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Games like Homebrew - Patent Unknown

If Homebrew - Patent Unknown is your kind of game, the closest matches are Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game, ALIGNMENT : An Engineering Odyssey and CAR TUNE: Project — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its active modding community, equation based part tuning and contemplative. 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 Homebrew - Patent Unknown: Unleash your creativity and craft anything from flying cars to jet-powered toilets.Fair warning: there's a learning curve. But once you've got it, the sky's the limit for your creations!While active development is paused, we focus preserving the game and keeping it accessible.

2014ActionSportsIndieAdventureSimulationEarly Access14.99 USDWindowsby Copybugpaste
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Players who liked Homebrew - Patent Unknown also play

Steam players who put hours into Homebrew - Patent Unknown 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. Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    Top pick for Homebrew - Patent Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    Make your dream cars a reality with Automation’s unparalleled car and engine design tools. Gain a competitive edge through smart engineering and business decisions to help you build an automotive empire. Will you become an industry leader, or just a footnote in automotive history?

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. ALIGNMENT : An Engineering Odyssey

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Homebrew - Patent Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    A professional-grade road design sim built on real-world maps. Recreate complex interchanges and iconic highways 1:1, engineer custom solutions with real workflows, and drive what you design.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. CAR TUNE: Project

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    Third-strongest match for Homebrew - Patent Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    CAR TUNE: Project is a detailed car tuning simulator where every bolt, screw, and gear matters. Build your dream machine, fine-tune every parameter, and test it on the track.

    2020IndieSimulationEarly Access18.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Diesel Brothers: Truck Building Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    Ranked #4 for Homebrew - Patent Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    Enter the World of Diesel! Grab some of the biggest four-wheelers. Trick these trucks, flip them for a profit or race against your friends online. This can go hard or this can go diesel!

    2019SimulationDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Rally Mechanic Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Homebrew - Patent Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    Take your opportunity as a real Rally Mechanic. Overcome all the obstacles that the reckless racers throw at you - including unrepairable parts, time limitations and more. Take good care of your rally cars so that on the next special they will perform as good as if they came out of the factory.

    2025SportsIndieSimulation17.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Space Ribbon - Slipstream to the Extreme

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Homebrew - Patent Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    The ultimate slipstream racer! Chase down a giant space beast and race to enter the creature’s mouth as it spews out a series of psychedelic racetracks. Slipstream to the extreme! Modify your junked up classic car and race to the finish line as you compete to become the intergalactic winner.

    2019ActionSportsIndie3.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Car Detailing Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Homebrew - Patent Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    Car Detailing Simulator, you get a chance to renew any car and restore its splendor at the request of demanding customers! A nice and well-groomed vehicle can be the pride of every human being! Clean, polish and marvel at your creations in this highly realistic game where every little detail counts!

    2022IndieSimulationCasual15.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Motor Town: Behind The Wheel

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Homebrew - Patent Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    Enjoy realistic driving in the open world. Relaxing cargo deliveries or driving buses and taxis will give you enough money to buy new cars and parts. You can test your driving skills at the race track. It's all about pure driving pleasure!

    2021IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Homebrew - Patent Unknown

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Scrap Mechanic

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Homebrew - Patent Unknown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

    2016ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Kerbal Space Program

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Homebrew - Patent Unknown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

    2015IndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Brick Rigs

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Homebrew - Patent Unknown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    Build your own vehicles or download one of the more than 200,000 creations already uploaded to the Workshop and experience the dynamic driving and destruction physics of Brick Rigs!

    2023Simulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Stormworks: Build and Rescue

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Homebrew - Patent Unknown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.

    2020Simulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. GearBlocks

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    Reviewers of Homebrew - Patent Unknown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    Explore a world of creative building, interactive machines, and gears - lots of gears. Build all things mechanical: cars, trucks, cranes, tanks, gearboxes, engines, clocks, anything you can think of. Test your creations to destruction in challenging scenarios, and share them in the workshop!

    2023IndieSimulationEarly Access14.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Homebrew - Patent Unknown at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Homebrew - Patent Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Homebrew - Patent Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Homebrew - Patent Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Homebrew - Patent Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Homebrew - Patent Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Action with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Homebrew - Patent Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Homebrew - Patent Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Homebrew - Patent Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    The epic story of evolution, technology, humanity, and dinosaurs is yours to tap.

    2021SimulationFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. AirMech

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    AirMech® Strike is a fast paced Action-RTS game that can be played solo, coop, or competitively online. Earn Kudos and Experience in battle and unlock a wide collection of AirMechs and Units while you practice the perfect strategy to emerge victorious!

    2018ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  4. Upload Labs

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect

    2025SimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Screw Drivers

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    Crazy physics and high-speed races! Craft vehicles cleverly by combining building blocks and mechanical parts to create powerful drivetrains. Unlock new parts, race for the gold, and challenge your friends in multiplayer.

    2024ActionIndieSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Planet Crafter: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

    Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.

    2021AdventureFreeSteam ↗
  7. Istrolid

    WHY THIS

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

    In Istrolid you design your own unique spaceships from a large number of parts to fit your strategy and play style. With no set units or factions you are free to create a fleet where each ship has its own balanced strengths and weaknesses, from basic fighters and bombers to hulking battleships and speedy destroyers.

    2016StrategyIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue

    WHY THIS

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

    Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Homebrew - Patent Unknown

How much does Homebrew - Patent Unknown cost?
Homebrew - Patent Unknown is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Homebrew - Patent Unknown have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Homebrew - Patent Unknown supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
What games are most similar to Homebrew - Patent Unknown?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Homebrew - Patent Unknown are Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game, ALIGNMENT : An Engineering Odyssey, CAR TUNE: Project.
Who developed Homebrew - Patent Unknown?
Homebrew - Patent Unknown was developed by Copybugpaste.

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 Homebrew - Patent Unknown.

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