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Games like Zapp

If Zapp is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Last Caretaker, Steel Artery: Train City Builder and My Drug Cartel — 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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About Zapp: Steampunk robots, drones and ... your airship zappeli? In ZAPP you play as a robot who tries to explore the dangerous unknowns. Work your way up from the deepest depths and conquer the skies. BUT be aware, you might not be welcome.

IndieAdventureSimulationEarly AccessWindows · Linuxby Seduck
Zapp — Steam game cover

Players who liked Zapp also play

Steam players who put hours into Zapp 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. The Last Caretaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure34.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Steel Artery: Train City Builder

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Zapp fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Zapp.

    Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation13.49 USDSteam ↗
  3. My Drug Cartel

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Zapp fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Zapp.

    A drug plantation management game with basebuilding, strategy and combat elements. Expand your plantation, hire workers, and plan new smuggling routes. But be ready to face a heavy response by law enforcement by hiring guards, buying weapons and building defences.

    2025StrategySimulationEarly Access24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Brave New Wonders

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Zapp fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Zapp.

    Command a tribe of intelligent automatons that can interpret ANY customized instruction you give in Brave New Wonders, a factory automation adventure. Pioneer a post-apocalyptic world, explore ruins from the past & discover a mysterious reality as you make your automated factories thrive!

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  5. Ecliptica

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Zapp fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Zapp.

    Ecliptica is a first-person open-world colony survival simulator with a fully dynamic economy. Set on a hostile alien planet, you'll found corporations, fight for resources, and build a sustainable future—or be wiped out by ruthless nature, politics, and competition.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  6. Wanderers' Outpost

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Zapp fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Zapp.

    A colony sim where dungeons sprout from the ground like mushrooms, but you're not the hero. You sell shovels to adventurers, send them to almost certain death, tax whatever loot they bring back, patch them up, then happily charge them for everything they need to do it all over again.

    2026SimulationEarly Access15.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Quiet Bruise

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Zapp fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Zapp.

    Play as dumb plushies trying to keep a collapsing factory alive in this tower defence factory automation game. Build chaotic production lines, fight off hordes of cats and crocs, survive your own terrible decisions and keep the factory running.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  8. Blossom: The Seed of Life

    WHY THIS

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

    Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.

    2026IndieAdventure13.59 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  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 Zapp.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. 93, Kuindzhi

    WHY THIS

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

    Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

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

    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!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Hello Neighbor Alpha 2

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.

    2019StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  8. Aircar

    WHY THIS

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

    A simple immersive flying game built for VR. Pilot an aircar through a futuristic cityscape.

    2019IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Zapp

What games are most similar to Zapp?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Zapp are The Last Caretaker, Steel Artery: Train City Builder, My Drug Cartel.
Who developed Zapp?
Zapp was developed by Seduck.

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 Zapp.

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