IMHO.

Games like Machinika: Atlas

If Machinika: Atlas is your kind of game, the closest matches are Machinika: Museum, Darkstone Bay and Estelaroid: Escape Room — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its achievement hunting for completionists, beautiful alien art design and atmospheric. 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 Machinika: Atlas: Machinika: Atlas is an indie puzzle game and is the direct sequel to Machinika: Museum, you play as a museum researcher who just land on Atlas. Will you unravel the mysteries of the alien vessel? Solve cryptic puzzles to find out what happened!

2024IndieAdventureCasual11.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Littlefield Studio
Machinika: Atlas — Steam game cover
Players highlight
Achievement hunting for completionistsAlien art style immerses playersBeautiful alien art designAtmosphericChallengingContemplative

Players who liked Machinika: Atlas also play

Steam players who put hours into Machinika: Atlas 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.

  1. Machinika: Museum

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Machinika: Atlas.

    Top pick for Machinika: Atlas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Machinika: Atlas.

    Welcome to the Museum! Machinika Museum is a mystery game where you discover beautiful and mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins in an atmospheric galaxy-spanning 3D puzzle game. Will you be able to understand their stories and discover what happened to their previous owner?

    2021IndieAdventureCasual7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Darkstone Bay

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Machinika: Atlas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Machinika: Atlas.

    A shipwreck has been hidden on this island for 300 years. Nobody has found it. You arrive at Darkstone Bay determined to change that. Cross the island by solving ancient puzzles, navigate rocky beaches, caves and dense jungles in an escape room inspired adventure. Will you be the one to find it?

    2026IndieAdventureCasual6.29 USDSteam ↗
  3. Estelaroid: Escape Room

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Machinika: Atlas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Machinika: Atlas.

    You are in a spaceship, alone. The crew disappeared, and the ship quickly approaches a black hole. In this science fiction Escape Room, you must put your wits to the test and thus repair your spaceship before being trapped forever in the universe.

    2023IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Time Trap 2 - Search and Find Objects Game - Hidden Pictures

    WHY THIS

    Shares hint system and a mysterious mood with Machinika: Atlas.

    Ranked #4 for Machinika: Atlas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Machinika: Atlas.

    Explore this post-apocalypse world in all-around locations! Immerse yourself into an unusual adventure, full of intrigue, fantastic creatures and mysterious temporal anomalies! The newest hidden object game.

    2021IndieAdventureCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Pyramids and Aliens: Escape Room

    WHY THIS

    Shares point and click, environmental puzzle solving and atmospheric with Machinika: Atlas.

    Ranked #5 for Machinika: Atlas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Machinika: Atlas.

    Embark on an archaeological adventure inside an ancient pyramid to find your missing mentor. As an intrepid explorer, solve puzzles, investigate clues, and unravel the pyramid's secrets. Spoiler: it was not built by humans!

    2024AdventureCasual12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Looking For Fael

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Machinika: Atlas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Machinika: Atlas.

    Hello, this is Fael... Listen, this is going to sound strange, but... I think I'm lost in the apartment. Right now... I... I don't know where I am. Can you come and help me?

    2026IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. Neoproxima

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and atmospheric with Machinika: Atlas.

    Ranked #7 for Machinika: Atlas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Machinika: Atlas.

    Investigating a time-loop during the Cold War, light years away from Earth. Neoproxima is a text-based adventure game that combines exploration and simple RPG and survival mechanics. Plan your next loop carefully, and go as far as possible before time catches up with you.

    2024IndieAdventureRPG12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Eyes of Ara

    WHY THIS

    Shares hidden object search and an atmospheric mood with Machinika: Atlas.

    Ranked #8 for Machinika: Atlas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Machinika: Atlas.

    Explore a vast, mysterious castle riddled with secret rooms and challenging puzzles in this award-winning puzzle adventure.

    2016StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Machinika: Atlas

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. The Room

    WHY THIS

    Shares hint system and an atmospheric mood with Machinika: Atlas.

    Reviewers of Machinika: Atlas cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Machinika: Atlas.

    A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.

    2014IndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The House of Da Vinci

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Machinika: Atlas.

    Reviewers of Machinika: Atlas cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Machinika: Atlas.

    Enter The House of Da Vinci, a new must-try 3D puzzle adventure game. Solve mechanical puzzles, discover hidden objects, escape from rooms and dive into the authentic atmosphere of the Renaissance. Use all your wits to find out what's behind your master's disappearance.

    2017IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Machinika: Museum

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Machinika: Atlas.

    Reviewers of Machinika: Atlas cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Machinika: Atlas.

    Welcome to the Museum! Machinika Museum is a mystery game where you discover beautiful and mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins in an atmospheric galaxy-spanning 3D puzzle game. Will you be able to understand their stories and discover what happened to their previous owner?

    2021IndieAdventureCasual7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Machinika: Atlas at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Machinika: Atlas on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Machinika: Atlas.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Machinika: Atlas on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Machinika: Atlas.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~48% under Machinika: Atlas on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Machinika: Atlas.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Machinika: Atlas on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Machinika: Atlas.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Machinika: Atlas on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Machinika: Atlas.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under Machinika: Atlas on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Machinika: Atlas.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Machinika: Atlas on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Machinika: Atlas.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. OneShot

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Machinika: Atlas on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Machinika: Atlas.

    OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.

    2016IndieAdventureCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Machinika: Atlas.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Machinika: Atlas.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. 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 Machinika: Atlas.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Machinika: Atlas.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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 Machinika: Atlas.

    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!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Machinika: Atlas.

    A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Machinika: Atlas.

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Machinika: Atlas.

    Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Machinika: Atlas

Does Machinika: Atlas run on Steam Deck?
Machinika: Atlas 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 Machinika: Atlas cost?
Machinika: Atlas is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Machinika: Atlas?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Machinika: Atlas are Machinika: Museum, Darkstone Bay, Estelaroid: Escape Room.
Who developed Machinika: Atlas?
Machinika: Atlas was developed by Littlefield Studio and published by Dear Villagers.

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 Machinika: Atlas.

For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.