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Games like Kardaviik

If Kardaviik is your kind of game, the closest matches are Main Sequence, Space and Moose Builders — 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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About Kardaviik: 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!

2026StrategyIndieSimulationWindows · macOS · Linuxby Vinyl Studios Pty Ltd
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Steam players who put hours into Kardaviik 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.

  1. Main Sequence

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Kardaviik fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kardaviik.

    Main Sequence is a first-person space-sim factory builder where you design spaceships, build space stations, and automate everything. Start with a single ship and grow to become an interstellar industrial empire as you leave your mark on the galaxy.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  2. Space

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Kardaviik fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kardaviik.

    Stranded on a hostile alien world, you must gather resources, craft tools, and automate production to survive. Build a base, fend off deadly wildlife, and uncover ancient secrets in this immersive sci-fi survival adventure. Will you conquer the planet or succumb to its perils?

    ActionIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  3. Moose Builders

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Kardaviik fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kardaviik.

    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.

    StrategyAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  4. SpaceCraft

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Kardaviik fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kardaviik.

    The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation26.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Satisfactory

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Kardaviik fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kardaviik.

    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!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Alchemy Factory

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Kardaviik fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kardaviik.

    Start small, team up with friends, and automate production with conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices. Stock your shop with potions, jewelry, and relics, complete commissions, and build an alchemy empire! Alchemy Factory 1.0 is out now with the Wagon Logistics System and revamped shopkeeping.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation14.39 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Factorio

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Kardaviik fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kardaviik.

    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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. StarRupture

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Kardaviik fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kardaviik.

    StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kardaviik.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kardaviik.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kardaviik.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kardaviik.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. Control, I'm Not Coming Back

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kardaviik.

    Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. OnlyCans: Thirst Date

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kardaviik.

    Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!

    2021IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. No Results Found

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kardaviik.

    Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Kardaviik

Does Kardaviik have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Kardaviik supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Kardaviik?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kardaviik are Main Sequence, Space, Moose Builders.
Who developed Kardaviik?
Kardaviik was developed by Vinyl Studios Pty Ltd.

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 Kardaviik.

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