Games like Retroneer
If Retroneer is your kind of game, the closest matches are JOY OF PROGRAMMING Prologue - Hello World, Towerlings and Dreamjob: Programmer Simulator - Learn Programming Games — 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 Retroneer: You are the Retroneer. Craft circuits, optimise your designs and uncover the secrets at the heart of Amplitude. Combine game-changing Trinkets, powerful Modules, and your own problem-solving skills to generate explosive results in this approachable and deep roguelike resource management game.
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JOY OF PROGRAMMING Prologue - Hello World
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Top pick for Retroneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Retroneer.
Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more and solve existing bite-sized programming challenges. Play this free prologue for the upcoming full game JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator.
Towerlings
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Second-strongest match for Retroneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Retroneer.
Watch autonomous adventurers climb a 100-floor tower while you guide their fate through strategic intervention. No direct control — only decisions. Choose when to summon, strengthen, or protect, and decide whether to build an army or raise a few elite heroes.
Dreamjob: Programmer Simulator - Learn Programming Games
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Third-strongest match for Retroneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Retroneer.
A programmer's career sim. Acquire actual coding skills while playing! Learn programming from zero, earn skill points, change your office, create devices and games with visual programming. Our code learning game is a perfect introduction to Python, C++, C#, Java, or JavaScript.
JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator
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Ranked #4 for Retroneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Retroneer.
Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.
Fabricatio
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Ranked #5 for Retroneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Retroneer.
Build efficient production lines, automate resource transport, and master complex logistics in a 2D factory-building experience focused purely on automation.
Germ Swarm: Evolution & Mutation
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Ranked #6 for Retroneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Retroneer.
Fight ever-mutating bacteria and viruses, collect gene modules from fallen pathogens, evolve and strengthen your immune system, unlock a variety of medical interventions, and create powerful synergistic builds to survive an ever-escalating infection.
Space Planet Explorer
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Ranked #7 for Retroneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Retroneer.
One wrong jump ends the mission. Explore 76 real worlds, from Mercury to TRAPPIST-1e, built from NASA data and astronomical research. Manage scarce resources, survey distant worlds, and search for humanity's new home in a science-driven space roguelite where every run could be your last.
SpaceChem
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Ranked #8 for Retroneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Retroneer.
Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!
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Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Retroneer.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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!
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Retroneer.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Retroneer.
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Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Retroneer.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Retroneer.
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!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Retroneer.
Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.
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Frequently asked about Retroneer
- What games are most similar to Retroneer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Retroneer are JOY OF PROGRAMMING Prologue - Hello World, Towerlings, Dreamjob: Programmer Simulator - Learn Programming Games.
- Who developed Retroneer?
- Retroneer was developed by enoom and published by Slug Disco, enoom.
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