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Games like Element

If Element is your kind of game, the closest matches are Golden Age, Gemini Wars and Creeper World 4 — 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 Element: Element is a realtime strategy space game for people who don't have time to play realtime strategy space games. Generate energy, mine element, build attack and defence units, and destroy the enemy while maintaining a balance between earth, air and water.

2018ActionStrategyIndie11.99 USDWindows · macOS · Linuxby Flightless
Element — Steam game cover

Players who liked Element also play

Steam players who put hours into Element 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. Golden Age

    WHY THIS

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

    Guard the holy city, and at the right time, go deep into the hinterland of the dark legion, and retrieve the holy objects lost in the last temple catastrophe, the book of contract, the holy grail, the holy sword, the holy stone, the magic bottle, the Thor's hammer, etc.

    2022ActionStrategyAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Gemini Wars

    WHY THIS

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

    Take control of a fleet commander returned from exile, rise through the ranks of the United Space Federation forces and join an epic war across the stars.

    2012StrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Creeper World 4

    WHY THIS

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

    The unstoppable fluid enemy has returned and destroyed every world in its path! Defend against Creeper as it floods across the 3D terrain in this real time strategy game where the enemy is a fluid.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. War Beasts

    WHY THIS

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

    Free layout 3D tower defense war game. There are tanks and Titans on land, battleships and swarms in the sky, and missiles in space. In the face of the enemy, your weapons are not only machine guns, cannons, rockets, but also lasers, cruise missiles and interceptor satellites.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Wooden Battles

    WHY THIS

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

    Build a wooden fort, place your units, watch the mayhem!

    2017ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Planetary Annihilation: TITANS

    WHY THIS

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

    Wage war across entire solar systems with massive armies at your command. Annihilate enemy forces with world-shattering TITAN-class units, and demolish planets with massive super weapons!

    2015ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Renaissance Kingdom Wars

    WHY THIS

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

    The year is 1510. As wars rage across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, it is the age of gunpowder and mercenaries - that changed the course of history. You can do it as well, going from a leader of men to the ruler of an empire in this unique mix of RTS and grand strategy.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. StarFringe: Adversus

    WHY THIS

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

    This is the story about the beginning of the conquest of outer space by earthlings. It began as a global idea of saving mankind from hunger and lack of resources, and ended as a brutal and merciless war in space far from Earth.

    2023Strategy0.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Element at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Element on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Element.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Element on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Element.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~42% under Element on Steam right now. Shares Action with Element.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Element on Steam right now. Shares Action with Element.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~48% under Element on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Element.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Element on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Element.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Element on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Element.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under Element on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Element.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

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

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 ↗
  8. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

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

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

More from Flightless

Other recommendable Steam games by Flightless, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Doomsday Vault

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Flightless, the studio behind Element. Shares Action with Element.

    Rescue Earth’s precious plant life. In your robotic suit navigate a flooded city, break into an underground lair, explore ancient pyramids. Collect seeds and return them to the safety of the Vault. Nurture seeds to grow new sustainable crops. Unlock additional tools and items to customise your suit.

    2021ActionAdventureCasual8.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Monster Racing League

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Flightless, the studio behind Element. Shares Strategy with Element.

    Monster Racing League is a multiplayer combat racing game where you don’t have to steer. Harness the power of your monsters to attack and defend your way to the finish line. It's chaos, mayhem, and non-stop fun all rolled into one!

    2023StrategyCasualEarly AccessFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Killing Things With Your Friends

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Flightless, the studio behind Element. Shares Action with Element.

    Rip limbs off mutants and use them as weapons in this chaotic co-op survival game about dark humour and dismemberment. Hack through mutant hordes, work as a team, and survive lethal challenges for profit!

    2026ActionSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Element

How much does Element cost?
Element is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Element?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Element are Golden Age, Gemini Wars, Creeper World 4.
Who developed Element?
Element was developed by Flightless.

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 Element.

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