Games like Nightwater
If Nightwater is your kind of game, the closest matches are CivDle, Satisfactory and Quest Industries — 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 Nightwater: Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
Players who liked Nightwater also play
Steam players who put hours into Nightwater 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.
CivDle
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Top pick for Nightwater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nightwater.
A relaxing idle city-builder where a single hut grows into a sprawl of millions. Build production chains, let your civilisation expand while you're away, and Ascend to push the whole world up an order of magnitude.
Satisfactory
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Second-strongest match for Nightwater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nightwater.
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!
Quest Industries
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Third-strongest match for Nightwater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nightwater.
Mine resources, build a factory, hire goblins, launch a space rocket. A short and satisfying factory builder about turning a one-goblin operation into a sprawling industrial empire.
ChromaFlow
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Ranked #4 for Nightwater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nightwater.
Build a factory powered by color. Extract red, green, and blue, route them through conveyor networks, and mix them into an expanding spectrum. Fulfil requests for the Chroma Core, unlock new technology, and optimize every production line.
Stella Astrum
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Ranked #5 for Nightwater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nightwater.
Stella Astrum is a whimsical factory game where you manage elemental resources to form Stars, Planets, and more. Use your skills to unlock upgradable factories, nurture colorful celestial bodies, and shape an expansive galaxy. Sit back, relax, and amplify the universe beyond its artistic limits!
Vena
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Ranked #6 for Nightwater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nightwater.
An automation roguelike where every run fits in one sitting. Place hexagonal tiles to grow a production organism, roll dice in the shop to buy new ones, and pick perks that shape your build. Survive nine phases as the Nexus's hunger outpaces you, then break the economy and do it all differently.
FluxWerks
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Ranked #7 for Nightwater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nightwater.
Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.
Facetier
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Ranked #8 for Nightwater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Nightwater.
Match-3 with an automation twist. Every gem you clear is a resource. Store, sort, and route them into machines that extract more gems or match the board for you.
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Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nightwater.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Nightwater.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightwater.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nightwater.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightwater.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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 Nightwater.
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.
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 Nightwater.
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
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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 Nightwater
- What games are most similar to Nightwater?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nightwater are CivDle, Satisfactory, Quest Industries.
- Who developed Nightwater?
- Nightwater was developed by Studio Ashty and published by Studio Ashty, Irox 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 Nightwater.
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