Games like Tinkernest
If Tinkernest is your kind of game, the closest matches are HavenCraft, Gobs & Gears and GearTopia — 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.
HavenCraft
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Top pick for Tinkernest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tinkernest.
Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.
Gobs & Gears
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Tinkernest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tinkernest.
The Gob King wants his bomb and he wants it NOW! Scout the Fog, reclaim lost Buildings, run Trundler routes to feed them. Deliver the goods then rip it all up and move on. A scrappy logistics puzzle where nothing is permanent.
GearTopia
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Third-strongest match for Tinkernest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tinkernest.
Supply a war you don't fight. A steampunk factory with no wires anywhere: water, steam, shafts and gears. When flat ground runs out, build downward. Fill the orders of dwarven fortresses — they hold only as long as you keep shipping.
Corposlop
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Ranked #4 for Tinkernest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Tinkernest.
Corposlop is an automation game that lives on your desktop. Harvesting resources using bureaucracy, and refine it into components to feed the corporate machine. Make advanced factories and efficient pipelines to make the most out the limited land you have.
Necromancer's Workshop
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Ranked #5 for Tinkernest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Tinkernest.
Necromancer’s Workshop is a fantasy tycoon game. Craft zombies, work the land. Build a cozy countryside business, worth waking the dead for.
Red Dust Colony
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Ranked #6 for Tinkernest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Tinkernest.
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
Fill the Sky
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Ranked #7 for Tinkernest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Tinkernest.
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Autonauts
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Ranked #8 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.
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tinkernest.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
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.
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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 HavenCraft, Gobs & Gears, GearTopia.
- 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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