90s. In the next 30 years, follow the market trend, make reasonable investment, let yourself out of the trap of the rat race, to achieve financial freedom.
妖怪俱乐部 Demon Club
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Another title from chenjd, the studio behind The Crooked Hand. Shares Indie with The Crooked Hand.
Realizing the dream of being a demon king in childhood "Demon Club" is a game based on chinese mythology. It is envisioned on an overhead continent called "ShenZhou". The player is a demon with no power.
Mini Transport
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Another title from chenjd, the studio behind The Crooked Hand. Shares Indie with The Crooked Hand.
In MiniTransport, players need to think about how to use wiring to build a complete industrial chain to achieve the goal of producing the final product.
Capital Simulator
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Another title from chenjd, the studio behind The Crooked Hand. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Crooked Hand.
A game that simulates the use of capital to build a complex industrial chain, stock investment and business challenges
Spaceship Simulator
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Another title from chenjd, the studio behind The Crooked Hand. Shares Indie with The Crooked Hand.
Design your own spacecraft with captured components in an unknown galaxy to defeat strange space creatures and finally escape from the galaxy.
War of Resistance
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Another title from chenjd, the studio behind The Crooked Hand. Shares Strategy with The Crooked Hand.
In this turn-based strategy game simulating the Second Sino-Japanese War, players will take on the role of the Communist forces, fighting against the Japanese army in the upcoming War of Resistance, and later, battling the Republic of China to win the Civil War.
Frequently asked about The Crooked Hand
- What games are most similar to The Crooked Hand?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Crooked Hand are Darkest Dungeon®, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, FTL: Faster Than Light.
- Who developed The Crooked Hand?
- The Crooked Hand was developed by chenjd.
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