Games like What is in the Black Box?
If What is in the Black Box? is your kind of game, the closest matches are Krystals with A K, The Farmer Was Replaced and Singularity Echoes — 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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Players who liked What is in the Black Box? also play
Steam players who put hours into What is in the Black Box? 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.
Krystals with A K
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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?.
A relaxing construction game about mining an industrial quantity of crystal gems
The Farmer Was Replaced
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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?.
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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Third-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?.
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.
Tiny Hoops: Idle Shooter
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Ranked #4 for What is in the Black Box? fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Tiny Hoops is a relaxing idle basketball game you can play at the bottom of your screen while focusing on other tasks. Upgrade your character, watch the game unfold, or make a few shots whenever you want to speed up your progress.
Virtual Circuit Board
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Ranked #5 for What is in the Black Box? fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple monochrome circuits to complex and colorful computers. Play with digital logic in this sandbox-only experience.
Bytecollector
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Ranked #6 for What is in the Black Box? fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Bytecollector is a short, incremental game where you draw loops to collect bytes. Spend them on a skill tree with over 40 upgrades to unlock new mechanics.
Idle Circles
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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?.
Relax and watch your marbles fill circle after circle. Make strategic improvements then unwind in this retro futurist, idle arcade game.
Node Factory
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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?.
Dive into the world of machine learning! Node Factory is a node-based automation incremental game where you harvest resources and train neural networks. Manage your economy, optimize your grid, and automate your way to a multi-Centillion dollar tech empire.
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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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!
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!
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 Krystals with A K, The Farmer Was Replaced, Singularity Echoes.
- Who developed What is in the Black Box??
- What is in the Black Box? was developed by SQRT Games.
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 What is in the Black Box?.
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