Games like Gobs & Gears
If Gobs & Gears is your kind of game, the closest matches are Vena, FluxWerks and Clogwork — 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 Gobs & Gears: 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!
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Steam players who put hours into Gobs & Gears 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.
Vena
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Top pick for Gobs & Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gobs & Gears.
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
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Second-strongest match for Gobs & Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gobs & Gears.
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.
Clogwork
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Third-strongest match for Gobs & Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gobs & Gears.
CLOGWORK is a factory-automation game where you turn random pieces into final shapes. Build conveyor belts, glue, cut and rotate parts, wire logic signals, and send the finished shape to the hub to fulfil ever-changing orders.
CircuitVeil
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Ranked #4 for Gobs & Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gobs & Gears.
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
the Cellarer
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Ranked #5 for Gobs & Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gobs & Gears.
Build a medieval monastery and master deep logistics, a transport network to optimize and intricate production chains. Optimize every cart, every path and every building as your monastery prospers.
Harvesys: Farming Factory
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Ranked #6 for Gobs & Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gobs & Gears.
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!
Cargo Protocol: Cyberpunk Trains
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Ranked #7 for Gobs & Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gobs & Gears.
Build a logistics empire in a grim cyberpunk world: lay tracks, optimize production and delivery chains, research technologies, and expand your influence. Corporations are the new gods, and the Market decides who survives.
Industrial Mogul
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Ranked #8 for Gobs & Gears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Gobs & Gears.
Build an industrial empire across vast procedurally generated maps. Create production chains, develop cities, research technologies, build powerful brands, and compete for market dominance in a dynamic economy shaped by supply and demand.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gobs & Gears.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gobs & Gears.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gobs & Gears.
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The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gobs & Gears.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gobs & Gears.
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.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gobs & Gears.
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Frequently asked about Gobs & Gears
- What games are most similar to Gobs & Gears?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gobs & Gears are Vena, FluxWerks, Clogwork.
- Who developed Gobs & Gears?
- Gobs & Gears was developed by GOBLINTEK.
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 Gobs & Gears.
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