Crawl similar games & best alternatives

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Crawl

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2017

Should you play it?

Crawl is the local multiplayer dungeon crawler where your friends control the monsters! Battle through dungeons and power up your hero - if a friend kills you they take your place and it’s their turn to crawl. It's a race to gain enough XP and loot to take on the hulking final boss!

What works

  • Unique and fun asymmetrical multiplayer gameplay
  • Great local multiplayer party experience
  • Balanced progression and upgrades
  • Engaging pixel art and soundtrack
  • High replay value

Things to keep in mind

  • Lack of online multiplayer
  • Limited content and bosses
  • Ai bots less enjoyable than human players
  • Some balance issues with bosses
  • Repetitive environments

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • TowerFall Ascension

  • Son of a Witch

  • Serious Sam's Bogus Detour

  • Bravery and Greed

  • GUNTOUCHABLES

  • HELLCARD

Less competitive

Games that feels like Crawl but with less competition against others

  • Rampage Knights

  • Voidigo

  • Mana Spark

  • UnderMine 2

  • Sephiria

  • Metaverse Keeper / 元能失控

Less dominating

Games that feels like Crawl but with less domination over others

  • Ember Knights

  • Secrets of Grindea

  • Bounty of One

  • Full Mojo Rampage

  • Vertical Drop Heroes HD

  • Crypt of the NecroDancer

Less intimate

Games that feels like Crawl but with less focus on close relationships

  • Hell is Others

  • Half Minute Hero: The Second Coming

  • Nuclear Throne

  • Coromon

  • Amazing Cultivation Simulator

  • Hunger Dungeon

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Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Crawl. These titles are not in What to play next.

Crawl: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Domination. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation.

Last update: 21/08/2026