Games like Icaria
If Icaria is your kind of game, the closest matches are FOUNDRY, Orebound and Craftica — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Icaria: Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
Players who liked Icaria also play
Steam players who put hours into Icaria 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.
FOUNDRY
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Icaria.
Top pick for Icaria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Icaria.
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Orebound
WHY THIS
Shares automation, base building, factory builder and an atmospheric mood with Icaria.
Second-strongest match for Icaria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Icaria.
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Craftica
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Icaria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Icaria.
Craftica is an elegant block-based sandbox game with ultra high degrees of freedom for creative building. Here you can build smooth and beautiful architectures, or construct advanced devices and machineries such as computers, vehicles and robots. Try it out and start exploring your imaginations!
Autonauts
WHY THIS
Shares automation and a relaxing mood with Icaria.
Ranked #4 for Icaria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Icaria.
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.
Evospace
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Icaria.
Ranked #5 for Icaria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Icaria.
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Microtopia
WHY THIS
Shares automation, base building, automation and an atmospheric mood with Icaria.
Ranked #6 for Icaria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Icaria.
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Per Aspera
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Icaria.
Ranked #7 for Icaria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Icaria.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Icaria.
Ranked #8 for Icaria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Icaria.
TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Icaria
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Outworld Station
WHY THIS
Shares automation, base building, indie and an atmospheric mood with Icaria.
Reviewers of Icaria cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Icaria.
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Icaria.
Reviewers of Icaria cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Icaria.
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.
Autonauts
WHY THIS
Shares automation and a relaxing mood with Icaria.
Reviewers of Icaria cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Icaria.
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.
Desynced
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Icaria cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Icaria.
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with Icaria.
Reviewers of Icaria cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Icaria.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Icaria at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Icaria on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Icaria.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Icaria on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Icaria.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Icaria on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Icaria.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Icaria on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Icaria.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Icaria on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Icaria.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Icaria on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Icaria.
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.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Icaria on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Icaria.
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.
FTL: Faster Than Light
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Icaria on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Icaria.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Simulation with Icaria.
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.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
SCP – Containment Breach
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
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Frequently asked about Icaria
- Does Icaria run on Steam Deck?
- Icaria 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 Icaria cost?
- Icaria is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Icaria?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Icaria are FOUNDRY, Orebound, Craftica.
- Who developed Icaria?
- Icaria was developed by Blindsight Games LLC.
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