Games like Survival Machine
If Survival Machine is your kind of game, the closest matches are Voidtrain, Satisfactory and Soulmask — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Survival Machine: Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Players who liked Survival Machine also play
Steam players who put hours into Survival Machine 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.
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Survival Machine.
Top pick for Survival Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survival Machine.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Survival Machine.
Second-strongest match for Survival Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survival Machine.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Soulmask
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering and an atmospheric mood with Survival Machine.
Third-strongest match for Survival Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survival Machine.
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
ASKA
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering and a challenging mood with Survival Machine.
Ranked #4 for Survival Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Survival Machine.
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Eden Crafters
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Survival Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survival Machine.
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Palworld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Survival Machine.
Ranked #6 for Survival Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survival Machine.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Survival Machine.
Ranked #7 for Survival Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Survival Machine.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Scrap Mechanic
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Survival Machine.
Ranked #8 for Survival Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survival Machine.
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Survival Machine
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Survival Machine cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Survival Machine.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Survival Machine.
Reviewers of Survival Machine cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survival Machine.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Survival Machine.
Reviewers of Survival Machine cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Survival Machine.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Survival Machine.
Reviewers of Survival Machine cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survival Machine.
Command the checkpoint in a collapsing city. Screen survivors, manage scarce resources, and hold back the undead. Every choice matters and one mistake could unleash the plague beyond your walls.
Plants vs. Zombies™: Replanted
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Survival Machine cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The classic Plants vs. Zombies returns in glorious HD! The original battle between Plants and Zombies is back — bigger, brighter, and crazier than ever before! Experience the game that started it all, now remastered with stunning HD graphics and packed with new secrets and content to uncover.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Survival Machine at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Survival Machine.
Priced ~50% under Survival Machine on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Survival Machine.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Survival Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survival Machine.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Survival Machine on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Survival Machine.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Survival Machine on Steam right now. Shares Action with Survival Machine.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Survival Machine on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Survival Machine.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Survival Machine on Steam right now. Shares Action with Survival Machine.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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 and Free To Play with Survival Machine.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Survival Machine.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Survival Machine.
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 and Simulation with Survival Machine.
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 Survival Machine.
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 and Simulation with Survival Machine.
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 Action and Indie with Survival Machine.
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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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Survival Machine.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survival Machine.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Palworld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Survival Machine.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Survival Machine.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Survival Machine.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Survival Machine.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Frequently asked about Survival Machine
- Does Survival Machine run on Steam Deck?
- Survival Machine 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 Survival Machine cost?
- Survival Machine is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Survival Machine have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Survival Machine supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Survival Machine?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Survival Machine are Voidtrain, Satisfactory, Soulmask.
- Who developed Survival Machine?
- Survival Machine was developed by Grape Pickers and published by Games Operators, PlayWay S.A..
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 Survival Machine.
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