Games like Crying Suns
If Crying Suns is your kind of game, the closest matches are Corpoct, Heat Signature and FTL: Faster Than Light — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and atmospheric. 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 →Crying Suns is a 2019 strategy indie game developed and published by Alt Shift. Set in a mysteriously fallen empire, it offers real-time-with-pause combat with rogue-like progression and ship customization. Players command a space fleet through tactical encounters where positioning matters. Reviewers note the pixel art and theme prove captivating, creating atmospheric and emotionally engaging sessions. The game costs $24.99 USD and runs as playable on Steam Deck. It presents a challenging experience that reviewers describe as immersive, with each run uncovering more of the empire's story. The title holds an 85% positive rating from over 1900 Steam reviews, offering a medium-length solo adventure for strategy enthusiasts seeking narrative depth alongside tactical gameplay.
About Crying Suns: Crying Suns is a tactical rogue-lite that puts you in the role of a space fleet commander as you explore a mysteriously fallen empire. In this story rich experience inspired by Dune and Foundation, each successful run will uncover the truth about the Empire... and yourself as well.
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Steam players who put hours into Crying Suns 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.
Corpoct
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Top pick for Crying Suns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
Test your wits as well as your ability to lead an expedition in this deep space dungeon-crawler. Hire the best heroes and villains of the galaxy. Find unknown planets in uncharted space. Start small, plan big and get a fleet of warships capable enough to rival most fearsome enemies.
Heat Signature
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Second-strongest match for Crying Suns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
FTL: Faster Than Light
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Shares ship customization and an immersive mood with Crying Suns.
Third-strongest match for Crying Suns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
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.
Void War
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Shares ship customization and an atmospheric mood with Crying Suns.
Ranked #4 for Crying Suns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.
Steam Marines
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Crying Suns.
Ranked #5 for Crying Suns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
Steam Marines is a squad based Roguelike set on a steampunk spaceship. It features tactical play focused on positioning and careful use of resources. Built to keep you on your toes as you progress through the decks of your besieged ship while clearing enemies and trying to reach each level's elevator.
Invisible, Inc.
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Crying Suns.
Ranked #6 for Crying Suns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.
March of the Living
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Ranked #7 for Crying Suns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.
Battlevoid: Harbinger
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Ranked #8 for Crying Suns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
Battlevoid: Harbinger is a hard sci-fi space exploration game blending roguelike, turn-based, star map strategy, and real-time space battles. You are a young commander venturing out into enemy territories, to unknown galaxies, never knowing what you will face as you jump out from hyperspace.
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Mass Effect (2007)
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Shares an emotional mood with Crying Suns.
Reviewers of Crying Suns cross-mention this title as a similar play.
As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
FTL: Faster Than Light
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Shares ship customization and an immersive mood with Crying Suns.
Reviewers of Crying Suns cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
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.
Curious Expedition
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Crying Suns.
Reviewers of Crying Suns cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
Curious Expedition is a roguelike expedition simulation set in the late 19th century. Together with famous personalities you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never explored before for fame, science and treasures.
Shortest Trip to Earth
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Reviewers of Crying Suns cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Crying Suns at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~80% under Crying Suns on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crying Suns.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~60% under Crying Suns on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crying Suns.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~44% under Crying Suns on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Crying Suns.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
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Priced ~60% under Crying Suns on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crying Suns.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~80% under Crying Suns on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crying Suns.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
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Priced ~68% under Crying Suns on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crying Suns.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
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 Crying Suns.
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 Crying Suns.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crying Suns.
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 Crying Suns.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crying Suns.
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 with Crying Suns.
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 Crying Suns.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Frequently asked about Crying Suns
- Does Crying Suns run on Steam Deck?
- Crying Suns is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Crying Suns cost?
- Crying Suns is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Crying Suns?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crying Suns are Corpoct, Heat Signature, FTL: Faster Than Light.
- Who developed Crying Suns?
- Crying Suns was developed by Alt Shift.
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