4 Games like Crawl on Xbox that you should try

It shares the essentials of what Crawl does: procedural generation, melee combat and fantasy world. The common ground extends to exploration and discovery, and multiplayer gameplay. Where the two diverge is tone and setting: strong narrative focus.

If Crawl worked for you because of procedural generation, melee combat and fantasy world, the same is here. To that it adds exploration and discovery, and co-op play. They part company on tone and combat: this one brings punishing difficulty and magic-based combat.

On paper it is what Crawl is — dark, oppressive atmosphere, procedural generation and melee combat — though the resemblance is mostly at that level. Both also lean on single-player focus and pixel art. The distance is in tone and combat — its own ground is punishing difficulty and ranged combat.

What brings it close to Crawl is procedural generation, melee combat and fantasy world, and the two track each other on genre, combat and world. To that it adds exploration and discovery, and single-player focus. They part company on tone and game mode: this one brings strong narrative focus and a mythological setting.