Games like Illuminaria
If Illuminaria is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hammerting, Per Aspera and Facteroids — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its accessible difficulty curve, automated robots handle busywork and chill. 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 Illuminaria: Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Players who liked Illuminaria also play
Steam players who put hours into Illuminaria 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.
Hammerting
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Illuminaria.
Top pick for Illuminaria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illuminaria.
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Per Aspera
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Illuminaria.
Second-strongest match for Illuminaria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illuminaria.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Facteroids
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Illuminaria.
Third-strongest match for Illuminaria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illuminaria.
Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.
Captain of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Illuminaria.
Ranked #4 for Illuminaria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illuminaria.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Autonauts
WHY THIS
Shares automation and a relaxing mood with Illuminaria.
Ranked #5 for Illuminaria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Illuminaria.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Moose Miners
WHY THIS
Shares automation, resource management and a chill mood with Illuminaria.
Ranked #6 for Illuminaria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illuminaria.
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Shares automation, resource management and a relaxing mood with Illuminaria.
Ranked #7 for Illuminaria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illuminaria.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Automation Empire
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Illuminaria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illuminaria.
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Illuminaria at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Illuminaria on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Illuminaria.
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 Illuminaria on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Illuminaria.
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 ~47% under Illuminaria on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Illuminaria.
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 Illuminaria on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Illuminaria.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Illuminaria on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illuminaria.
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 Illuminaria on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illuminaria.
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 Illuminaria on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illuminaria.
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 ~67% under Illuminaria on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Illuminaria.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 Illuminaria.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Illuminaria.
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 Illuminaria.
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?
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 Illuminaria.
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 with Illuminaria.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Illuminaria.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Illuminaria.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Illuminaria
- How much does Illuminaria cost?
- Illuminaria is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Illuminaria?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Illuminaria are Hammerting, Per Aspera, Facteroids.
- Who developed Illuminaria?
- Illuminaria was developed by Selva Interactive.
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 Illuminaria.
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