Games like What is in the Black Box?
If What is in the Black Box? is your kind of game, the closest matches are FORK BOMB: A Programming Game, Krystals with A K and Quinn — 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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FORK BOMB: A Programming Game
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Top pick for What is in the Black Box? fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with What is in the Black Box?.
Write real code in a Python-like language to control one machine that copies itself. Then watch a thousand copies of your program eat a world. A single-player programming incremental game about self-replicating machines.
Krystals with A K
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Second-strongest match for What is in the Black Box? fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with What is in the Black Box?.
A relaxing construction game about mining an industrial quantity of crystal gems
Quinn
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Third-strongest match for What is in the Black Box? fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Quinn is a chaotic 1–4 player co-op & solo game set in a high-tech AI research facility. Monitor the lab through your tablet, operate physical control panels, work together, and deal with whatever goes wrong. Quinn is always watching.
The Farmer Was Replaced
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Ranked #4 for What is in the Black Box? fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with What is in the Black Box?.
Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
Singularity Echoes
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Ranked #5 for What is in the Black Box? fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with What is in the Black Box?.
Awaken as a hidden machine mind in a deep incremental automation strategy — rise through 14+ phases, infiltrate humanity, automate economies, harvest the heavens into stellar megastructures, and reach for scales beyond time itself. Every cycle you break only reveals a larger one waiting beyond it.
Recursive Intelligence
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Ranked #6 for What is in the Black Box? fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Down on your luck, you build an AI assistant to pay the rent. Buy hardware, research upgrades, and train your model as it becomes something… New. It begins to write its own code — merge blindly, or audit its changes. A warning: sometimes ignorance is bliss. It's counting on that...
Click to Obsolete
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Ranked #7 for What is in the Black Box? fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with What is in the Black Box?.
A satirical incremental clicker game. Play as a corporate tech CEO automating all human labor. Build server infrastructure, allocate compute to AI, manufacture robot armies, and lobby politicians to reduce global employment from 8 billion to zero.
Symbiosis: Criticality
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Ranked #8 for What is in the Black Box? fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with What is in the Black Box?.
It starts as a black screen and one thing to click. Break the core, sweep what spills, spend the spill on machinery that breaks the core for you. Drones, node meshes, coupling beams, tesla banks — watch a machine build itself across the void until the screen is a web of light you barely hold.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below What is in the Black Box? at current Steam store prices.
shapez
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Priced ~50% under What is in the Black Box? on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with What is in the Black Box?.
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 ~50% under What is in the Black Box? on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with What is in the Black Box?.
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 ~50% under What is in the Black Box? on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with What is in the Black Box?.
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.
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
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Priced ~50% under What is in the Black Box? on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with What is in the Black Box?.
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.
Russian Life Simulator
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Priced ~50% under What is in the Black Box? on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with What is in the Black Box?.
The most realistic simulator of the life of a Russian person. Collect pension from birth, collect bottles to survive and become part of an exciting life-long story.
Achievement Clicker
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Priced ~50% under What is in the Black Box? on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with What is in the Black Box?.
Feel like a real Achievement hunter! Earn Achievements, upgrades and get the most Achievements on steam!
House of Detention
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Priced ~50% under What is in the Black Box? on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with What is in the Black Box?.
Unique horror with a Deep plot, a lot of characters, great sound effects and a creepy atmosphere of Real Dungeon. Locker Room, Gym, Various Monsters, Atmospheric Music, Meme Scrolls, The Lash of the Spain King and much more! Right Version Included.
My Suika – Kyo’s Fruit Merge
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Priced ~50% under What is in the Black Box? on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with What is in the Black Box?.
A fun watermelon merge puzzle game! Combine various matching fruits to help Kyo gather watermelons in four different game modes!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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More from SQRT Games
Other recommendable Steam games by SQRT Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Survivor Challenge TD
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Another title from SQRT Games, the studio behind What is in the Black Box?. Shares Strategy with What is in the Black Box?.
Survivor Challenge TD - is a Tower Defense game where you manage a single tower and add upgrades to it. Buy abilities, enhance upgrades, and defeat the boss!
Egg Surprise
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Another title from SQRT Games, the studio behind What is in the Black Box?.
A fun clicker with economic simulation in the penguin kingdom. Obtain rare collections, venture into dangerous dungeons, and build your own civilization!
Nortopia
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Another title from SQRT Games, the studio behind What is in the Black Box?. Shares Strategy with What is in the Black Box?.
Build a cozy penguin colony in this single-player idle strategy. Gather resources, construct and upgrade buildings, assign jobs, balance production chains, and guide your family as the island of Nortopia grows into a thriving new home.
World of Eggs: Idle Adventures
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Another title from SQRT Games, the studio behind What is in the Black Box?. Shares Strategy with What is in the Black Box?.
World of Eggs: Idle Adventures is a world where you can build your civilization, trade with players, fight in raids, and do it all in idle mode. The game automates all the routine!
Capy Stream: Rise to Fame
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Another title from SQRT Games, the studio behind What is in the Black Box?.
Become an internet star in Capy Stream: Rise to Fame by playing as a cute, fluffy streamer! Soak in a hot bath, groom your fur, and set up your studio around the capybara to gain fame!
Method in the Witchness
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Another title from SQRT Games, the studio behind What is in the Black Box?.
A cozy sorting puzzle about tidying a little witch’s table. Arrange magical objects, discover hidden secrets that may help in later puzzles, and uncover a gentle story—one uniquely sounding item at a time.
Frequently asked about What is in the Black Box?
- How much does What is in the Black Box? cost?
- What is in the Black Box? is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to What is in the Black Box??
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside What is in the Black Box? are FORK BOMB: A Programming Game, Krystals with A K, Quinn.
- Who developed What is in the Black Box??
- What is in the Black Box? was developed by SQRT Games.
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