Games like Orbital Upgrade
If Orbital Upgrade is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pawn.OS(), Fractal Foundry and Anton — 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 Orbital Upgrade: As the AI of a space station, you control programmable bots and solve automation puzzles. Plan precise processes, optimize your strategies, and watch your solutions execute autonomously.
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Steam players who put hours into Orbital Upgrade 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.
Pawn.OS()
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Top pick for Orbital Upgrade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Orbital Upgrade.
Pawn.OS() is a programming puzzle game where you use a custom scripting language to control a pawn on a grid. Solve 30 puzzles, learn logic step-by-step, and optimize your code to climb the leaderboard—even without any prior coding experience.
Fractal Foundry
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Second-strongest match for Orbital Upgrade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Orbital Upgrade.
Automate fractal megastructures from simple cubes. Design nested factories that scale into recursive systems. Use conditions and loops to solve progressively challenging goals. No pressure, no costs, just pure creativity and automation.
Anton
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Orbital Upgrade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Orbital Upgrade.
Help a sentient robot escape an oppressive society through your abilities to hack and reprogram devices & automatons in the world
Elegorithm
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Ranked #4 for Orbital Upgrade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Orbital Upgrade.
Hack and optimize inefficient elevators in Elegorithm, a Sci-Fi simulation. Connect nodes to build custom algorithms and route endless passenger waves. Clear strict wait time and power targets to upgrade your system. If floors overflow, your hack is detected—game over!
Programmer Dungeon Knightress
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Ranked #5 for Orbital Upgrade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Orbital Upgrade.
Programmer Dungeon is a tactical game that challenges players to use logic programming to solve puzzles and progress through each level. Collect unique skills, use visual programming to automate your character, and defeat your enemies. Plan carefully and enjoy this exciting adventure!
Axon Hero
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Ranked #6 for Orbital Upgrade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Orbital Upgrade.
Axon Hero is more than just a puzzle game - it's a creative playground where logic meets imagination. Build, code, and conquer your way through many hand-crafted challenges, each one more mind-bending than the last.
Obrum
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Ranked #7 for Orbital Upgrade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Orbital Upgrade.
OBRUM is a strategic logical puzzle roguelite where you manage an unstable system, trigger devastating chain reactions, and fight to keep the board from collapsing. OBRUM rewards pattern recognition & long-term planning. You are not solving a puzzle, you are engineering outcomes.
SpaceChem
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Ranked #8 for Orbital Upgrade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Orbital Upgrade.
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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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Orbital Upgrade.
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 with Orbital Upgrade.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Orbital Upgrade.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Orbital Upgrade.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Orbital Upgrade.
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.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Orbital Upgrade.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Orbital Upgrade.
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 Orbital Upgrade
- What games are most similar to Orbital Upgrade?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Orbital Upgrade are Pawn.OS(), Fractal Foundry, Anton.
- Who developed Orbital Upgrade?
- Orbital Upgrade was developed by Fynntastic Games.
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