Games like Screeps: World
If Screeps: World is your kind of game, the closest matches are Grey Hack, Stronghold Kingdoms and Screeps: Arena — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its community support and resources, challenging and immersive. 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 →Screeps: World is a strategy and simulation game released in 2016 by Screeps, LLC. Players manage colonies by writing JavaScript code that runs continuously in a persistent multiplayer world, competing against other players in real-time. The sandbox coding approach requires strategic planning as players automate unit behavior and structure management. Reviewers describe the experience as immersive and challenging, with players highlighting the satisfaction of watching their empire grow over time through their own written code. The community provides extensive resources for learning the system. Available for $19.99, the game holds an 87% positive rating from over 1,200 Steam reviews. It is not supported on Steam Deck.
About Screeps: World: Screeps: World is an open source MMO strategy sandbox game for programming enthusiasts. You control your colony by writing JavaScript code that operates 24/7 in the huge persistent online open world.
Players who liked Screeps: World also play
Steam players who put hours into Screeps: World 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.
Grey Hack
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Screeps: World.
Top pick for Screeps: World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Screeps: World.
Grey Hack is a massively multiplayer hacking simulator game. You're a hacker with full freedom to act as you wish on a vast network of procedurally generated computers.
Stronghold Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Screeps: World.
Second-strongest match for Screeps: World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Massively Multiplayer with Screeps: World.
A massively multiplayer grand strategy game, Stronghold Kingdoms is about forging alliances, political mind games, city-building and castle sieges with thousands of other players!
Screeps: Arena
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Screeps: World.
Third-strongest match for Screeps: World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Screeps: World.
Screeps: Arena is an online asynchronous PvP strategy game for programming enthusiasts. You write real JavaScript to control your units, and they fight autonomously against other players in a 1v1 match-based arena environment.
hackmud
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Screeps: World.
Ranked #4 for Screeps: World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Screeps: World.
hackmud is a retro cyberpunk RPG where you play a digital persona in a chaotic, unpredictable, and often goofy abandoned internet. Enter a 90s hacker movie filled with scripts, scams, and sabotage. Explore the world of digital secrets and forge your legacy through cunning, creativity, or disruption.
World Wide Hack
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Screeps: World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Screeps: World.
Reveal company secrets while hacking and exploring their quantum simulation networks. Fights for control with other players, coop with your faction, gather best tools, build most secure servers, write scripts and webs, or choose to be solo hacker who makes the right choices to change the world.
Folklands
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Screeps: World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Screeps: World.
Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.
VEGA Conflict
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Screeps: World.
Ranked #7 for Screeps: World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Massively Multiplayer with Screeps: World.
Stake your claim, command your fleets, and wage epic war in space.
Stronghold: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Screeps: World.
Ranked #8 for Screeps: World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Screeps: World.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Screeps: World at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Screeps: World on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Screeps: World.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Screeps: World on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Screeps: World.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Screeps: World on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Screeps: World.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Screeps: World on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Screeps: World.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Screeps: World on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Screeps: World.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Screeps: World on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Screeps: World.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Screeps: World.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Screeps: World.
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?
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Screeps: World.
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.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Screeps: World.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Screeps: World.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Screeps: World.
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.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Screeps: World.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Screeps: World.
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.
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Frequently asked about Screeps: World
- Does Screeps: World work on Steam Deck?
- Screeps: World is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Screeps: World cost?
- Screeps: World is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Screeps: World have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Screeps: World supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Screeps: World?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Screeps: World are Grey Hack, Stronghold Kingdoms, Screeps: Arena.
- Who developed Screeps: World?
- Screeps: World was developed by Screeps, LLC.
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