Games like Cogs
If Cogs is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gizmos: Steampunk Nonograms, Gearplexed and Opus Magnum — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its interchangeable puzzle components, 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 Cogs: Cogs is a puzzle game where players build machines from sliding tiles. Players can choose from 50 levels and 3 gameplay modes. New puzzles are unlocked by building contraptions quickly and efficiently. Inventor Mode: Starting with simple puzzles, players are introduced to the widgets that are used to build machines gears, pipes,...
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Gizmos: Steampunk Nonograms
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Cogs.
Top pick for Cogs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Cogs.
Solve challenging nonograms (also known as picross, griddlers, etc.) to decipher a message from a distant planet!
Gearplexed
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cogs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Cogs.
Enjoy playing with gears? Gearplexed is a constructive problem-solving game with a variety of gear-based puzzles ranging from opening gates to building factories. Build gears to get the right amount of speed or torque to the target gears and be careful not to lock up your gear train.
Opus Magnum
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Cogs.
Third-strongest match for Cogs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cogs.
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
LIT: Bend the Light
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Cogs.
Ranked #4 for Cogs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Cogs.
Light, darkness and remarkable puzzles! Bend the light to your will in this award winning physics-based puzzle game. Feel like a renaissance engineer, build your own solutions to light puzzles, feel your brain grow and all of that within the beautiful and mysterious world of LIT.
TOK HARDCORE
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Cogs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Cogs.
TOK HARDCORE is a logical puzzle in which you need to connect all points with lines.
Nonograms
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Cogs.
Ranked #6 for Cogs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Cogs.
Nonograms is a relaxing puzzle game where you use logic and creativity. Your goal is to reveal hidden pictures by filling in specific grid cells, based on numerical clues provided for each row and column. The games in this genre are also known as Picross, Griddlers, Pic-a-Pix, Hanjie, etc.
Machinarium
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Cogs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cogs.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
Toki Tori
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Cogs.
Ranked #8 for Cogs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Cogs.
The gameplay in Toki Tori is a blend of two genres. While it looks like a platform game, it's a puzzle game at heart. To progress through the game, the player must pick up each egg in a level using a set number of tools.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cogs at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Cogs on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cogs.
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 ~50% under Cogs on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cogs.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Cogs on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cogs.
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 ~75% under Cogs on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cogs.
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 ~83% under Cogs on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Cogs.
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 ~50% under Cogs on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cogs.
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!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cogs on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cogs.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Cogs on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Cogs.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cogs.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Cogs.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Cogs.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cogs.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Cogs.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cogs.
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Frequently asked about Cogs
- Does Cogs run on Steam Deck?
- Cogs 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 Cogs cost?
- Cogs is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cogs?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cogs are Gizmos: Steampunk Nonograms, Gearplexed, Opus Magnum.
- Who developed Cogs?
- Cogs was developed by Lazy 8 Studios, https://lazy8studios.com.
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 Cogs.
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