Co-op games like Away Team
Below are 8 cooperative Steam games similar to Away Team, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. Every pick supports cooperative play — online co-op, LAN co-op, or shared/split-screen — so you can play with friends right out of the box. imho.run pulls from the same Steam category data Valve uses internally, so "Co-op" here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Factoriant
Online Co-op alternative to Away Team — playable with friends. Shares Indie with Away Team.
Factoriant is a factory builder where you construct an underground ant factory. As a queen ant, dig tunnels, carry food, and hatch worker ants to automate your production. Defend your nest from threats like birds and humans, and build a subterranean ant colony.
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Starstack
Online Co-op alternative to Away Team — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Simulation with Away Team.
Build an automated planetary factory, design modular warships, then risk them in tactical space expeditions for rare technology and resources. Push deeper for greater rewards—or return home alive and expand your factory. The factory powers the ship; the ship unlocks the factory.
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Moose Builders
Online Co-op alternative to Away Team — playable with friends. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Away Team.
Dig sand with a shovel and process into iron, silicon and more. Craft and merge better tools and machines to build solar panels to power them. Research new machines to automate everything in multi-story factories. Play alone or with friends to survive in the desert and turn it into a solar farm.
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Kardaviik
Online Co-op alternative to Away Team — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Simulation with Away Team.
Kardaviik is a 3D factory automation game set in a voxel asteroid belt. Your mission: harness energy, ascend the Kardashev Scale, and save Earth. Conquer the expansive procedurally generated belt by harvesting resources and extracting fuel, and build your ultimate space factory!
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Planet Gemini
Online Co-op alternative to Away Team — playable with friends. Shares Indie with Away Team.
Planet Gemini is a factory-building and tower defense game. After crash-landing on two planets during an interdimensional journey, fend off waves of enemies and research a portal to survive.
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CircuitVeil
Online Co-op alternative to Away Team — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Simulation with Away Team.
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
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Belts of Iron
Online Co-op alternative to Away Team — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Simulation with Away Team.
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
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Mycelium Conquest: Mitosis
Online Co-op alternative to Away Team — playable with friends. Shares Indie and Simulation with Away Team.
A free co-op automation game where you and up to 3 friends grow a living mycelial network across an alien planet. Consume local creatures, build biological production chains, and evolve from a tiny spore into a cosmic entity together.