Games like Crawl
Closest overall match: Moon Hunters (★ 3.4). Highest rated: Nuclear Throne at ★ 4.0. Quickest to finish: Darkwood at about 2 hours.
Looking for something like Crawl? Our model ranked 12 games by how much they share with it. What ties them together most: Roguelike, role-playing and controller support. Updated Oct 16, 2026.
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63%
1. Moon Hunters
Shares 4 Player Local, overlay, Roguelike, Action RPG and role-playing and 9 more tags; rated 0.4 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 62
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 50%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG, Indie
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63%
2. Crypt of the NecroDancer
Shares Dungeon Crawler, Roguelite, controller support, Roguelike and role-playing and 10 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 87
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 29%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG, Indie
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62%
3. Streets of Rogue
Shares Roguelite, Roguelike, role-playing, Early Access and Local Multiplayer and 7 more tags.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 43%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG, Indie
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61%
4. Hammerwatch
Shares 4 Player Local, Dungeon Crawler, Roguelike, role-playing and Local Multiplayer and 8 more tags; rated 0.4 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 72
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 37%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG, Indie
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59%
5. Victor Vran
Shares overlay, Dungeon Crawler, controller support, Action RPG and Fantasy and 6 more tags; rated 0.4 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 50%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG, Indie
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58%
6. Mother Russia Bleeds
Shares 4 Player Local, controller support, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen and Pixel Graphics and 9 more tags; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 70
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 67%
- Shared genres
- 4, 11, Indie
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58%
7. Risk of Rain
Shares overlay, Roguelite, controller support, Roguelike and Split Screen and 7 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 48%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie
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58%
8. Salt and Sanctuary
Shares Action RPG, role-playing, Split Screen, Horror and cooperative and 5 more tags; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 53%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG, Indie
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58%
9. Hand of Fate
Shares Dungeon Crawler, Roguelite, controller support, Roguelike and Action RPG and 6 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 50%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG, Indie
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58%
10. Nuclear Throne
Shares Roguelite, Roguelike, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen and Pixel Graphics and 6 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 40%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG, Indie
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58%
11. Darkwood
Shares Lovecraftian, Roguelike, role-playing, Early Access and Horror and 6 more tags.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 42%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG, Indie
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57%
12. Unepic
Shares controller support, Roguelike, role-playing, Pixel Graphics and Fantasy and 6 more tags.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 68
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 51%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Crawl?
On our similarity model, Moon Hunters is the closest match to Crawl — shares 4 Player Local, overlay, Roguelike, Action RPG and role-playing and 9 more tags; rated 0.4 lower; released within 2 years.
Which game like Crawl is rated highest?
Nuclear Throne holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.0/5 from 302 players.
Are there games like Crawl on Nintendo Switch?
Yes — we found 11 games like Crawl on Nintendo Switch. See the dedicated list.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Crawl on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.