Games like Engine Room
If Engine Room is your kind of game, the closest matches are Out There: Oceans of Time, Out There: Ω Edition and Void War — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Engine Room: Fight your way through hostile space while managing a fragile ship from its heart - the Engine Room. Retreat to upgrade the ship or push your luck further into enemy territory for better rewards - or maybe get blown to pieces! Fight bosses, balance power, and manage supplies to stay alive!
Players who liked Engine Room also play
Steam players who put hours into Engine Room 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.
Out There: Oceans of Time
WHY THIS
Top pick for Engine Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Engine Room.
Out There: Oceans of Time is a space exploration game that puts you at the helm of an interstellar mission of discovery spanning a vast and vibrant cosmos.
Out There: Ω Edition
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Engine Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Engine Room.
Out There is an award-winning space exploration game blending roguelike, resource management and interactive fiction.
Void War
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Engine Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Engine Room.
Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.
Shortest Trip to Earth
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Ranked #4 for Engine Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Engine Room.
Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.
Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition
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Ranked #5 for Engine Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Engine Room.
Hyperjump into the dark recesses of space with Genesis Alpha One - a roguelike FPS where you must build, maintain and navigate your ship through a galaxy filled with hostile alien and human threats. Explore, create and survive the militarized space race in order to secure humanity’s future.
Stellar Orphans
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Ranked #6 for Engine Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Engine Room.
"Explore 'Stellar Orphans', a captivating deck-building game where every choice determines the fate of your crew lost in infinite space. Forge alliances, manage resources, and resolve crises to guide your 'Stellar Orphans' to survival. Ready to defy the stars?"
Void Bastards
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Ranked #7 for Engine Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Engine Room.
Inspired by BioShock and System Shock 2, Void Bastards is a revolutionary new strategy-shooter that will test your wits as well as exercise your aim. Can you lead the misfit prisoners of the Void Ark through the derelict spaceships and myriad dangers of the Sargasso Nebula?
Heat Signature
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Ranked #8 for Engine Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Engine Room.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Engine Room at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Engine Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Engine Room.
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
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Priced ~63% under Engine Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Engine Room.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~53% under Engine Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Engine Room.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Engine Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Engine Room.
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
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Priced ~81% under Engine Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Engine Room.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Engine Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Engine Room.
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!
A Short Hike
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Priced ~50% under Engine Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Engine Room.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~63% under Engine Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Engine Room.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
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. Shares Indie with Engine Room.
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!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Engine Room.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Engine Room.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Engine Room.
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.
erdetspill
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Engine Room.
Bestefar vil ha 2 is. Du må skaffe de. Det viser seg å være mer komplisert enn du trodde. Et absurd førstepersons-eventyrspill der du navigerer norsk byråkrati, snakker med rare folk og løser meningsløse oppdrag - i en liten norsk bygd.
Hog Hunter 2021
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Engine Room.
Hog hunter is a short atmospheric game about catching hogs out in the wild, be careful though not everything in the woods is safe...
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Frequently asked about Engine Room
- How much does Engine Room cost?
- Engine Room is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Engine Room?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Engine Room are Out There: Oceans of Time, Out There: Ω Edition, Void War.
- Who developed Engine Room?
- Engine Room was developed by Nial Petzold.
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 Engine Room.
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