Games like The Rift Machine
If The Rift Machine is your kind of game, the closest matches are UFO98, Ai Empire: Idle Clicker and Man in the Mocha — 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 The Rift Machine: The Rift Machine is an incremental game where you extract resources from inter-dimensional anomalies. Build modular defenses, research advanced technology, automate complex systems, and scale your operation into an unstoppable anomaly-harvesting engine.
Players who liked The Rift Machine also play
Steam players who put hours into The Rift Machine 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.
UFO98
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Top pick for The Rift Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Rift Machine.
Defy the government, leak top-secret alien telemetry, and wake up the world… inside an isolated Win98 workstation.
Ai Empire: Idle Clicker
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Second-strongest match for The Rift Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Rift Machine.
This feature-rich idle clicker game lets you experience the thrilling journey from a garage startup to a global AI powerhouse that reshapes the world.
Man in the Mocha
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Third-strongest match for The Rift Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Rift Machine.
An active incremental game where you own a coffee shop, but your hidden agenda is to hack the customers who connect to your WiFi. Buy upgrades and grow your business!
Side Shop Simulator
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Ranked #4 for The Rift Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Rift Machine.
A cozy idle shop-sim that can sit in the corner of your screen while you work or play. Stock products, upgrade your tools, and expand your business comfortably from your desktop!
Human: Profit
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Ranked #5 for The Rift Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Rift Machine.
An accurate depiction of our world, baked into a short, classic incremental game. Take over Grandpa's farm, rebuild the town, and do whatever it takes to succeed. Also rabbits.
Fellwood
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Ranked #6 for The Rift Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Rift Machine.
Build a wild fantasy lumber empire that bombards a forest across the valley with axes, ballistas, cannons, and magic. Harvest flying logs, stack absurd upgrades, and automate your way to unstoppable woodcutting power.
Galactic Overthrow
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Ranked #7 for The Rift Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Rift Machine.
Build a massive galactic empire and conquer many galaxies in this incremental game of space conquest. Manage resources, expand your reach, and grow your influence with a casual spin on a 4x theme.
Infinite Ruins
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Ranked #8 for The Rift Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Rift Machine.
An incremental mining game where you manage golems, destroy blocks, unlock upgrades, and descend infinitely in search of ever more valuable resources.
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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 and Simulation with The Rift Machine.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Rift Machine.
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.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Rift Machine.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Rift Machine.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Rift Machine.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Rift Machine.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Rift Machine.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about The Rift Machine
- What games are most similar to The Rift Machine?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Rift Machine are UFO98, Ai Empire: Idle Clicker, Man in the Mocha.
- Who developed The Rift Machine?
- The Rift Machine was developed by Mechayaan.
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 The Rift Machine.
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