Games like The Time Machine
If The Time Machine is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Utility Room, Employee 925 and Mango — 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.
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Steam players who put hours into The Time 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.
The Utility Room
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Time Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Time Machine.
This VR Journey takes you to the 'behind the scenes' of the Universe. Beyond a door lies a barren landscape inhabited by strange rocky heads. Here, the maintenance and heavy lifting required keeps existence stable and temporal. You are a tourist. Don't do anything foolish.
Employee 925
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Time Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Time Machine.
Employee 925 is a short psychological horror game about compliance and the quiet erosion of self in the workplace.
Mango
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Time Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Time Machine.
A surrealist indie first-person adventure game based on art and derealization. Explore the idea of a mind losing its grasp with reality, as reality turns into a dream, and that dream turns into a nightmare.
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Time Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Time Machine.
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.
Manifold Garden
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Time Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Time Machine.
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.
Time Machine VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Time Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Time Machine.
You are a time traveller tasked with exploring the Jurassic era and the creatures that once ruled the prehistoric oceans. Use an array of advanced tech tools to track, examine, and discover the scientific secrets of mosasaurs, livyatans, and megalodons, among others!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Time Machine at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Time Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Time 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
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Time Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Time 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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Time Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Time 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
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Time Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Time Machine.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under The Time Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Time Machine.
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 ~68% under The Time Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Time Machine.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Time Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Time Machine.
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 ~47% under The Time Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Time Machine.
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.
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 Indie with The Time Machine.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Time Machine.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Time Machine.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Time Machine.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Time 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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Time Machine.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Time Machine.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Time Machine.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Frequently asked about The Time Machine
- Does The Time Machine work on Steam Deck?
- The Time Machine is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does The Time Machine cost?
- The Time Machine is listed on Steam at 9.34 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Time Machine?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Time Machine are The Utility Room, Employee 925, Mango.
- Who developed The Time Machine?
- The Time Machine was developed by Lionel Marsden.
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 The Time Machine.
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