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Games like Scraptory

If Scraptory is your kind of game, the closest matches are Valorborn, Machine Mind and The Riftbreaker — 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.

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About Scraptory: Command a walking factory-castle in a feudal sci-fi sandbox strategy RPG with roguelite elements. Race across an open world to salvage alien-infested spaceships crashing from orbit. Build industries and defenses, recruit vassals, and decide the fates of competing factions.

StrategyIndieAdventureRPGEarly AccessWindowsby David Shaw
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Steam players who put hours into Scraptory 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. Valorborn

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Scraptory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scraptory.

    Dive into a living medieval fantasy sandbox RPG where the world moves with or without you and factions rise and fall. Become a thief, hunter, or sellsword, survive alone or with a party, and shape your story in a fully enterable world where every building, cave, and road hides opportunity or danger.

    2026ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Machine Mind

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Scraptory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scraptory.

    Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!

    2026ActionStrategyIndie15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Riftbreaker

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Scraptory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scraptory.

    The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cultivation Tales

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Scraptory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scraptory.

    Cultivation Tales is an open world survival craft online game. You will experience collecting, crafting, hunting, fighting, building, researching, in a wild mythical world. Fight for your clan and yourself, from mortal to divinity!

    2024ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Dustland Delivery

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Scraptory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scraptory.

    Dustland Delivery is a post-apocalyptic survival business simulator. Scour the wastes for profit, complete missions to grow your trading empire, and assemble a rag-tag band of adventurers to turn your city into the capital of the Dustlands. Danger lurks around every corner—but no risk, no reward!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Legends of Ellaria

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Scraptory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scraptory.

    Legends of Ellaria is a unique blend of sandbox action-RPG and real-time strategy. Build a new kingdom for your people, construct and manage its cities, command your troops in epic battles and join them fighting in third-person action, and live adventures in an immersive high fantasy world.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Survivalist

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Scraptory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scraptory.

    It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.

    2015ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Kenshi

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Scraptory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scraptory.

    A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

    2018ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Control, I'm Not Coming Back

    WHY THIS

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

    Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

    WHY THIS

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

    Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.

    2021IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. 93, Kuindzhi

    WHY THIS

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

    Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Saihate Station

    WHY THIS

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

    An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.

    2025IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Scraptory

What games are most similar to Scraptory?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Scraptory are Valorborn, Machine Mind, The Riftbreaker.
Who developed Scraptory?
Scraptory was developed by David Shaw and published by Inductance, LLC..

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