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Games like Sunshine Heavy Industries

If Sunshine Heavy Industries is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kibus Moon Rock, Infinifactory and When Ski Lifts Go Wrong — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, cozy 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.

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About Sunshine Heavy Industries: Welcome to Sunshine Heavy Industries! As the new spaceship engineer, solve increasingly tricky design puzzles with your own personal style. Manage customer demands, juggle budget and ship performance, and survive the questionable decision making skills of your business partner.

2021IndieSimulationCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Rocket Rat Games
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Steam players who put hours into Sunshine Heavy Industries 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. Kibus Moon Rock

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Sunshine Heavy Industries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    Kibus Moon Rock is a relaxing sandbox game about building a world for spacehogs. Create colourful forests or buzzing towns, unlock new buildings, find new biomes and collect creatures in a fantasy space world.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  2. Infinifactory

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Sunshine Heavy Industries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.

    2015IndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. When Ski Lifts Go Wrong

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Sunshine Heavy Industries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    Ride into a hilarious construction puzzler; packed with over 100 creative physics-based challenges, sports and bloody disasters! Build contraptions to help every passenger reach their destination. Enjoy the sports by controlling your riders away from (or towards if you feel like it) peril!

    2019SportsIndieSimulation1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Sunshine Heavy Industries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    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 ↗
  5. Unbox the Room

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    Ranked #5 for Sunshine Heavy Industries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    Unbox the Room is a relaxing simulator where you play as an interior designer helping clients move into their new homes. Unbox and arrange their belongings to create a cozy space, placing everything just right — from the smallest cup to the largest sofa.

    2025IndieSimulationCasual7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Bridge Constructor Portal

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Sunshine Heavy Industries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    Enter the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and experience Bridge Constructor Portal – the unique merging of the classic Portal™ and Bridge Constructor™ games.

    2017StrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Loafing Town

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    Ranked #7 for Sunshine Heavy Industries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    A relaxing and humorous idle god simulator that stays at the bottom of your screen or on a second monitor while you do other things. With physics-based dragging interactions, it feels just like playing with desk toys.

    2025IndieSimulationCasual6.29 USDSteam ↗
  8. Hardspace: Shipbreaker

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    Ranked #8 for Sunshine Heavy Industries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

    2022Simulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Sunshine Heavy Industries on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    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 ~67% under Sunshine Heavy Industries on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    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. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Sunshine Heavy Industries on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Sunshine Heavy Industries on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Sunshine Heavy Industries on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Sunshine Heavy Industries on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    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 ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Sunshine Heavy Industries on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

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

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Sunshine Heavy Industries on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    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.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Unbox the Room

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    Unbox the Room is a relaxing simulator where you play as an interior designer helping clients move into their new homes. Unbox and arrange their belongings to create a cozy space, placing everything just right — from the smallest cup to the largest sofa.

    2025IndieSimulationCasual7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Bridge Constructor Portal

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    Enter the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and experience Bridge Constructor Portal – the unique merging of the classic Portal™ and Bridge Constructor™ games.

    2017StrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Hardspace: Shipbreaker

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Sunshine Heavy Industries.

    Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

    2022Simulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Sunshine Heavy Industries

Does Sunshine Heavy Industries run on Steam Deck?
Sunshine Heavy Industries 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 Sunshine Heavy Industries cost?
Sunshine Heavy Industries is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Sunshine Heavy Industries?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sunshine Heavy Industries are Kibus Moon Rock, Infinifactory, When Ski Lifts Go Wrong.
Who developed Sunshine Heavy Industries?
Sunshine Heavy Industries was developed by Rocket Rat 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 Sunshine Heavy Industries.

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