Games like PlayIndex
If PlayIndex is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pillazon: MMO Drug Lord Tycoon, Bills Must Be Paid and Bomb Farm — 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 PlayIndex: A relaxed trading sim where video games are the market. Real Steam player counts reprice every game every 10 minutes: buy low, sell high, read the tape, and compete in monthly seasons. Fits around your day and never demands a session.
Players who liked PlayIndex also play
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Pillazon: MMO Drug Lord Tycoon
WHY THIS
Top pick for PlayIndex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with PlayIndex.
Pillazon is an MMO virtual business simulation game where you work as the CEO of a new company. Your mission is to create your own website and build the world's extensive drug empire!
Bills Must Be Paid
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for PlayIndex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with PlayIndex.
You're broke, smash piggy banks, bills must be paid. A short active incremental game. Get money, upgrade, and get debt free!
Bomb Farm
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for PlayIndex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with PlayIndex.
An idle RPG where your bomber squadron gathers resources for you. Destroy rocks, hunt for rare items, forge and upgrade your equipment, master a vast skill tree, and trade items with other players on the Steam Market. Free to play.
Guild Management Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for PlayIndex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with PlayIndex.
Build and customize a fantasy guild, recruit and equip adventurers, assemble balanced parties, and send them on dangerous expeditions. Manage your roster, resources, injuries, and upgrades as your guild grows.
The Deconsecration Initiative
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for PlayIndex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with PlayIndex.
A short incremental game about building a weapon to kill a god. Build your base, fire your laser, collect shards, Barry has turned into a slug. Upgrade your slugs.
Scratch the Ticket
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for PlayIndex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with PlayIndex.
Scratch the Ticket is a first‑person incremental gambling sim where every ticket is a test of nerves. Print tickets, scratch cells, and decide: cash out now or risk it all. The outcome depends only on your choice.
无休仙途
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for PlayIndex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with PlayIndex.
This is a casual strategic placement game. In the aerial world set in ancient China, players will play the role of a descendant of the Immortal Cultivation Sect. Travel through the barren continent, obtain various resources, build your sect, and ultimately ascend to the immortal realm.
Angel Clicker
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for PlayIndex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with PlayIndex.
It's Heaven vs. Hell in the annual Soul-Catching Contest...and there's an office-wide pizza party at stake! Angel Clicker is a short, relaxed incremental clicker with (optional) rhythm elements. Build quirky buildings, collect divine resources, get attacked by aliens, and... Go on a date?!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below PlayIndex at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under PlayIndex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with PlayIndex.
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 ~58% under PlayIndex on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with PlayIndex.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under PlayIndex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with PlayIndex.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under PlayIndex on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with PlayIndex.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~79% under PlayIndex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with PlayIndex.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under PlayIndex on Steam right now. Shares Casual with PlayIndex.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under PlayIndex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with PlayIndex.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under PlayIndex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with PlayIndex.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with PlayIndex.
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?
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with PlayIndex.
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!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with PlayIndex.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with PlayIndex.
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!
No Results Found
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with PlayIndex.
Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with PlayIndex.
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 PlayIndex.
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!
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Frequently asked about PlayIndex
- How much does PlayIndex cost?
- PlayIndex is listed on Steam at 7.19 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to PlayIndex?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside PlayIndex are Pillazon: MMO Drug Lord Tycoon, Bills Must Be Paid, Bomb Farm.
- Who developed PlayIndex?
- PlayIndex was developed by Breaker Game Studios.
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 PlayIndex.
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