Games like Sprocket
If Sprocket is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts, NavalArt and Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its complex tank simulation, endless replayability and challenging. 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 →Sprocket is a simulation and action game released in 2021 by Hamish Dunn, currently priced at $19.99. Players design their own tanks in a sandbox environment, balancing mobility, firepower and armour, then test their creations across combat scenarios spanning from World War I through to modern eras. The game features workshop integration and mod support for expanded content. Reviewers and players describe it as challenging and immersive, highlighting a complex tank simulation that offers extensive replayability. It holds a 94% positive rating from over 7600 Steam reviews and runs as playable on Steam Deck.
About Sprocket: Carefully balance mobility, firepower and armour in a dedicated tank designer. Then uncarefully put them to the test in a series of combat scenarios progressing through the ages of the tank. Here, your limit is what you can fit inside your hull and turret while still being able to move forwards.
Players who liked Sprocket also play
Steam players who put hours into Sprocket 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.
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Sprocket.
Top pick for Sprocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sprocket.
Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!
NavalArt
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Sprocket.
Second-strongest match for Sprocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sprocket.
Design your own warships, equip them with a variety of armament, and bring them out to the ocean!
Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Sprocket.
Third-strongest match for Sprocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Developed by a team of experienced modders from the Paradox forum, Darkest Hour is a stand-alone Hearts of Iron game. The game features a mixture of short and in-depth campaigns set across the darkest chapters of the 20th century. Play from the outbreak of the Great War up until the onset of the Cold War.
Thunder Training Ground
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Sprocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sprocket.
You can freely define parameters such as aircraft performance and weapon performance to simulate all air combat scenarios. Additionally, the unique one-click scene reset function of this Training Ground enables you to complete up to 10 training sessions even within a brief one-minute timeframe.
City Defence Artillery
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Sprocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Sprocket.
City defence artillery, the war has begun. Defend cities, upgrade artillery and call in air defense systems.
Cannon Clicker
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Sprocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sprocket.
Build your army from nothing to military supremacy! Cannon Clicker blends addictive idle clicker action with real strategy in a WWII setting. Expand your skill tree, juggle three currencies, and command infantry, tanks and aircraft. Crush the enemy base and dominate every battlefield!
Bishojo Battlefield
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Sprocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sprocket.
A funny shooting game where you can customize the gameplay, such as zombies holding submachine guns and shooting aliens, or wolf dogs holding samurai swords and fighting special forces in close combat... How unexpected the settings will be depends on your imagination.
Armored Front: Tiger Command
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Sprocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sprocket.
Immerse yourself in a fully interactive VR Tiger Tank game and lead your way across the treacherous deserts of North Africa in a Legendary Tank of World War 2.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Sprocket
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Stormworks: Build and Rescue
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and an immersive mood with Sprocket.
Reviewers of Sprocket cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Sprocket.
Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
SimplePlanes
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Sprocket.
Reviewers of Sprocket cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sprocket.
Build airplanes by snapping parts together, designing wing sections, and attaching engines. At any time, you can strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies with realistic physics. If you're not in the mood for building, over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free.
Flyout
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Sprocket.
Reviewers of Sprocket cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sprocket.
Build and fly realistic aircraft. Use free-form fuselage and wing editor tools and tune your engines to recreate aircraft from any era or design your own.
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and an immersive mood with Sprocket.
Reviewers of Sprocket cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sprocket.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Sprocket.
Reviewers of Sprocket cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sprocket.
Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!
From the Depths
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Sprocket.
Reviewers of Sprocket cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Sprocket.
Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.
NavalArt
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Sprocket.
Reviewers of Sprocket cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sprocket.
Design your own warships, equip them with a variety of armament, and bring them out to the ocean!
Arms Trade Tycoon: Tanks
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Sprocket.
Reviewers of Sprocket cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sprocket.
Arms Trade Tycoon: Tanks is a unique combination of tank design and tycoon game. It puts you in charge of an arms trading company specialized in tanks from WWI to the modern era. Research, design, sell and follow your tanks in battle to make your own history!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sprocket at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Sprocket on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sprocket.
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 Sprocket on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Sprocket.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sprocket on Steam right now. Shares Action with Sprocket.
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 Sprocket on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Sprocket.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sprocket on Steam right now. Shares Action with Sprocket.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Sprocket.
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!
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Sprocket.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.
Where Winds Meet
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Sprocket.
Step into an open-world action-adventure RPG set in ancient China. Uncover the secrets of your own identity as you rise from a humble village wanderer to the sword master of the imperial capital. Learn martial arts and build your reputation as a hero or a bringer of chaos in this free wuxia world.
Rec Room
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Rec Room is the best place to build and play games together. Party up with friends from all around the world to chat, hang out, explore MILLIONS of player-created rooms, or build something new and amazing to share with us all.
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Sprocket.
Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.
World of Warships
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Sprocket.
Immerse yourself in thrilling naval battles and assemble an armada of over 800 ships from the first half of the 20th century — from stealthy destroyers to gigantic battleships. Change the look of your ship, choose upgrades to suit your play style, and go into battle with other players!
Bloons TD Battles 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Sprocket.
From the creators of Bloons TD6... Bloons TD Battles 2 is a brand new installment of the top-rated head-to-head tower defense game. Gather your Hero, choose your team of powerful Monkey Towers, and prepare to battle one on one against other players and relentless waves of Bloons!
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Frequently asked about Sprocket
- Does Sprocket run on Steam Deck?
- Sprocket 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 Sprocket cost?
- Sprocket is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Sprocket?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sprocket are Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts, NavalArt, Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
- Who developed Sprocket?
- Sprocket was developed by Hamish Dunn.
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