Games like Night Machine
If Night Machine is your kind of game, the closest matches are Whispers of Elenrod, Random Dragons and Waystones — 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 Night Machine: We’ve just learned the moon is a giant alien doomsday factory…who knew! Pilot your ship deep inside and destroy it once and for all, using only cards in this real-time roguelike deckbuilder. Build your deck, adapt on the fly and play your best combos right before time runs out!
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Steam players who put hours into Night 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.
Whispers of Elenrod
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Top pick for Night Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Night Machine.
Deck-building meets strategy map exploration. Craft powerful decks. Discover mysterious artifacts on procedurally generated maps. Defeat enemies in turn-based combat and gain experience to evolve your hero. Create your best build…and find all the Whispers of Elenrod!
Random Dragons
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Second-strongest match for Night Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Night Machine.
A chance-based roguelike deckbuilder with silly, chaotic dragons. Spin the roulette wheel to multiply your card effects, manipulate the odds, and unleash ridiculous combo turns. Build a synergistic deck, outsmart RNG, and climb your way to the Boss Dragons.
Waystones
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Third-strongest match for Night Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Night Machine.
All the strategic depth of deckbuilding classics taken to the extreme! Manage combat on a tactical map, pursuing divine boons and avoiding the deadly spread of corruption in Waystones, a turn-based roguelike deckbuilder!
Into The Grid
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Ranked #4 for Night Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Night Machine.
Become a master hacker in this Cyberpunk Roguelike Deckbuilder. Explore the dangers of cyberspace and fight evil corporations. Build and upgrade a deck of powerful programs. Unlock perks and skills, and unleash digital hell on your enemies. Dive Into The Grid!
Northwind
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Ranked #5 for Night Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Night Machine.
Northwind is a monster-hunting roguelite deckbuilder with a tug-of-war combat twist, card crafting, and a mana management system inspired by Magic: The Gathering.
RogueJack21
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Ranked #6 for Night Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Night Machine.
RogueJack21 is a Blackjack-inspired deckbuilder where you build and upgrade your deck to battle your opponents. Navigate through procedurally generated casinos and take revenge on The House, the ruthless mafia ruling Noir City that stole everything from you.
Handmancers
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Ranked #7 for Night Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Night Machine.
Handmancers is a Rock, Paper, Scissors Roguelite deckbuilder with a first-person twist where clear tactical choices meet deck-building depth. Craft your deck, enhance your cards, equip tricky artifacts and face powerful enemies in strategic fights
Slay the Spire 2
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Ranked #8 for Night Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Night Machine.
The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Night Machine.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Night Machine.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Night 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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Night Machine.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Lab
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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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Night Machine.
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.
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Night Machine.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Night Machine.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Frequently asked about Night Machine
- What games are most similar to Night Machine?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Night Machine are Whispers of Elenrod, Random Dragons, Waystones.
- Who developed Night Machine?
- Night Machine was developed by Cooler Game Studios and published by Caketown Interactive.
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 Night Machine.
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