Games like An Engineer and the Great Machine
If An Engineer and the Great Machine is your kind of game, the closest matches are Labeloop, Reclaimer and I.T. Never Ends — 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.
Get personalized picks →About An Engineer and the Great Machine: You, a new engineer at SKP, have become entangled in the project known as ‘The Great Machine’, stakes are high and instructions unclear. Design systems, decipher the red tape, and unravel the plot without falling prey to the bureaucracy.
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Steam players who put hours into An Engineer and the Great Machine 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.
Labeloop
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Top pick for An Engineer and the Great Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
Labeloop is a darkly comic incremental clicker about a debt you can't escape. Slap labels on the Company's bottles, hit your nightly rent, and claw your way out of an ever-deeper hole. Clear your debt and they'll thank you with a bullet — then bill you for the funeral.
Reclaimer
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Second-strongest match for An Engineer and the Great Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
Become a class war folk hero in the capitalist hellscape of tomorrow, slashing through hordes of biomechanical robots and connecting the evidence in your quest to reclaim your humanity and save the world.
I.T. Never Ends
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Third-strongest match for An Engineer and the Great Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
The printer is bleeding, the Wi-Fi is haunted, and Ticket #666 just came in. As the latest hire for a company run by cosmic horrors, your job is simple: Swipe to survive. Make binary decisions to survive the night shift in this dark comedy desktop simulator. I.T truly never ends.
Vertiginous Golf
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Ranked #4 for An Engineer and the Great Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
Vertiginous Golf is a dystopian steam punk mini golf adventure game set in the skies above an alternate world where life on the ground is enveloped in permanent smog, constant darkness and never-ending rain.
Dystopicon
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Ranked #5 for An Engineer and the Great Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
An uncomfortable dystopian time-management game where your job is watching TV to earn money and buy services to survive after robots replace humans at work. Choose to be a good citizen or a rebel. But beware! Curiosity has a price in this dystopian life simulator.
BioShock Infinite
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Ranked #6 for An Engineer and the Great Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Indebted to the wrong people, with his life on the line, veteran of the U.S. Cavalry and now hired gun, Booker DeWitt has only one opportunity to wipe his slate clean. He must rescue Elizabeth, a mysterious girl imprisoned since childhood and locked up in the flying city of Columbia.
The Restricted Index
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Ranked #7 for An Engineer and the Great Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
You are Britain’s last librarian. Investigate a world of censorship and secrets in this first-person mystery puzzle game. Analyse clues, deduce which books each patron needs, uncover forbidden stories and decide what knowledge survives.
Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop
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Ranked #8 for An Engineer and the Great Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
Come on down to Uncle Chop’s Rocket Shop, for all your roguelite spaceship repair simulation needs! WARNING: Untested genre not suitable for people with tentacles for arms or an aversion to dying horrifically. Side effects include improved reading comprehension under pressure and a furry fetish.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below An Engineer and the Great Machine at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~69% under An Engineer and the Great Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~69% under An Engineer and the Great Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
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Priced ~50% under An Engineer and the Great Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~61% under An Engineer and the Great Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~50% under An Engineer and the Great Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~69% under An Engineer and the Great Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~69% under An Engineer and the Great Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
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Priced ~50% under An Engineer and the Great Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
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.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with An Engineer and the Great Machine.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about An Engineer and the Great Machine
- How much does An Engineer and the Great Machine cost?
- An Engineer and the Great Machine is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to An Engineer and the Great Machine?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside An Engineer and the Great Machine are Labeloop, Reclaimer, I.T. Never Ends.
- Who developed An Engineer and the Great Machine?
- An Engineer and the Great Machine was developed by Gentlegear Games and published by GENTLEGEAR GAMES.
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