Games like Crazy Machines: Golden Gears
If Crazy Machines: Golden Gears is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deckline, Mini Motorways and ISLANDERS: New Shores — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its lighthearted, contraption building and currency spending. 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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Players who liked Crazy Machines: Golden Gears also play
Steam players who put hours into Crazy Machines: Golden Gears 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.
Deckline
WHY THIS
Top pick for Crazy Machines: Golden Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
Deckline is an atmospheric war-horror card game. Out of ammo and encircled, you play one last game of Durak to distract from the inevitable. Experience the grit and dread of modern combat through the lens of a board game.
Mini Motorways
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Crazy Machines: Golden Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?
ISLANDERS: New Shores
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Crazy Machines: Golden Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
Welcome to ISLANDERS: New Shores. Build your island retreat in a calm, minimalist world with exciting new features that keep the classic charm while inspiring fresh creativity.
Quantum Conundrum
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Crazy Machines: Golden Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
Find and rescue your uncle by using his newest invention to work your way through a crazy complex mansion as you switch between dimensions and solve puzzles!
Tumblestone
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Crazy Machines: Golden Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
Tumblestone is the first original action-puzzle game of the past fifteen years -- completely reinventing the genre into a deep and cerebral puzzle solving experience that you won't forget.
I, Zombie
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Crazy Machines: Golden Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
Quite a different zombie game - this time YOU are the zombie! Command your infested comrades, fight your way to freedom and let the zombie kind dominate the world! Oh, and you're able to create your own scenarios!
Dungeon Hearts
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Crazy Machines: Golden Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
Dungeon Hearts fuses the strategy and pattern matching of puzzle games with the kinetic pace of action games. Align magical runes as they flow along the Fatestream to attack, defend, and conjure magic in frenetic battles against a bestiary of fantastic creatures out to use those same runes against you.
MouseCraft
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
Ranked #8 for Crazy Machines: Golden Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
Ever wondered what a cross between Tetris and Lemmings would look like? Well, wonder no more, 'cause... MouseCraft is here! MouseCraft is an A to B puzzle game where players help Schrödinger, the crazy cat scientist, in completing his mysterious, mice-powered invention.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Crazy Machines: Golden Gears at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Crazy Machines: Golden Gears on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Crazy Machines: Golden Gears on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Crazy Machines: Golden Gears on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Crazy Machines: Golden Gears on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Crazy Machines: Golden Gears on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Crazy Machines: Golden Gears on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Crazy Machines: Golden Gears on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Crazy Machines: Golden Gears on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Mini Motorways
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Casual with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?
ISLANDERS: New Shores
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Casual with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
Welcome to ISLANDERS: New Shores. Build your island retreat in a calm, minimalist world with exciting new features that keep the classic charm while inspiring fresh creativity.
Tumblestone
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Casual with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
Tumblestone is the first original action-puzzle game of the past fifteen years -- completely reinventing the genre into a deep and cerebral puzzle solving experience that you won't forget.
I, Zombie
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Casual with Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
Quite a different zombie game - this time YOU are the zombie! Command your infested comrades, fight your way to freedom and let the zombie kind dominate the world! Oh, and you're able to create your own scenarios!
Frequently asked about Crazy Machines: Golden Gears
- How much does Crazy Machines: Golden Gears cost?
- Crazy Machines: Golden Gears is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Crazy Machines: Golden Gears?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crazy Machines: Golden Gears are Deckline, Mini Motorways, ISLANDERS: New Shores.
- Who developed Crazy Machines: Golden Gears?
- Crazy Machines: Golden Gears was developed by FAKT Software Gmbh and published by Viva Media Inc.
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 Crazy Machines: Golden Gears.
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