Games like Evolve Lab
If Evolve Lab is your kind of game, the closest matches are Terranny, Auto Jurassic Knights and Mirror Throne: Auto Battler — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and competitive. 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 Evolve Lab: In this roguelike auto battler, every enemy you face was created by another player! Modify and improve your creatures' behaviour after each battle and see how far down you can make it. Do you have what it takes to be the first to reach depths, where no one has gone before?
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Terranny
WHY THIS
Top pick for Evolve Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Evolve Lab.
Design and program drones, then send them into autonomous battles. Test your logic in this "Carnage Heart" (カルネージハート) inspired game.
Auto Jurassic Knights
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Evolve Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Evolve Lab.
Build the strongest squad of knights and dinosaurs to clash with your friends! Progress through the shop, gamble, merge, synergize, and equip your way to victory!
Mirror Throne: Auto Battler
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Evolve Lab.
Third-strongest match for Evolve Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Evolve Lab.
Assemble a party and master synergies in this Roguelite Auto Battler. Strategically place units and combine their unique abilities to defeat the Mirrored Legion. With game changing trinkets, events, and treasures, no two runs are the same. Adapt and evolve on your quest to reclaim the Mirror Throne!
SkyShard: City Battler
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Evolve Lab.
Ranked #4 for Evolve Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Evolve Lab.
City Building Auto Battler! Build your kingdom with powerful weapons, walls, houses, and endless synergies, then battle other players in asynchronous multiplayer, or overcome various solo challenges.
Legion Draft
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Evolve Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Evolve Lab.
This is an async PvP card autobattler where each card represents a troop group that keeps growing. Draft cards, recruit soldiers, and build a legion that surpasses every opponent. Explore fantasy races with different synergies, and become a master strategist！
Claw and Conjure
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Evolve Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Evolve Lab.
The empire is in ruins. Build an elite army from 5 unique factions in this fantasy RPG auto-battler. Clash with real players in async PvP, discover powerful synergies, and outmaneuver your opponents to rule the empire.
Gridbound Tactics
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Evolve Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Evolve Lab.
Gridbound Tactics is an async PvP auto-battler where positioning decides who becomes your carry, tank, or support. Draft units, match adjacent traits, and test your board against rival player-built armies.
Down with the Ship
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Evolve Lab.
Ranked #8 for Evolve Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Evolve Lab.
Strategic auto battler where you design a heavily-armed spaceship. Draft 200+ items, outfit your hull, and unleash it in async PvP. Blend captains and factions for absurd combos and galactic domination. Roll, buy, place, pray.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Evolve Lab at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Evolve Lab on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Evolve Lab.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Evolve Lab on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Evolve Lab.
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 ~53% under Evolve Lab on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Evolve Lab.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Evolve Lab on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Evolve Lab.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Evolve Lab on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Evolve Lab.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Evolve Lab on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Evolve Lab.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Evolve Lab on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Evolve Lab.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Evolve Lab on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Evolve Lab.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Evolve Lab.
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?
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Evolve Lab.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Evolve Lab.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Evolve Lab.
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!
Samorost 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Evolve Lab.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
one night, hot springs
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Evolve Lab.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
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Frequently asked about Evolve Lab
- Does Evolve Lab run on Steam Deck?
- Evolve Lab 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 Evolve Lab cost?
- Evolve Lab is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Evolve Lab have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Evolve Lab supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Evolve Lab?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Evolve Lab are Terranny, Auto Jurassic Knights, Mirror Throne: Auto Battler.
- Who developed Evolve Lab?
- Evolve Lab was developed by SiRen Games.
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