Games like Making it Home
If Making it Home is your kind of game, the closest matches are Autonauts, Desynced and Hydroneer — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its gentle narrative about perseverance, challenging and relaxing. 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 Making it Home: A vehicle building game. Put your engineering, design and creativity skills to the test as you combine simple elements into complex contraptions. Jump around your vehicle to keep it moving and overcome challenges in the campaign, or just relax and build your dream machine in the cozy mode!
Players who liked Making it Home also play
Steam players who put hours into Making it Home 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.
Autonauts
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Making it Home.
Top pick for Making it Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Making it Home.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Desynced
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Making it Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Making it Home.
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Hydroneer
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Making it Home.
Third-strongest match for Making it Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Making it Home.
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Making it Home.
Ranked #4 for Making it Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Making it Home.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
FortressCraft Evolved!
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Making it Home.
Ranked #5 for Making it Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Making it Home.
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Making it Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Making it Home.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Stormworks: Build and Rescue
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Making it Home.
Ranked #7 for Making it Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Making it Home.
Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
Bone's Cafe
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Making it Home.
Ranked #8 for Making it Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Making it Home.
Bone's Cafe is a fast paced, 1-4 Players couch co-op, cooking game. Customize the layout of your kitchen to guarantee your success. Specialize your menu in ingredients and recipes to design your ultimate cafe. Put your necromancy skills to the test and raise your own undead kitchen staff.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Making it Home at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Making it Home on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Making it Home.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Making it Home on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Making it Home.
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?
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Making it Home on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Making it Home.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Making it Home on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Making it Home.
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.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Making it Home on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Making it Home.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under Making it Home on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Making it Home.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Making it Home on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Making it Home.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Making it Home on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Making it Home.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Making it Home.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Making it Home.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Making it Home.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Making it Home.
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 Adventure with Making it Home.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Making it Home.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Making it Home.
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.
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More from Pill Bug Interactive
Other recommendable Steam games by Pill Bug Interactive, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Making it Home.
Another title from Pill Bug Interactive, the studio behind Making it Home. Shares Simulation with Making it Home.
A toy ecosystem with fully simulated genetics and evolution. Will you tinker with DNA or sit back, relax, and see if life finds a way?
Cycle 28
WHY THIS
Another title from Pill Bug Interactive, the studio behind Making it Home.
Cycle 28 is an intense momentum-based space shooter driven by a cinematic orchestral soundtrack. A game where the physics, the music, and the fight to survive combine to pull you into a place where nothing else exists... just you, your ship, and the need to do better.
Captain Contraption's Chocolate Factory
WHY THIS
Another title from Pill Bug Interactive, the studio behind Making it Home. Shares Simulation with Making it Home.
A contraption building game. Design and build your own machines to combine ingredients to make chocolates. Automate production using simple components to create ingenious contraptions, which are as satisfying to watch as they are to optimise.
Frequently asked about Making it Home
- Does Making it Home run on Steam Deck?
- Making it Home 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 Making it Home cost?
- Making it Home is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Making it Home have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Making it Home supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Making it Home?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Making it Home are Autonauts, Desynced, Hydroneer.
- Who developed Making it Home?
- Making it Home was developed by Pill Bug Interactive.
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 Making it Home.
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