Games like Nubby's Number Factory
If Nubby's Number Factory is your kind of game, the closest matches are Loaded Dice, Gamble Tower and Node Pit — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its absurd humor and charm, buildcrafting feels uniquely satisfying and challenging. 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 →Nubby's Number Factory is a physics-based strategy roguelite from MogDogBlog Productions released in 2025 for $4.99 USD. Players launch a spherical character down a pegboard to generate numbers in a plinko-style experience that combines item-combination mechanics with build-crafting and achievement-hunting. The game features endless mode, combo-based combat, and significant build variety across arcade-style sessions. Reviewers highlight the absurd humor and charm, noting that buildcrafting feels uniquely satisfying when chaining item combos for exponential score growth. Players describe the experience as hypnotic and nostalgic, with competitive high-score leaderboards and challenge modes encouraging pursuit of impossibly high numbers. The game is marked playable on Steam Deck and holds a 98% positive rating from 15,749 Steam reviews.
About Nubby's Number Factory: A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! But beware, if you fail to meet your number quota, the sun will explode.
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Loaded Dice
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Top pick for Nubby's Number Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
Wager. Survive. Profit. Throw your friends around and bet against them to show who's faster, better, and smarter in this fast action-strategy party game.
Gamble Tower
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Second-strongest match for Nubby's Number Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
Embark on a high-stakes journey in our roguelite deckbuilder! A place where every decision is a gamble, risk and reward intertwine to shape your odds. Delve into a dark fantasy world brought to life through mesmerizing 2D hand-painted art, where wacky characters and unpredictable challenges await.
Node Pit
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Third-strongest match for Nubby's Number Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
A rogue‑lite, gamble‑style puzzle where you launch catalysts like a Plinko shot inside a starship reactor, activating nodes to charge warp energy. Build powerful nodes through inheritance and card choices!
Balatro
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Shares build crafting, endless mode and a hypnotic mood with Nubby's Number Factory.
Ranked #4 for Nubby's Number Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Inscryption
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Shares a whimsical mood with Nubby's Number Factory.
Ranked #5 for Nubby's Number Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
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...
Dice With Death
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Shares combo based combat, roguelite progression, arcade style and a whimsical mood with Nubby's Number Factory.
Ranked #6 for Nubby's Number Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
Dice With Death is a Dicebuilding Roguelike – Unfortunately you have already died. Fortunately, Death is up for some friendly competition. Collect new dice and relics, create damage stacking combos, and even cheat Death himself to emerge victorious.
Dungeon Clawler
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Shares physics based movement, combo based combat, arcade style and a funny mood with Nubby's Number Factory.
Ranked #7 for Nubby's Number Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
Dungeon Clawler is a Roguelike Claw Machine Deckbuilder. Build your deck, grab weapons and items from the claw machine to battle enemies, discover powerful perks that create game-changing synergies and unleash crazy combos as you fight your way through the dungeon!
Slay the Spire
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Shares a challenging mood with Nubby's Number Factory.
Ranked #8 for Nubby's Number Factory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
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!
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Peggle Extreme
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Shares a whimsical mood with Nubby's Number Factory.
Reviewers of Nubby's Number Factory cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Peggle Extreme delivers fast-paced puzzle action that combines elements of pinball and pachinko to create a truly unique game experience. Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun, now exclusively themed with art and sounds from Half-Life: Episode 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2.
Poker Night at the Inventory (2010 Original Version)
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Shares a chill mood with Nubby's Number Factory.
Reviewers of Nubby's Number Factory cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Prepare for a different kind of poker night in a very different kind of club and play against familiar faces!
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Nubby's Number Factory.
Reviewers of Nubby's Number Factory cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Trails
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Reviewers of Nubby's Number Factory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
TRAILS is a cozy puzzle game in which you plot routes for floating sand ships. Deliver vital cargo to remote outposts - without collisions, dead ends, or backtracking. Every move counts in the wasteland.
Plinbo: Roguelike Plinko
WHY THIS
Shares combo based combat, build variety, arcade style and a chill mood with Nubby's Number Factory.
Reviewers of Nubby's Number Factory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
UPGRADE YOUR BALLS! Roguelike meets Plinko! Every choice is a strategy; every run is a unique challenge. Build your deck to tame the balls to your will. Take your chance, craft your fate, and cash in!
Pal Pachinko
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Shares meta progression, grindy and a hypnotic mood with Nubby's Number Factory.
Reviewers of Nubby's Number Factory cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Your job is boring. Pal Pachinko isn't. Park this idle game in the corner of your screen and watch your balls drop along with your productivity. It's the most efficient way to waste your time. Why focus on one thing when you can fail at two? It's small enough that your boss won't notice (probably).
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Nubby's Number Factory at current Steam store prices.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Nubby's Number Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Bejeweled® 3
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Priced ~80% under Nubby's Number Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~80% under Nubby's Number Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Majesty Gold HD
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Priced ~50% under Nubby's Number Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
The High Definition edition of Majesty Gold contains main game, the Northern Expansion Pack as well as 2 new quests and several other graphics and gameplay updates.Majesty is a Real-time strategy game with indirect control – your heroes have a will of their own!
Bomber Crew
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Priced ~52% under Nubby's Number Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
Chocks away! Bomber Crew is a strategic simulation game, where picking the right crew and keeping your bomber in tip top shape is the difference between completing your mission or losing it all! USAAF DLC NOW AVAILABLE! FLY THE ICONIC AMERICAN BOMBER!
Turmoil
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Priced ~48% under Nubby's Number Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
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Priced ~80% under Nubby's Number Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete, the latest offering in the Sid Meier's Civilization III franchise, provides gaming fans with Sid Meier's Civilization III, the highly-addictive journey of discovery.
Party Hard
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Priced ~60% under Nubby's Number Factory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares build crafting, endless mode and a hypnotic mood with Nubby's Number Factory.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Dice With Death
WHY THIS
Shares combo based combat, roguelite progression, arcade style and a whimsical mood with Nubby's Number Factory.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
Dice With Death is a Dicebuilding Roguelike – Unfortunately you have already died. Fortunately, Death is up for some friendly competition. Collect new dice and relics, create damage stacking combos, and even cheat Death himself to emerge victorious.
Dungeon Clawler
WHY THIS
Shares physics based movement, combo based combat, arcade style and a funny mood with Nubby's Number Factory.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
Dungeon Clawler is a Roguelike Claw Machine Deckbuilder. Build your deck, grab weapons and items from the claw machine to battle enemies, discover powerful perks that create game-changing synergies and unleash crazy combos as you fight your way through the dungeon!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Nubby's Number Factory.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Nubby's Number Factory.
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!
Frequently asked about Nubby's Number Factory
- Does Nubby's Number Factory run on Steam Deck?
- Nubby's Number Factory 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 Nubby's Number Factory cost?
- Nubby's Number Factory is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Nubby's Number Factory?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nubby's Number Factory are Loaded Dice, Gamble Tower, Node Pit.
- Who developed Nubby's Number Factory?
- Nubby's Number Factory was developed by MogDogBlog Productions.
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