Games like Exark
If Exark is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bermuda Bastion, Havenrail and SkyShard: City Battler — 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.
Bermuda Bastion
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Top pick 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.
Havenrail
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Second-strongest match 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?
SkyShard: City Battler
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Third-strongest match 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.
Outlaw Raiders
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Ranked #4 for Exark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Exark.
Lead your outlaw crew on raids to rob, steal, and fight for riches. Build up your camp and recruit more outlaws so you can become the ultimate outlaw.
Launch!
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Ranked #5 for Exark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Exark.
A roguelike strategy game about aircraft carrier deck operations. Plan your flight deck, manage aircraft as cards, organize strike waves, maintain air superiority, and keep your damaged deck running under pressure. Launching aircraft is only half the battle. The real challenge is getting them back.
Steel Artery: Train City Builder
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Ranked #6 for Exark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Exark.
Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.
Frostliner
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Ranked #7 for Exark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Exark.
The moon shattered. The world froze. Take command of a nomadic train city hurtling through a war-ravaged frozen wasteland. In this survival city builder on rails, gather survivors, scavenge resources, and do whatever it takes to keep the engine running and stay ahead of the frost.
TownsFolk
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Ranked #8 for Exark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Exark.
A survival strategy game where every choice shapes your frontier's destiny. Lead your people into an uncharted world as they rebuild after ruin, endure harsh challenges, and carve out a thriving settlement. Manage scarce resources, face dynamic events, and never forget to pay tribute to the kingdom.
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. 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?
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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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
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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
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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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Exark.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Frequently asked about Exark
- What games are most similar to Exark?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Exark are Bermuda Bastion, Havenrail, SkyShard: City Battler.
- 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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