Games like Exark
If Exark is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dice Factory, Bermuda Bastion and Cannon Keep — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Exark: Exark is a run-based engine builder where you command a gigantic ark-ship. Construct buildings, hire crew with unique skills, and exploit powerful synergies to survive your voyage to the rim of the world.
Players who liked Exark also play
Steam players who put hours into Exark 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.
Dice Factory
WHY THIS
Top pick for Exark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Exark.
Dice Factory is a Dice-Powered City Builder where every throw shapes your kingdom. Every die can become a building, resource or unit. Grow intricate production chains, recruit powerful armies, and defend your Castle against waves of enemies and epic bosses!
Bermuda Bastion
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Exark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Exark.
Survive 33 days in the heart of the Bermuda Triangle! Build triangular structures to defend against malevolent squares, pentagons, and other geometric monsters. In this chaotic city-builder roguelike, every mistake pulls your Bastion closer to the depths.
Cannon Keep
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Exark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Exark.
Build your city block by block and defeat waves of mechs in this tower defense roguelike! Combine powerful cannons with unique effects to survive the unforgiving wasteland and explore the underground to gather resources and find powerful relics.
Brews & Kings
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Exark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Exark.
A roguelike medieval city builder where your whole city feeds one sprawling brewing operation. Scout for rare ingredients and resources, raise the farms, mills, and workshops that keep it running, and supply the factions you want to win over. Kings rise or fall on the strength of your beer.
Havenrail
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Exark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Exark.
“The Last Train of Humanity” is a survival strategy game. Manage your train, oversee resources, and make tough decisions that determine the fate of your passengers. Will they survive the perilous journey?
Offshore Prophets
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Exark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Exark.
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
StrategySteam ↗Red Rocket Defencism
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Exark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Exark.
You, a military officer from our great autocratic motherland, must protect our precious rockets from the evil capitalist enemy in this revolutionary base building strategy game. Bribe! Surveil! Purge! Imbibe! The end justifies the means when you have to protect our invaluable rockets!
SkyShard: City Battler
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Exark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Exark.
City Building Auto Battler! Build your kingdom with powerful weapons, walls, houses, and endless synergies, then battle other players in asynchronous multiplayer, or overcome various solo challenges.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Exark at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Exark on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Exark.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Exark on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Exark.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Exark on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Exark.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Exark on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Exark.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under Exark on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Exark.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Exark on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Exark.
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...
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Exark on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Exark.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Exark on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Exark.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Exark.
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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Exark.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Exark.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Exark.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Exark.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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Frequently asked about Exark
- Does Exark run on Steam Deck?
- Exark 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 Exark cost?
- Exark is listed on Steam at 13.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Exark?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Exark are Dice Factory, Bermuda Bastion, Cannon Keep.
- Who developed Exark?
- Exark was developed by Robot Cat Limited and published by Goblinz Publishing.
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 Exark.
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