Games like Engineer Alpha
If Engineer Alpha is your kind of game, the closest matches are FluxWerks, Demonsions: Industry and Voxelantis — 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 Engineer Alpha: An open world survival and automation game. Engineer Alpha combines an infinite editable world, building and connecting of automated machinery, and RPG style player progression.
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FluxWerks
WHY THIS
Top pick for Engineer Alpha fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Engineer Alpha.
Build, automate, manage heat and expand in a vast, ever-expanding voxel world. Harness dynamic fluids, design sprawling factory lines, and research your way from early mining technologies to quantum computing.
Demonsions: Industry
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Engineer Alpha fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Engineer Alpha.
Demonsions: Industry is an open world, procedurally generated block crafting/building game. Everything can be mined. Enjoy crafting, building, and fully automating your survival in this strange world.
Voxelantis
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Engineer Alpha fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Engineer Alpha.
Voxelantis is a sandbox building and survival game set in a flat or spherical voxel world. Build anything out of your imagination, or adventure into uncharted territories to fight dangerous creatures. You can and deserve to have a small home planet of your own.
Orebound
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Engineer Alpha.
Ranked #4 for Engineer Alpha fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Engineer Alpha.
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Cyber Farmer
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Engineer Alpha fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Engineer Alpha.
Cyber Farmer is a crazy farming simulator where old meets new! Take over your grandpa Kazimierz's farm in a post-apocalyptic world☢️, using cyber tech🤖, modified plants🌾, and even cyber pigs🐷. It’s full of laughs, weird surprises, and quirky farming fun. Farm the future, laugh through the past!
Evospace
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Engineer Alpha.
Ranked #6 for Engineer Alpha fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Engineer Alpha.
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
TerraTech Worlds
WHY THIS
Shares tech tree progression and a stressful mood with Engineer Alpha.
Ranked #7 for Engineer Alpha fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Engineer Alpha.
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
MineMogul
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Engineer Alpha fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Engineer Alpha.
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Engineer Alpha
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Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares power grid management and a contemplative mood with Engineer Alpha.
Reviewers of Engineer Alpha cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Engineer Alpha.
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!
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Engineer Alpha cross-mention this title as a similar play.
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.
Minecraft Legends
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Engineer Alpha.
Reviewers of Engineer Alpha cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Engineer Alpha at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Engineer Alpha on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Engineer Alpha.
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 Engineer Alpha on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Engineer Alpha.
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 Engineer Alpha on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Engineer Alpha.
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 Engineer Alpha on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Engineer Alpha.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Engineer Alpha on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Engineer Alpha.
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 Engineer Alpha on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Engineer Alpha.
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 Engineer Alpha on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Engineer Alpha.
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 Engineer Alpha on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Engineer Alpha.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Engineer Alpha.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Engineer Alpha.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Engineer Alpha.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Engineer Alpha.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Engineer Alpha.
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 and Simulation with Engineer Alpha.
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!
Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Engineer Alpha.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
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Frequently asked about Engineer Alpha
- How much does Engineer Alpha cost?
- Engineer Alpha is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Engineer Alpha?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Engineer Alpha are FluxWerks, Demonsions: Industry, Voxelantis.
- Who developed Engineer Alpha?
- Engineer Alpha was developed by Aaron Worcester.
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