Games like Sam & MaRU
If Sam & MaRU is your kind of game, the closest matches are Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division, Conge's Crunch Time and Crispy Circuits — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Sam & MaRU: Program robots to solve issues around Singularity Corporation’s factory. Make sure to keep your head down and eyes focused on your work tasks that take the form of puzzles. Don’t worry, Singularity has everyone’s best interest at heart and would never be planning something sinister...
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Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division
WHY THIS
Top pick for Sam & MaRU fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sam & MaRU.
Solve criminal cases through the power of SQL queries! Help out the city of Los Zorangeles by becoming a Database Detective in this new (unpaid) work from home opportunity.
Conge's Crunch Time
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Sam & MaRU fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sam & MaRU.
'Conge's Crunch Time' is a puzzle game where you solve factory tasks through intuitive drag-and-drop programming. Write code for your robot to clear each level, delve deeper into the factory, encounter new puzzle concepts and data-structure creatures, and uncover the truth.
Crispy Circuits
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Sam & MaRU fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sam & MaRU.
Discover the world of electronics by fixing your hamster’s RC plane. Build real circuits, solve increasingly challenging engineering puzzles, and learn how electronic devices actually work. This wholesome circuitry sim lets you electrocute your hamster without authorities getting involved.
Mystery Boxes
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Sam & MaRU fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sam & MaRU.
Mystery Boxes is a codebreaking puzzle game. Send 4-digit signals to a mysterious artifact, which will respond with another sequence. Look for patterns in the responses to identify the rules, then use this information to produce the target response.
ChipWits
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Sam & MaRU fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sam & MaRU.
Program a robot to solve logic puzzles in ChipWits, an open-ended programming game for beginners and experts alike! Inspired by the 1980s original, ChipWits combines the best of puzzle games, automation, and programming to introduce a new generation of players to a classic gaming experience.
HelloWorldFactory
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Sam & MaRU fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sam & MaRU.
A quick programming language quiz is now available! Just read the code and choose a compiler that can output "Hello World"! A simple game you can play in your free time!
Manufactoria 2022
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Sam & MaRU fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Manufactoria 2022 is a constructive puzzle game about pushing robots around. (It's okay, they don't complain.) Use simple parts to engineer solutions to open-ended problems, then rebuild 'em better! Take a company from your backyard to the soaring heights of success! How hard could it be?
Robospital
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Sam & MaRU fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sam & MaRU.
Become a doctor in Robospital and fix robots. Learn Python programming, write code, and test your code!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sam & MaRU at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sam & MaRU on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sam & MaRU.
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 ~50% under Sam & MaRU on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sam & MaRU.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sam & MaRU on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sam & MaRU.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sam & MaRU on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sam & MaRU.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Sam & MaRU on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sam & MaRU.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Sam & MaRU on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sam & MaRU.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sam & MaRU on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sam & MaRU.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sam & MaRU on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sam & MaRU.
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.
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 Sam & MaRU.
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 with Sam & MaRU.
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 Sam & MaRU.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sam & MaRU.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sam & MaRU.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sam & MaRU.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Frequently asked about Sam & MaRU
- How much does Sam & MaRU cost?
- Sam & MaRU is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Sam & MaRU?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sam & MaRU are Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division, Conge's Crunch Time, Crispy Circuits.
- Who developed Sam & MaRU?
- Sam & MaRU was developed by Space Cadet Interactive.
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