Games like FACEMINER
If FACEMINER is your kind of game, the closest matches are Execute, MMO98 and Military Incremental Complex — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its addictive resource management loop, ambient soundtrack is soothing and clean retro os aesthetic. 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 →FACEMINER is a 2025 indie clicker and simulation hybrid set in a dystopian 1999. Players build and manage a biometric data harvesting operation, progressing through checkpoints while balancing automation systems, economy management, and idle mechanics. The game features a clean retro operating system aesthetic and includes webcam integration as part of its surveillance theme. Players describe the experience as immersive and compelling, with an addictive resource management loop and a poignant narrative examining AI surveillance. Reviewers highlight the ambient soundtrack and atmospheric presentation as particularly effective. The game holds a 91 percent positive rating from over 1000 Steam reviews, is priced at $7.99, and runs in a playable state on Steam Deck.
About FACEMINER: Build a biometric data harvesting empire from scratch in FACEMINER, the hardcore thriller clicker set in 1999. Classify data, upgrade mining infrastructure, and scale up your A.I. surveillance empire to obscene ends in this creepy narrative-driven incremental management sim with a dystopian twist.
Players who liked FACEMINER also play
Steam players who put hours into FACEMINER 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.
Execute
WHY THIS
Shares automation, idle progression, retro and a dark mood with FACEMINER.
Top pick for FACEMINER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FACEMINER.
Kill everyone in the world with a guillotine… on a cursed Win98 desktop.
MMO98
WHY THIS
Shares automation, idle progression and retro with FACEMINER.
Second-strongest match for FACEMINER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with FACEMINER.
An incremental game where you go from small-scale MMO development studio up to global market domination. Improve your server infrastructure, address the technical challenges of running an MMO, release new games, and become the world's #1 MMO game studio.
Military Incremental Complex
WHY THIS
Shares automation, idle progression, indie and a dark mood with FACEMINER.
Third-strongest match for FACEMINER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with FACEMINER.
Make weapons, make money. An active incremental game where you amass as much money as you can by starting a Military Industrial Complex company. Produce multiple different weapons, research upgrades, manipulate the stock market, and lobby the government for favors.
Weapon Shop Decillionaire
WHY THIS
Shares clicker, idle progression and indie with FACEMINER.
Ranked #4 for FACEMINER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FACEMINER.
Weapon Shop Decillionaire is an idle game where weapons turn your dreams of wealth into reality. Build and sell equipment, use the profit to enhance it, while mastering strategic weapon placement on your shop's grid. It's time to become a decillionaire, one sword at a time!
Snakecremental
WHY THIS
Shares idle progression, procedural generation and retro with FACEMINER.
Ranked #5 for FACEMINER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with FACEMINER.
Snake, but with a skill tree
Cult Nation
WHY THIS
Shares automation, idle progression, dark humor and an atmospheric mood with FACEMINER.
Ranked #6 for FACEMINER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FACEMINER.
A short incremental game about sacrificing all your cult followers and collecting blood to awaken the devil.
IDLE BOSS RUSH
WHY THIS
Shares idle progression, resource management, indie and an atmospheric mood with FACEMINER.
Ranked #7 for FACEMINER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FACEMINER.
Slay giant bosses and turn the hollow wasteland into the almighty kingdom! Endlessly rewarding incremental game where you collect fountains of rare loot, unleash crazy combos and watch the monsters fall under your knees. Boss Rush that keeps on going when you're gone!
(the) Gnorp Apologue
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with FACEMINER.
Ranked #8 for FACEMINER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FACEMINER.
(the) Gnorp Apologue is the journey of the gnorps as you guide them towards their goal of delightfully excessive wealth accumulation.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below FACEMINER at current Steam store prices.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under FACEMINER on Steam right now. Shares Action with FACEMINER.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under FACEMINER on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with FACEMINER.
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 ~63% under FACEMINER on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with FACEMINER.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under FACEMINER on Steam right now. Shares Indie with FACEMINER.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under FACEMINER on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with FACEMINER.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under FACEMINER on Steam right now. Shares Indie with FACEMINER.
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 ~88% under FACEMINER on Steam right now. Shares Action with FACEMINER.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under FACEMINER on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with FACEMINER.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Free alternatives
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with FACEMINER.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with FACEMINER.
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 FACEMINER.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with FACEMINER.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 FACEMINER.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with FACEMINER.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with FACEMINER.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Execute
WHY THIS
Shares automation, idle progression, retro and a dark mood with FACEMINER.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with FACEMINER.
Kill everyone in the world with a guillotine… on a cursed Win98 desktop.
MMO98
WHY THIS
Shares automation, idle progression and retro with FACEMINER.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with FACEMINER.
An incremental game where you go from small-scale MMO development studio up to global market domination. Improve your server infrastructure, address the technical challenges of running an MMO, release new games, and become the world's #1 MMO game studio.
Snakecremental
WHY THIS
Shares idle progression, procedural generation and retro with FACEMINER.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with FACEMINER.
Snake, but with a skill tree
Frequently asked about FACEMINER
- Does FACEMINER run on Steam Deck?
- FACEMINER 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 FACEMINER cost?
- FACEMINER is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to FACEMINER?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside FACEMINER are Execute, MMO98, Military Incremental Complex.
- Who developed FACEMINER?
- FACEMINER was developed by Wristwork and published by Wristwork Ltd.
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