Games like Tinkernest
If Tinkernest is your kind of game, the closest matches are Monsters Mall, Autonauts and Common'hood — 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 Tinkernest: A crafting colony sim that feels like coming home. A warm campfire, the cutest animal villagers, the curiosity of putting two items together and seeing what comes out. Craft, build, automate, and explore the ancient tunnels down below.
Players who liked Tinkernest also play
Steam players who put hours into Tinkernest 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.
Monsters Mall
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Top pick for Tinkernest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tinkernest.
An Iddle game about shopping for little monsters, like ghosts, zombies and more.
Autonauts
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Second-strongest match for Tinkernest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tinkernest.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Common'hood
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Third-strongest match for Tinkernest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tinkernest.
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
MR FARMBOY
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Ranked #4 for Tinkernest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tinkernest.
MR FARMBOY is a colony farming game with automation. Build your dream farm, grow crops, raise animals, attract villagers, and hire workers to automate everything.
Kubifaktorium
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Ranked #5 for Tinkernest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tinkernest.
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Autonauts vs Piratebots
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Ranked #6 for Tinkernest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tinkernest.
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
Hammerting
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Ranked #7 for Tinkernest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tinkernest.
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Idle Colony
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Ranked #8 for Tinkernest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tinkernest.
A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.
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 Tinkernest.
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 Tinkernest.
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 with Tinkernest.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tinkernest.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tinkernest.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tinkernest.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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 Tinkernest.
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 Tinkernest.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about Tinkernest
- What games are most similar to Tinkernest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tinkernest are Monsters Mall, Autonauts, Common'hood.
- Who developed Tinkernest?
- Tinkernest was developed by starbi, HOLYPERSON and published by starbi, HOLYPERSON.
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 Tinkernest.
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