Games like Eco
If Eco is your kind of game, the closest matches are Railway Empire 2, 7 Days to Die and Stationeers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, immersive and collaborative economy. 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 →Eco is a 2018 indie simulation developed and published by Strange Loop Games, available at $29.99 USD. Players collaborate to build a functioning civilization from scratch, establishing economies, governance structures, and collective decision-making systems. The sandbox environment tasks the community with advancing technology while preserving the ecosystem to survive an incoming meteor. Players describe the experience as challenging and immersive, with reviewers highlighting the teaching-and-learning-through-gameplay approach as a distinctive hook. The massive multiplayer sandbox supports online cooperative play and runs at playable status on Steam Deck, holding an overall rating of 79% positive from over 6,500 Steam reviews.
About Eco: Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Players who liked Eco also play
Steam players who put hours into Eco 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.
Railway Empire 2
WHY THIS
Top pick for Eco fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Eco.
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Eco.
Second-strongest match for Eco fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Eco.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Stationeers
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Eco.
Third-strongest match for Eco fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Eco.
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Ylands
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Eco.
Ranked #4 for Eco fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
Life is Feudal: MMO
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Eco.
Ranked #5 for Eco fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Eco.
Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Eco.
Ranked #6 for Eco fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Eco.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Rising World
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Eco.
Ranked #7 for Eco fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Eco.
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Captain of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Eco.
Ranked #8 for Eco fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Eco.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Eco
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No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Eco.
Reviewers of Eco cross-mention this title as a similar play.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
This War of Mine
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Eco cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Eco.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Eco.
Reviewers of Eco cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Eco.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Eco.
Reviewers of Eco cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Eco.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
The Long Dark
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Eco.
Reviewers of Eco cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Eco.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
Starbound
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Eco cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Eco.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Eco cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Eco at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Eco on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Eco.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Eco on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Eco.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Eco on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Eco.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Eco on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Eco.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Eco on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Eco.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Eco on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Eco.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Eco.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Eco.
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.
The Lab
WHY THIS
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Eco.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Eco.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Eco.
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.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Eco.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
Unturned
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Eco.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Railway Empire 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Eco.
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Eco.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Eco.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Eco.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Eco.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Frequently asked about Eco
- Does Eco run on Steam Deck?
- Eco 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 Eco cost?
- Eco is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Eco have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Eco supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Eco?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Eco are Railway Empire 2, 7 Days to Die, Stationeers.
- Who developed Eco?
- Eco was developed by Strange Loop 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 Eco.
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