Games like Gearplexed
If Gearplexed is your kind of game, the closest matches are Automate It: Factory Puzzle, uFactory and Kaizen: A Factory Story — 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 Gearplexed: Enjoy playing with gears? Gearplexed is a constructive problem-solving game with a variety of gear-based puzzles ranging from opening gates to building factories. Build gears to get the right amount of speed or torque to the target gears and be careful not to lock up your gear train.
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Steam players who put hours into Gearplexed 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.
Automate It: Factory Puzzle
WHY THIS
Top pick for Gearplexed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gearplexed.
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
uFactory
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Gearplexed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gearplexed.
uFactory is the ultimate in finely-tuned and customizable logistics challenges. Navigate the complexities of manufacturing processes inspired by real industrial methods, but do it your way.
Kaizen: A Factory Story
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Gearplexed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gearplexed.
Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.
Steel Artery: Train City Builder
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Gearplexed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gearplexed.
Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.
The Farmer Was Replaced
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Gearplexed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gearplexed.
Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
while True: learn()
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Gearplexed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gearplexed.
You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!
shapez
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Gearplexed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gearplexed.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gearplexed at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Gearplexed on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gearplexed.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Gearplexed on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gearplexed.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Gearplexed on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gearplexed.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Gearplexed on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Gearplexed.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Gearplexed on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gearplexed.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Gearplexed on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Gearplexed.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gearplexed.
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 Gearplexed.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gearplexed.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gearplexed.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Gearplexed.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gearplexed.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gearplexed.
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!
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Frequently asked about Gearplexed
- How much does Gearplexed cost?
- Gearplexed is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Gearplexed?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gearplexed are Automate It: Factory Puzzle, uFactory, Kaizen: A Factory Story.
- Who developed Gearplexed?
- Gearplexed was developed by Train of Thought Games.
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