Games like plexum
If plexum is your kind of game, the closest matches are Industronaut, Vena and FluxWerks — 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 plexum: A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.
Players who liked plexum also play
Steam players who put hours into plexum 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.
Industronaut
WHY THIS
Top pick for plexum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with plexum.
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
Vena
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for plexum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with plexum.
An automation roguelike where every run fits in one sitting. Place hexagonal tiles to grow a production organism, roll dice in the shop to buy new ones, and pick perks that shape your build. Survive nine phases as the Nexus's hunger outpaces you, then break the economy and do it all differently.
FluxWerks
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for plexum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with plexum.
Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.
Beyond These Stars
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for plexum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with plexum.
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Harvesys: Farming Factory
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for plexum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with plexum.
Automate everything from planting to shipping! Connect conveyors and pipes to build a flawless production line. The thrill of maximizing efficiency and watching profits explode is addictive. Unleash your ingenuity and engineer the world's ultimate farming factory!
Gobs & Gears
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for plexum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with plexum.
Reconstruct a Gob factory lost in the Fog. Route resources, put the Gobs to work, and build the BIG BOOM. The Gob King wants his bomb and he wants it NOW!
Red Dust Colony
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for plexum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with plexum.
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
Lexip
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for plexum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with plexum.
Lexip is a cozy fantasy factory game about magic, rail logistics, and questionable sustainability. Build production chains across the overworld and underground, power machines with local magic, fulfill contracts, and keep Null pollution under control.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below plexum at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under plexum on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with plexum.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under plexum on Steam right now. Shares Casual with plexum.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under plexum on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with plexum.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under plexum on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with plexum.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under plexum on Steam right now. Shares Casual with plexum.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under plexum on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with plexum.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~76% under plexum on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with plexum.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under plexum on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with plexum.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with plexum.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with plexum.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Casual with plexum.
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 Simulation and Casual with plexum.
‘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 Adventure and Simulation with plexum.
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!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with plexum.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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!
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Frequently asked about plexum
- How much does plexum cost?
- plexum is listed on Steam at 12.59 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to plexum?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside plexum are Industronaut, Vena, FluxWerks.
- Who developed plexum?
- plexum was developed by Studio Jephinca.
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 plexum.
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