Games like Junk
If Junk is your kind of game, the closest matches are CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations, Post Apocalyptic Gas Station (PAGS) and Republic of Pirates — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Junk: Manage a community consisting of the craziest scum left on Earth after it was totally flooded. Expand your town, research craziest new technology, send expeditions to gather materials but whatever you do don’t let any of the groups living in your town gain more power than the others...
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CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations
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Top pick for Junk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Junk.
Run a childcare plant where babies spend their first year in automated care. Build conveyor networks for feeding, sleep, hygiene, and play. As babies grow, their needs change. Keep your factory efficient while adapting to each child's unique reactions.
Post Apocalyptic Gas Station (PAGS)
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Junk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Junk.
Run the last known gas station in the southwest in this base building colony sim. Set the fuel price, build and staff a fortified outpost, send crews into the wastes, and deal with the factions at your pumps. Weigh morale decisions against one another as you expand your empire.
Republic of Pirates
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Third-strongest match for Junk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Junk.
Establish and grow a pirate utopia during the Golden Age of Piracy. Create a resource-based economy, engage in real-time naval combat, and conduct diplomacy with rival powers. Explore the far reaches of the Caribbean in search of the ultimate fortune and glory.
Eastern Era
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Ranked #4 for Junk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Junk.
To escape from pursuit, as the leader of your sect, guide your disciples to rise again! Engage in farming and hunting, train in martial arts, and forge weapons and armor. Build your sect's base and fortifications from the ground up to survive in this perilous, ambition-filled martial world!
Sintopia
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Ranked #5 for Junk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Junk.
Manage Hell. Manipulate the Overworld. Build the resurrection business of your dreams! In Sintopia, you’re tasked with managing the bureaucratic administration of Hell: “re-educate” the sinful, generate profit, play god and expand your hellish empire. All part of a day’s work at Hell Incorporated.
The Invisible Hand
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Ranked #6 for Junk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Junk.
Want to get rich, quick? Welcome to FERIOS, where you’ll be empowered to pursue wealth and success as a mid-level stockbroker! Your wildest dreams of wealth can come true… at the cost of everything else.
Mandate Order
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Ranked #7 for Junk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Junk.
Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.
Corsair Cove
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Junk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Junk.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Junk.
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 and Simulation with Junk.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Junk.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Junk.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Junk.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Junk.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Junk.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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More from Art Games Studio S.A.
Other recommendable Steam games by Art Games Studio S.A., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Alchemist Simulator
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Another title from Art Games Studio S.A., the studio behind Junk. Shares Indie and Simulation with Junk.
Become the mystical alchemist, choose your contracts wisely as they will shape the world around you, discover the long forgotten magical recipes, upgrade your lab and become the most powerful alchemist of all times.
WW2: Bunker Simulator
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Another title from Art Games Studio S.A., the studio behind Junk. Shares Simulation with Junk.
During WWII you are an American soldier who captured the german bunker in Normandy. You must defend it at all costs and survive this World War II. Complete missions, cook & shoot, search the bodies for medicines, ammo, and food to survive. WW2: Bunker Simulator is a mix of fps and simulator.
Climber: Sky is the Limit
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Another title from Art Games Studio S.A., the studio behind Junk. Shares Simulation with Junk.
Climber: Sky is the Limit is a mountain walking simulator game where you become a winter climber. To succeed you need to plan the trip, prepare appropriate equipment, face extreme weather conditions and survive. Only the sky is the limit!
SPYHACK: Episode 1
WHY THIS
Another title from Art Games Studio S.A., the studio behind Junk. Shares Indie with Junk.
SpyHack is a tactical action game where you play as male or female ATD Agent stealthily sneaking past guards or dispatching them with various weapons. Walk your way through the levels, hack various devices and terminals to reveal rooms. Get rid of guards and take control over hacked contraptions.
The Worst Day Ever
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Another title from Art Games Studio S.A., the studio behind Junk. Shares Indie with Junk.
Shoot dozens of clever weapons, avoid hundreds of enemy shells and explore the mysterious corners of a corporation dominated by demonic powers in this arcade Bullet Hell shooter. Will you manage to break through multiple levels of the dark office building and regain your freedom? Find out now!
Pooplers
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Another title from Art Games Studio S.A., the studio behind Junk. Shares Indie with Junk.
Pooplers is a multiplayer game where up to four players take control over babies. Toddlers do not belong to the calm ones, as soon as nobody watches them, they crawl around the house, pooping. A humorous game, however, has a number of elements that diversify the gameplay.
Chef's Tail
WHY THIS
Another title from Art Games Studio S.A., the studio behind Junk. Shares Indie with Junk.
Play as the "Cat Chef" in the spooky but cute underworld. Earn your coin by tending the trees, fishing and creating incredible dishes, or just sleep for 16 hours a day on a comfy pillow. The choice is yours.
Negative: The Way of Shinobi
WHY THIS
Another title from Art Games Studio S.A., the studio behind Junk. Shares Indie with Junk.
2D action platformer game with ninjas. Stylized graphics and a narrative-driven story will emphasize the gameplay. For those who see themselves as hard core players. This game will make you fail... a lot. Will you accept the challenge?
Frequently asked about Junk
- What games are most similar to Junk?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Junk are CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations, Post Apocalyptic Gas Station (PAGS), Republic of Pirates.
- Who developed Junk?
- Junk was developed by Art Games Studio S.A..
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 Junk.
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