Games like Lifecraft
If Lifecraft is your kind of game, the closest matches are Total Factory, Sapiens and Learning Factory — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cellular expansion via manufacturing, real world biochemistry mechanics and atmospheric. 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 Lifecraft: Survive and evolve as an organism with this simulation game in which you will literally start as a single cell and manage and organize all its functions to a fully fledged system! Assemble, breathe, eat, fight threats, produce energy, grow, anything is possible!
Players who liked Lifecraft also play
Steam players who put hours into Lifecraft 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.
Total Factory
WHY THIS
Top pick for Lifecraft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lifecraft.
You are a robot with unrealistically advanced artificial intelligence on a previously unknown planet, people created you for one single purpose - to ensure the automatic production of the necessary resources and their dispatch. It would seem that what could go wrong?
Sapiens
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Lifecraft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lifecraft.
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Learning Factory
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Lifecraft.
Third-strongest match for Lifecraft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lifecraft.
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
InfraSpace
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Lifecraft.
Ranked #4 for Lifecraft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lifecraft.
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Lifecraft.
Ranked #5 for Lifecraft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lifecraft.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Planetary Life
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lifecraft.
Ranked #6 for Lifecraft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lifecraft.
Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilizations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!
Havendock
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Lifecraft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lifecraft.
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
GolfTopia
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Lifecraft.
Ranked #8 for Lifecraft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lifecraft.
DESIGN, BUILD and MANAGE your own futuristic golf course. Keep 200 persistent visitors fed, hydrated, and happy. Defend your creation from a growing infestation of weeds with robotic workers and defensive turrets. Evolve your course into a mega resort where nobody wants to go home, EVER!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Lifecraft
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Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Lifecraft.
Reviewers of Lifecraft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Lifecraft.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Lifecraft.
Reviewers of Lifecraft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lifecraft.
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!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Lifecraft.
Reviewers of Lifecraft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lifecraft.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Dyson Sphere Program
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Lifecraft.
Reviewers of Lifecraft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lifecraft.
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Captain of Industry
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Lifecraft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lifecraft.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lifecraft at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under Lifecraft on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Lifecraft.
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 ~57% under Lifecraft on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Lifecraft.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Lifecraft on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Lifecraft.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Lifecraft on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Lifecraft.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Lifecraft on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Lifecraft.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Lifecraft on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Lifecraft.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Lifecraft on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Lifecraft.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~73% under Lifecraft on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Lifecraft.
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!
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 Simulation with Lifecraft.
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?
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Lifecraft.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Lifecraft.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Lifecraft.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Lifecraft.
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 Simulation with Lifecraft.
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!
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Frequently asked about Lifecraft
- Does Lifecraft run on Steam Deck?
- Lifecraft 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 Lifecraft cost?
- Lifecraft is listed on Steam at 22.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Lifecraft?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lifecraft are Total Factory, Sapiens, Learning Factory.
- Who developed Lifecraft?
- Lifecraft was developed by Pixbits.
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 Lifecraft.
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