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Games like Sketchbots

If Sketchbots is your kind of game, the closest matches are Droning On, Pathological Tires and Robot Unlock — 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.

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About Sketchbots: Hone your programming skills through a series of increasingly complex challenges in which you use a node based language to guide your robot through the required goals.

2021Indie9.99 USDWindows · Linuxby Quarc Games
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Players who liked Sketchbots also play

Steam players who put hours into Sketchbots 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.

  1. Droning On

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Sketchbots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    Write code that looks and feels just like Python to guide Gizmo through hazardous mazes, devious puzzles, and procedurally generated runs that push you, and your code, to the limit. Learn to code, climb the leaderboards, and customize your robo-homie.

    2028StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  2. Pathological Tires

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Sketchbots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    A challenging, racing-themed puzzle game about finding and choosing the fastest route. Find the right balance of maintaining momentum by avoiding sharp turns and obstacles, while also keeping the distance as short as possible.

    2021Indie7.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Robot Unlock

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Sketchbots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    Robot Unlock is an open-ended puzzle game with 75+ levels. Design your own solutions and optimize them for speed, instructions or space and compare with other players. Create your own levels, challenge other players and solve community made ones.

    2025IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. DumbBots

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Sketchbots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    Create an AI for your DumbBots to help them achieve victory! Learn the basics of coding with guns, explosions, and ragdolls.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. ProBelt

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Sketchbots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    ProBelt is a game in which you calculate results by using mathematical operators. Conveyor belts are used to transport numbers between operators.

    2026IndieSimulationCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Make Them Walk

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Sketchbots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    Step into the world of a Maze Building Tower Defense game where enemies are smart enough to choose only the Shortest path while making best use for the random cards you've dealt with.

    2023StrategyIndie5.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Hexahedra

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Sketchbots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Hexahedra is a puzzle game about beautiful efficiency. Design, program, and optimize factories to build cubes, used galaxy-wide as crates, satellite housing, even chic coffins. Rewind the action to hunt for improvements. Compete with friends, and help a tiny octopus with a nightmare family visit.

    2024Simulation20.00 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Lowsy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Sketchbots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    Lowsy - a game whose main goal is to complete the level in such a way that each eyelid gets an eye. The eye has several parameters: color, speed, temperature, height, and you can change them with the help of objects.

    2021StrategyIndie0.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sketchbots at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Sketchbots on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Sketchbots on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Sketchbots on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Sketchbots on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Sketchbots on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Sketchbots on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Sketchbots on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Your Only Move Is HUSTLE

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Sketchbots on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. An Arcade Full of Cats

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 100 Asian Cats

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️‍♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️‍♂️🐈✅

    2023ActionSportsStrategyFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Die in the Dungeon: Origins

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!

    2023StrategyIndieRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 100 Capitalist Cats

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    🐱💼 100 Capitalist Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Wall Street! 😻💰💵 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of New York, heart of Capitalism, as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️‍♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️‍♂️🐈✅

    2024ActionSportsStrategyFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. DOGWALK

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.

    2025IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Mizi NO!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sketchbots.

    In this free 2D puzzle game, you must reassemble broken objects that your cat has knocked over.

    2024IndieCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Sketchbots

How much does Sketchbots cost?
Sketchbots is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Sketchbots?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sketchbots are Droning On, Pathological Tires, Robot Unlock.
Who developed Sketchbots?
Sketchbots was developed by Quarc Games.

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 Sketchbots.

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