Games like Brave New Wonders
Below are 16 hand-picked alternatives to Brave New Wonders for fans of strategy, indie, simulation, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Brave New Wonders also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, free-to-play picks. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Brave New Wonders: Command a tribe of intelligent automatons that can interpret ANY customized instruction you give in Brave New Wonders, a factory automation adventure. Pioneer a post-apocalyptic world, explore ruins from the past & discover a mysterious reality as you make your automated factories thrive!
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Autonauts vs Piratebots
Top pick for Brave New Wonders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Brave New Wonders.
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
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Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
Second-strongest match for Brave New Wonders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Brave New Wonders.
A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.
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The Farmer Was Replaced
Third-strongest match for Brave New Wonders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Brave New Wonders.
Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
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Steel Artery: Train City Builder
Ranked #4 for Brave New Wonders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Brave New Wonders.
Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.
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GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena
Ranked #5 for Brave New Wonders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Brave New Wonders.
Assemble your robot squad, construct their AI and send them in the battle arena to see your strategy play out. Iterate, improve and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.
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Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
Ranked #6 for Brave New Wonders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Brave New Wonders.
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
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Autonauts
Ranked #7 for Brave New Wonders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Brave New Wonders.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
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ALL WILL FALL
Ranked #8 for Brave New Wonders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Brave New Wonders.
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Brave New Wonders.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Brave New Wonders.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Brave New Wonders.
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?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Brave New Wonders.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Brave New Wonders.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Brave New Wonders.
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.
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The Looker
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Brave New Wonders.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Brave New Wonders
- What games are most similar to Brave New Wonders?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Brave New Wonders are Autonauts vs Piratebots, Dream Engines: Nomad Cities, The Farmer Was Replaced.
- Who developed Brave New Wonders?
- Brave New Wonders was developed by City From Naught Inc..
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