Games like Outpost Engineer
If Outpost Engineer is your kind of game, the closest matches are Demonsions: Industry, Orebound and MegaFactory Titan — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its addictive time consuming loops, challenging and contemplative. 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.
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Demonsions: Industry
WHY THIS
Top pick for Outpost Engineer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Outpost Engineer.
Demonsions: Industry is an open world, procedurally generated block crafting/building game. Everything can be mined. Enjoy crafting, building, and fully automating your survival in this strange world.
Orebound
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Outpost Engineer.
Second-strongest match for Outpost Engineer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Outpost Engineer.
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
MegaFactory Titan
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Outpost Engineer.
Third-strongest match for Outpost Engineer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Outpost Engineer.
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
TerraTech Worlds
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Outpost Engineer.
Ranked #4 for Outpost Engineer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Outpost Engineer.
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Star Crafter
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Outpost Engineer.
Ranked #5 for Outpost Engineer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Outpost Engineer.
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
FortressCraft Evolved!
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Outpost Engineer.
Ranked #6 for Outpost Engineer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Outpost Engineer.
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.
Outerverse
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Outpost Engineer.
Ranked #7 for Outpost Engineer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Outpost Engineer.
Build automated machines and weapons across the universe, beat massive bosses, experience cosmic events and explore unique landmarks in this quest driven automation crafting adventure game. Includes a manual scenario for crafting instead of machines for those not a fan of logic/automation!
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Outpost Engineer.
Ranked #8 for Outpost Engineer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Outpost Engineer.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
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Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Outpost Engineer.
Reviewers of Outpost Engineer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Outpost Engineer.
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 Outpost Engineer.
Reviewers of Outpost Engineer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Outpost Engineer.
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
Shares a contemplative mood with Outpost Engineer.
Reviewers of Outpost Engineer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Outpost Engineer.
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.
Evospace
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Outpost Engineer.
Reviewers of Outpost Engineer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Outpost Engineer.
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Dyson Sphere Program
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Outpost Engineer.
Reviewers of Outpost Engineer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Outpost Engineer.
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Outpost Engineer at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Outpost Engineer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Outpost Engineer.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Outpost Engineer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Outpost Engineer.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Outpost Engineer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Outpost Engineer.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Outpost Engineer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Outpost Engineer.
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 ~65% under Outpost Engineer on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Outpost Engineer.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Outpost Engineer.
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!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Outpost Engineer.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Outpost Engineer.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Outpost Engineer.
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.
PlanetSide 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.
AdVenture Capitalist
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Outpost Engineer.
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
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Frequently asked about Outpost Engineer
- How much does Outpost Engineer cost?
- Outpost Engineer is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Outpost Engineer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Outpost Engineer are Demonsions: Industry, Orebound, MegaFactory Titan.
- Who developed Outpost Engineer?
- Outpost Engineer was developed by David Decraene and published by WombatBarn.
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