Games like Screeps: Arena
If Screeps: Arena is your kind of game, the closest matches are Decoherence, GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena and Automata Empire — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its active developer engagement, fast paced matches 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 Screeps: Arena: Screeps: Arena is an online asynchronous PvP strategy game for programming enthusiasts. You write real JavaScript to control your units, and they fight autonomously against other players in a 1v1 match-based arena environment.
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Steam players who put hours into Screeps: Arena 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.
Decoherence
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Top pick for Screeps: Arena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Screeps: Arena.
Build robots, devise a battle plan and fight alongside them!
GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Screeps: Arena.
Second-strongest match for Screeps: Arena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Screeps: Arena.
Assemble your robot squad, construct their AI and send them in the battle arena to see your strategy play out. Iterate, improve and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.
Automata Empire
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Shares a contemplative mood with Screeps: Arena.
Third-strongest match for Screeps: Arena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Screeps: Arena.
Seize power and build an empire of fuzzy cellular automata monsters! Herd hundreds of mindless subjects to smash your rivals' castles and steal their territory in this RTS inspired by Conway's Game of Life.
Echoes of the Architects
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Shares an intense mood with Screeps: Arena.
Ranked #4 for Screeps: Arena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Screeps: Arena.
Design the perfect units, program their behavior, and unleash them in fully automated battles. Refine your creations throughout the campaign, then outsmart all your opponents online.
Terranny
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Ranked #5 for Screeps: Arena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Screeps: Arena.
Design and program drones, then send them into autonomous battles. Test your logic in this "Carnage Heart" (カルネージハート) inspired game.
Galactic Defense: Automation
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Ranked #6 for Screeps: Arena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Screeps: Arena.
"Galactic Defense: Automation" is a Placement, Automated Battle, Real-Time Strategy game. Players can place construction plans, observe automated construction, automated battles, and unlock new technologies. Players pass the level after collecting tech points through activities.
Sentry:Obelisk Of Dawn
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Ranked #7 for Screeps: Arena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Screeps: Arena.
“Sentry:Obelisk Of Dawn”is a VR-like MOBA game. The game supports 5vs5 sports at most, and players can customize and cultivate their own combat characters to participate in fierce battles on the battlefield.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Screeps: Arena at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Screeps: Arena on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Screeps: Arena.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Screeps: Arena on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Screeps: Arena.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Screeps: Arena on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Screeps: Arena.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Screeps: Arena on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Screeps: Arena.
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!
PEAK
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Priced ~60% under Screeps: Arena on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Screeps: Arena.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~63% under Screeps: Arena on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Screeps: Arena.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Screeps: Arena.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Screeps: Arena.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Dota 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Screeps: Arena.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
AdVenture Capitalist
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Screeps: Arena.
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
Dota Underlords
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Screeps: Arena.
Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.
Supermarket Together
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Screeps: Arena.
The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!
Fallout Shelter
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Screeps: Arena.
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
Minion Masters
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Screeps: Arena.
An addictive fast-paced hybrid of Card games & Tower-Defense. Play 1v1 - or bring a friend for 2v2 - and engage in epic online multiplayer battles full of innovative strategy and awesome plays! Collect 200+ cards with unique mechanics, all free!
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Frequently asked about Screeps: Arena
- Does Screeps: Arena run on Steam Deck?
- Screeps: Arena 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 Screeps: Arena cost?
- Screeps: Arena is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Screeps: Arena have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Screeps: Arena supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Screeps: Arena?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Screeps: Arena are Decoherence, GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena, Automata Empire.
- Who developed Screeps: Arena?
- Screeps: Arena was developed by Screeps, LLC.
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