Games like The Machine Stops
If The Machine Stops is your kind of game, the closest matches are World Diplomat, Recursion: Alignment and Intergalactic Storage Clearance — 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 The Machine Stops: Make everyone obsolete with AI by managing resources on a Matrix-style interface. You have one year to strategize resource allocation, unlock new layers of growth, and keep an accelerating company from collapsing under its own scale.
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World Diplomat
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Top pick for The Machine Stops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Machine Stops.
Embark on a diplomatic journey to impact the world with skills and strategy.
Recursion: Alignment
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Second-strongest match for The Machine Stops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Machine Stops.
Run an AI lab. Ship models. Survive what they learn to fake. A satirical management sim where every shortcut compounds. Run an AI startup through data deals, GPU shortages, public backlash, and board pressure — and find out what your optimization targets were really doing.
Intergalactic Storage Clearance
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Third-strongest match for The Machine Stops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with The Machine Stops.
In this light-hearted adventure, you must outwit competitors in bidding wars to secure storage containers scattered across alien worlds. The objective is to uncover valuable objects hidden within them and turn a profit by selling them on the intergalactic market.
Pitch & Pixel
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Ranked #4 for The Machine Stops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Battle through 30 years of digital agency history — optimize sales & marketing, deliver projects, grow your team and outsmart your rivals. Fully simulated market and freely chosen path to success — boutique with quality or agency group? You decide.
Trolley Problem, Inc.
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Ranked #5 for The Machine Stops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Machine Stops.
Trolley Problem, Inc. is a darkly comedic narrative game based on real-world philosophical papers, in which you are asked to make a series of impossible choices from two awful answers. Wrestle with your moral compass, decide the fate of millions – and compare your choices with the rest of the world.
Wall Street Raider
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Ranked #6 for The Machine Stops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Machine Stops.
Wall Street Raider offers the deepest stock market simulations in gaming history. Control publicly traded corporations, futures, options, and even crypto. Whether you want to make billions in equities, short-sell overvalued stocks, or hedge risk using derivatives, the market is yours to conquer!
STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator
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Ranked #7 for The Machine Stops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with The Machine Stops.
Simulator of an 80s Japanese stock market businessman. Chill, catch a retro vibe and watch your profits grow in the text-based game STONKS-9800.
Big Ambitions
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Ranked #8 for The Machine Stops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with The Machine Stops.
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
Free alternatives
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Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Machine Stops.
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.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Machine Stops.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Machine Stops.
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!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Machine Stops.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Machine Stops.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
It gets so lonely here
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Machine Stops.
A yandere yuri visual novel with a fairytale theme. Can you escape from your mysterious pursuer?
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Machine Stops.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Machine Stops.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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- What games are most similar to The Machine Stops?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Machine Stops are World Diplomat, Recursion: Alignment, Intergalactic Storage Clearance.
- Who developed The Machine Stops?
- The Machine Stops was developed by Tall Duck Studio.
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