Games like Lateral Crawl
If Lateral Crawl is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deadzoned, Rift Wizard 3 and Pathos — 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 Lateral Crawl: Set out on the search to find the last nightclub, or die trying in this Dada traditional roguelike meets infinite road trip.
Players who liked Lateral Crawl also play
Steam players who put hours into Lateral Crawl 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.
Deadzoned
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Top pick for Lateral Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Lateral Crawl.
Deadzoned is a sci-fi turn-based action Roguelike. Blast your way through zones battling the beasts, bandits, and monsters that stalk the blackouts. But you'll need your wits to make best use of the gear you stumble upon to survive and save the fate of the planet!
Rift Wizard 3
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Lateral Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lateral Crawl.
Rift Wizard is a hardcore combat strategy roguelike and wizard simulator featuring an extremely deep build system. Customize your Wizard with more than 500 spells and magical artifacts. Blast, summon, or enchant your way through 20 levels of pure turn based chaos.
Pathos
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Lateral Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Lateral Crawl.
Pathos is a turn-based fantasy adventure inspired by retro dungeon crawlers. Experience deep, emergent gameplay with modern graphics, sound and a touch-first interface. Extensively customise your character and embark on epic procedurally generated campaigns.
Ad Iterum
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Ranked #4 for Lateral Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lateral Crawl.
Ad Iterum is a turn-based top-down 2D roguelike set in a decaying, ever-shifting world. Flesh is fragile, but you can hack it. Enhance your body, embrace mutations, or form ancient blood pacts. Descend into the depths, scavenge what’s left of humanity, and crawl back...if you can. Kill. Die. Repeat.
Dungeon Sookuma
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Ranked #5 for Lateral Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lateral Crawl.
Combine 14 Sookuma lineages with 19 classes and descend into an ever-changing dream dungeon. Identify strange items, bargain with 19 gods, steal the Dream Core, and fight your way back out in a traditional turn-based roguelike.
Undermoon
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Ranked #6 for Lateral Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lateral Crawl.
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.
Absorber: Absorb Adapt Survive
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Ranked #7 for Lateral Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lateral Crawl.
Hijack enemy processes. Steal their kits. A tactical roguelike on a 7×7 grid where every enemy is carrying something you can take lifesteal, defense, entire ability kits. Build from 250+ programs. The system adapts to hunt you. Permadeath. No negotiations.
Aditore
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Ranked #8 for Lateral Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Lateral Crawl.
Command arcane alloy golems in a tactical mining roguelike. Deploy squads into corrupted zones, extract ores under quota pressure, and survive 3-day expeditions. Every deployment consumes a day. Meet the quota — or be terminated.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lateral Crawl.
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 Lateral Crawl.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lateral Crawl.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Lateral Crawl.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lateral Crawl.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lateral Crawl.
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.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lateral Crawl.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about Lateral Crawl
- What games are most similar to Lateral Crawl?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lateral Crawl are Deadzoned, Rift Wizard 3, Pathos.
- Who developed Lateral Crawl?
- Lateral Crawl was developed by Gideon X.
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 Lateral Crawl.
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