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Games like Entropy Department

If Entropy Department is your kind of game, the closest matches are Malignus, Antopolis: The Ant Colony Simulator and Territory: Animals Genetic Strategy — 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 Entropy Department: A facility-building management sim with a physics-fueled sandbox: build the labs, run the shifts, direct your goal-driven staff, and stop anomalies from turning one mistake into a collapse. How long can your facility survive its own research?

StrategySimulationWindowsby Hollow Art Studios
Entropy Department — Steam game cover

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  1. Malignus

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Entropy Department fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Entropy Department.

    Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.

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  2. Antopolis: The Ant Colony Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Entropy Department fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Entropy Department.

    Found a colony, dig a nest, and raise an empire of ants in a giant's back garden. A top-down colony sim of pheromone trails, brood and castes, foraging, and three-way war. Survive a whole backyard food chain of spiders, birds, frogs, and rival ant colonies.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Territory: Animals Genetic Strategy

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Entropy Department fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Entropy Department.

    Strategy game about genes and animal species. Evolve, reproduce, expand to new territories, survive, and fight to achieve various goals like biodiversity or dominance in the ecosystem.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation6.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Entropy Department fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Entropy Department.

    Lead your space agency in The Search for Life in this authentic strategy simulation game. Investigate the solar system and collect evidence of life. Manage base building, rocket designing, launches, and mission planning to Mars and beyond, leading the way in the future of space exploration.

    StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  5. King of the Dwarves: Underground City Builder

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Entropy Department fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Entropy Department.

    Build an epic kingdom inside a mountain in this underground city builder. Mine and build in a vast procedurally generated 3D world. Gather resources, research technology, train warriors and engineers, forge weapons, fight monsters and manage hundreds of units. Become the King of the Dwarves!

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  6. After Inc: Revival

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Entropy Department fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Entropy Department.

    Can you rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead Humanity out of the darkness.

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  7. Ascent of Ashes

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Entropy Department fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Entropy Department.

    A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Infection Free Zone

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Entropy Department fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Entropy Department.

    Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

    2024ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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

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  8. OnlyCans: Thirst Date

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Frequently asked about Entropy Department

What games are most similar to Entropy Department?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Entropy Department are Malignus, Antopolis: The Ant Colony Simulator, Territory: Animals Genetic Strategy.
Who developed Entropy Department?
Entropy Department was developed by Hollow Art Studios.

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 Entropy Department.

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