Games like Submachine: Legacy
If Submachine: Legacy is your kind of game, the closest matches are Vertigo Enigma, Magnus Positive Phototaxis and Dabado Puzzles — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and immersive. 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 Submachine: Legacy: Submachine is a hand-drawn puzzle adventure game. You find yourself in a vast network of desolate locations containing puzzles, secrets, notes and items to collect to help you along the way. Follow the story of a banished lighthouse keeper to discover his descent into ruins.
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Vertigo Enigma
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Top pick for Submachine: Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Submachine: Legacy.
Congratulations! You have been chosen for Vertigo Enigma. A narrative puzzle experiment where your logic and observation are the test. Until it glitches. Until you understand what "chosen" means...
Magnus Positive Phototaxis
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Submachine: Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Submachine: Legacy.
Magnus Positive Phototaxis is an atmospheric journey through a mysterious world of characters, traces and symbols. The task of the player is to solve the puzzles, using proper combinations of objects, finding them in the environment around him.
Dabado Puzzles
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Submachine: Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Submachine: Legacy.
Adventure/exploration puzzler, where you build constructions from blocks, collect score items, light and buttons. Exploring the mysterious island, you meet unique characters and complete quests.
Opus Cortex: A Nonogram Puzzle Story
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Submachine: Legacy.
Ranked #4 for Submachine: Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Submachine: Legacy.
Solve captivating nonogram puzzles to recover your lost memories. As a newly awakened AI, every puzzle you complete reveals a piece of the truth about your past and the dangers facing the world. Unravel the mystery, pixel by pixel.
Slice of Sea
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Submachine: Legacy.
Ranked #5 for Submachine: Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Submachine: Legacy.
Slice of Sea is a peaceful adventure and puzzle game. You play as Seaweed, a sea creature clearly out of their element. Explore desolate world of dust, all hand-drawn on paper in unique art style. Collect items, solve puzzles and lead Seaweed back home to the sea.
Lone McLonegan : A Western Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Submachine: Legacy.
Ranked #6 for Submachine: Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Submachine: Legacy.
Lone McLonegan is an old-school point-n-click adventure game inspired by old westerns with touches of acid humor. Help Lone become "The Most Wanted Outlaw In The Wild West" as you tackle fun puzzles and meet quirky characters.
Punzel: Chapter I - Toujours la Meme Histoire
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Ranked #7 for Submachine: Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Submachine: Legacy.
Imagine you are a captured princess...but the hero never arrives. Join Punzel in her adventure of trying to escape her tower prison. Experience the boredom of captivity, the daily frustrations of haggling with your captors and crows. Lots of crows.
Gnomdom
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Ranked #8 for Submachine: Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Submachine: Legacy.
Gnomdom is a point & click puzzle game where you find little gnomes stuck in various places and help them return to their home.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Submachine: Legacy at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Submachine: Legacy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Submachine: Legacy.
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 ~60% under Submachine: Legacy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Submachine: Legacy.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~60% under Submachine: Legacy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Submachine: Legacy.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~80% under Submachine: Legacy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Submachine: Legacy.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Submachine: Legacy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Submachine: Legacy.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Submachine: Legacy.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Submachine: Legacy.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Submachine: Legacy.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Submachine: Legacy.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Submachine: Legacy.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Submachine: Legacy.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Submachine: Legacy.
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.
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Frequently asked about Submachine: Legacy
- Does Submachine: Legacy run on Steam Deck?
- Submachine: Legacy 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 Submachine: Legacy cost?
- Submachine: Legacy is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Submachine: Legacy?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Submachine: Legacy are Vertigo Enigma, Magnus Positive Phototaxis, Dabado Puzzles.
- Who developed Submachine: Legacy?
- Submachine: Legacy was developed by Mateusz Skutnik.
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