Games like Meer's: Escape
If Meer's: Escape is your kind of game, the closest matches are Surviving Mars: Relaunched, Timberborn and Havendock — picked from the ranked list below. 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.
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Surviving Mars: Relaunched
WHY THIS
Top pick for Meer's: Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Meer's: Escape.
The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Meer's: Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Meer's: Escape.
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.
Havendock
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Meer's: Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Meer's: Escape.
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.
Captain of Industry
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Meer's: Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Meer's: Escape.
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.
Land of the Vikings
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Meer's: Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Meer's: Escape.
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Wildmender
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Meer's: Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Meer's: Escape.
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
Prison Architect
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Ranked #7 for Meer's: Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Meer's: Escape.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Meer's: Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Meer's: Escape.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Meer's: Escape at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Meer's: Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Meer's: Escape.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Meer's: Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Meer's: Escape.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~63% under Meer's: Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Meer's: Escape.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Meer's: Escape on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Meer's: Escape.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Meer's: Escape on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Meer's: Escape.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Meer's: Escape on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Meer's: Escape.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Meer's: Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Meer's: Escape.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Meer's: Escape on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and RPG with Meer's: Escape.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Meer's: Escape.
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.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Meer's: Escape.
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 Adventure with Meer's: Escape.
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!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Meer's: Escape.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
DOGWALK
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Meer's: Escape.
Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Meer's: Escape.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Meer's: Escape.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
Supermarket Together
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Meer's: Escape.
The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!
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Frequently asked about Meer's: Escape
- How much does Meer's: Escape cost?
- Meer's: Escape is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Meer's: Escape?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Meer's: Escape are Surviving Mars: Relaunched, Timberborn, Havendock.
- Who developed Meer's: Escape?
- Meer's: Escape was developed by Meer's.
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