Games like Machine Mind
If Machine Mind is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Riftbreaker, Isolation Edge and Gateworlds — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill 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 Machine Mind: Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!
Players who liked Machine Mind also play
Steam players who put hours into Machine Mind 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 Riftbreaker
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense and base building with Machine Mind.
Top pick for Machine Mind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Machine Mind.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Isolation Edge
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Machine Mind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Machine Mind.
Isolation Edge is a hardcore single-player survival game set in a desolate world reclaimed by zombies. Traverse dangerous zones to scavenge, craft gear, and build your fortress to endure the relentless hordes. The past is lost, but on this isolated edge, every breath is a victory worth fighting for.
Gateworlds
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Machine Mind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Machine Mind.
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
KingFish
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Machine Mind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Machine Mind.
A 2-player asymmetric co-op game where a King and a giant Fish, a living island, build a city, travel between islands, and defend their kingdom together. One plans from above. The other fights on the ground. Together they stand.
Emberhaven
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Machine Mind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Machine Mind.
Survive in a procedurally generated fantasy world overrun by creeping corruption. Build impenetrable strongholds, tend your farms, forge deadly weapons, and fend off hordes of mutated abominations to defend your last sanctuary.
A Dungeon Is You
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Machine Mind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Machine Mind.
You died and got reincarnated as a dungeon core! Grow your dungeon, summon minions to defend you and conquer the world. A Dungeon Is You is a modern incremental dungeon management game. With a sprinkle of tower defense and rpg.
Settletopia
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Machine Mind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Machine Mind.
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Dwarf Things
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Ranked #8 for Machine Mind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Machine Mind.
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Machine Mind at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Machine Mind on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Machine Mind.
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 ~69% under Machine Mind on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Machine Mind.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Machine Mind on Steam right now. Shares Action with Machine Mind.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Machine Mind on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Machine Mind.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Machine Mind on Steam right now. Shares Action with Machine Mind.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~53% under Machine Mind on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Machine Mind.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~61% under Machine Mind on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Machine Mind.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Machine Mind on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Machine Mind.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Machine Mind.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Machine Mind.
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!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Machine Mind.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Machine Mind.
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Machine Mind.
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.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Machine Mind.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Machine Mind.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Machine Mind.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
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Frequently asked about Machine Mind
- Does Machine Mind run on Steam Deck?
- Machine Mind 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 Machine Mind cost?
- Machine Mind is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Machine Mind?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Machine Mind are The Riftbreaker, Isolation Edge, Gateworlds.
- Who developed Machine Mind?
- Machine Mind was developed by Chudo-Yudo Games and published by Targem Games.
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