Games like Buildanauts
If Buildanauts is your kind of game, the closest matches are FrontierLord, Heavy Works and Alpha Lyrae Discovery — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its deep crafting depth, planet scale city design and sandbox freedom. 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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Players who liked Buildanauts also play
Steam players who put hours into Buildanauts 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.
FrontierLord
WHY THIS
Top pick for Buildanauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Buildanauts.
FrontierLord is a pixel strategy game to build and guard frontier forts. As lord, build villages, collect wood and ore for production. Place siege gear and wall traps, train troops to repel raiders. Balance building and defense, craft your fort and create your frontier legend.
Heavy Works
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Buildanauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Buildanauts.
Build and Destroy with satisfying digging and building mechanics in this openworld physics constuction simulator, borrow cash to buy bigger more powerfull machines and Build more! Freely construct your yard and the world around to build a town from nothing.
Alpha Lyrae Discovery
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Buildanauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Buildanauts.
Alpha Lyrae (Vega) is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra. You were sent to Alpha Lyrae system, and your first object is to discover and to transmit data back. The last and only message from the previous team: "It is a rich and soft planet. They are everywhere."
Hotel Manager Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Buildanauts.
Ranked #4 for Buildanauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Buildanauts.
Build and run your own hotel from the ground up. Manage guests, design rooms, hire staff and upgrade floors. Set competitive prices for rooms and turn the tiny 1-floor building into a thriving 100-story luxury hotel.
Built by Day, Bitten by Night
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Buildanauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Buildanauts.
Built by Day, Bitten by Night is a cozy voxel city builder with a small problem: the zombies. And pirates. And yetis, robots, UFOs. Build your kingdom by day — farms, fountains, mansions, dragons. Defend it by night. How long can your keep survive till dawn?
Train Frontier Classic
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Buildanauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Buildanauts.
Train Frontier Classic is a stylized landscape building and multiplayer train riding sandbox, inspired by the fun of model railroad building. Fill a scene with miles of scale track, hundreds of props, and a personal train car setup -- then go online to share and ride your creation with friends!
SUPER BUILD
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Buildanauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Buildanauts.
Build, design, and explore your own fantasy world using over 1000+ items, in this relaxing sandbox game. No missions, no objectives, no timers. Just stress-free building, exploration, and good vibes.
Pathless Woods
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Buildanauts.
Ranked #8 for Buildanauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Buildanauts.
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Buildanauts at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Buildanauts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Buildanauts.
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 ~67% under Buildanauts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Buildanauts.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Buildanauts on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Buildanauts.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Buildanauts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Buildanauts.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Buildanauts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Buildanauts.
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 ~47% under Buildanauts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Buildanauts.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Buildanauts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Buildanauts.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Buildanauts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Buildanauts.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Buildanauts.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Buildanauts.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Buildanauts.
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 and Casual with Buildanauts.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Buildanauts.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
Aimlabs
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Buildanauts.
Aimlabs is the aim trainer of choice for over 45 Million players, from beginners to esports pros. Our unique aim analysis optimizes your gameplay, targets your weaknesses & builds key skills for any FPS game! Time to warm up with our unlimited scenarios & rank up in-game!
Supermarket Together
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Buildanauts.
The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!
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Frequently asked about Buildanauts
- How much does Buildanauts cost?
- Buildanauts is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Buildanauts?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Buildanauts are FrontierLord, Heavy Works, Alpha Lyrae Discovery.
- Who developed Buildanauts?
- Buildanauts was developed by TouchTilt Games and published by Octopus Tree.
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 Buildanauts.
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