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Games like Ghostorio

If Ghostorio is your kind of game, the closest matches are Factorio, Cave Expedition and Stellar Shipyard — 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 Ghostorio: Build automated factories in a bright afterlife. Mine, belt, power, and produce at massive scale, then defend your work from the spirits it attracts. A third-person factory game of automation, base building, and tower defense.

2030StrategyIndieAdventureWindowsby REGENER
Ghostorio — Steam game cover

Players who liked Ghostorio also play

Steam players who put hours into Ghostorio 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.

  1. Factorio

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Ghostorio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ghostorio.

    Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Cave Expedition

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Ghostorio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghostorio.

    The Ultimate Caving Simulator. Experience dry and wet caving as you descend into tight squeezes, massive chambers, and uncharted depths. The deeper you go, the more upgrades & equipment you need ... and every decisions matters!

    IndieAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Stellar Shipyard

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Ghostorio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ghostorio.

    Stellar Shipyard is a space colony sandbox where you design modular ships and stations, and automate resource production using drones and workers. Let the automated systems fly even the most improvised designs. Face rival factions and threats solo, or alongside friends as allies or rivals.

    StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  4. Pixel Divers

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Ghostorio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ghostorio.

    The surface was never the whole story. Something ancient calls from the floor of an alien sea. Dive with your crew through seven ever-darker layers: mine, craft, build bases, crew subs, and guard your air and sanity as the ocean turns hostile. It has been expecting you.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  5. Satisfactory

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Ghostorio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ghostorio.

    Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Ultimate Multiplayer Survival Engine

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Ghostorio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghostorio.

    The only goal is survival. Explore a dangerous world, gather resources, craft equipment, build shelter, and fight to stay alive. Whether alone or with friends, every decision could mean the difference between thriving and losing everything.

    ActionIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  7. Valheim

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Ghostorio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghostorio.

    A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

    2026ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Riftbreaker

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Ghostorio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ghostorio.

    The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghostorio.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghostorio.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Control, I'm Not Coming Back

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghostorio.

    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.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

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

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. No Results Found

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghostorio.

    Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  8. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ghostorio.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Factorio

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ghostorio.

    Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Satisfactory

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ghostorio.

    Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Valheim

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghostorio.

    A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

    2026ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Ghostorio

Does Ghostorio have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Ghostorio supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to Ghostorio?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ghostorio are Factorio, Cave Expedition, Stellar Shipyard.
Who developed Ghostorio?
Ghostorio was developed by REGENER.

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 Ghostorio.

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