Games like Buoyancy
If Buoyancy is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Last Haven, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation and They Are Billions — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its charming visuals and soundtrack, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Buoyancy: Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Players who liked Buoyancy also play
Steam players who put hours into Buoyancy 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.
The Last Haven
WHY THIS
Shares survival strategy, resource management and a challenging mood with Buoyancy.
Top pick for Buoyancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Buoyancy.
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Buoyancy.
Second-strongest match for Buoyancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Buoyancy.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
They Are Billions
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Buoyancy.
Third-strongest match for Buoyancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Buoyancy.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Atomic Society
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with Buoyancy.
Ranked #4 for Buoyancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Buoyancy.
Build a town in a post-apocalyptic world. Gather resources to expand and survive. Express your moral and ethical views by setting laws that affect how people live. What kind of society will you make?
Empires of the Undergrowth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Buoyancy.
Ranked #5 for Buoyancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Buoyancy.
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Depraved
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Buoyancy.
Ranked #6 for Buoyancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Buoyancy.
Depraved is a city builder game with survival aspects, settled in the Wild West. Build towns and establish important outposts to supply your residents with food and other raw materials. Resist the seasons, dangerous animals, and bandits and conquer the Wild West.
Planetbase
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Buoyancy.
Ranked #7 for Buoyancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Buoyancy.
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Dawn of Man
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with Buoyancy.
Ranked #8 for Buoyancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Buoyancy.
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Buoyancy at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Buoyancy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Buoyancy.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Buoyancy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Buoyancy.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Buoyancy on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Buoyancy.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Buoyancy on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Buoyancy.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Buoyancy on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Buoyancy.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Buoyancy on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Buoyancy.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Buoyancy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Buoyancy.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Buoyancy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Buoyancy.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
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 Buoyancy.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Buoyancy.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Buoyancy.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Buoyancy.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Buoyancy.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Buoyancy.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Buoyancy.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about Buoyancy
- Does Buoyancy run on Steam Deck?
- Buoyancy 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 Buoyancy cost?
- Buoyancy is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Buoyancy?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Buoyancy are The Last Haven, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation, They Are Billions.
- Who developed Buoyancy?
- Buoyancy was developed by Devs on a Boat.
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 Buoyancy.
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