IMHO.

Games like Uncrewed

If Uncrewed is your kind of game, the closest matches are Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, Castle Story and Journey Of Life — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its customizable units feel limitless, challenging and contemplative. 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 Uncrewed: Uncrewed is a real-time strategy game with the ability to design units from scratch. Unlike in more traditional RTS, units obey the laws of physics, making design choices especially important.

2020ActionStrategySimulation11.99 USDWindowsby Quite Different Mechanics
Uncrewed — Steam game cover
Players highlight
Cheap price for long term engagementCustomizable units feel limitlessDev actively responds to player feedbackChallengingContemplativeRetro

Players who liked Uncrewed also play

Steam players who put hours into Uncrewed 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. Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

    WHY THIS

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

    42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.

    2019Strategy34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Castle Story

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Uncrewed.

    Second-strongest match for Uncrewed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Uncrewed.

    Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Journey Of Life

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Uncrewed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Uncrewed.

    You have experienced the sudden loss of your wealth, which has compelled you to abandon your previous life and begin anew. By venturing into the game world, you can construct settlements and forge alliances with other players, ensuring that you will always have exciting challenges to undertake.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Colony Survival

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Uncrewed.

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

    Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

    2017ActionStrategyIndie24.95 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Night of the Dead

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Uncrewed.

    Ranked #5 for Uncrewed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Uncrewed.

    'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. CryoFall

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Uncrewed.

    Ranked #6 for Uncrewed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Uncrewed.

    CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Stronghold: Warlords

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Uncrewed.

    Ranked #7 for Uncrewed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Uncrewed.

    Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!

    2021StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Uncrewed.

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

    The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.

    2013StrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Uncrewed

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Uncrewed.

    Reviewers of Uncrewed cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Uncrewed.

    Red Alert 3: Uprising features four new mini-campaigns, giving players a deeper dive into the storyline's of the Soviets, the Allies, the Empire of the Rising Sun and a unique campaign centered on the origins of everyone’s favorite psionic Japanese schoolgirl commando, Yuriko Omega.

    2009ActionStrategyFree To PlayDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. BATTLETECH

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Uncrewed.

    Reviewers of Uncrewed cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Uncrewed.

    Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.

    2018ActionStrategyAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Forged Battalion

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Uncrewed.

    Reviewers of Uncrewed cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Uncrewed.

    Customize your unique faction in a new take on real-time strategy as you fight in a variety of skirmish, solo, and multiplayer battles.  You are not only a commander, but also an engineer – so you have ultimate control over your faction’s units, factories, superweapons and economy.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Uncrewed at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Uncrewed on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Uncrewed.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Uncrewed on Steam right now. Shares Action with Uncrewed.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~42% under Uncrewed on Steam right now. Shares Action with Uncrewed.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Uncrewed on Steam right now. Shares Action with Uncrewed.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~48% under Uncrewed on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Uncrewed.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Uncrewed on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Uncrewed.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under Uncrewed on Steam right now. Shares Action with Uncrewed.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Uncrewed on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Uncrewed.

    Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. 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 ↗
  3. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  4. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Uncrewed.

    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!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

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

    Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams

    WHY THIS

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

    Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!

    2021IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Dota 2

    WHY THIS

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

    Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.

    2013ActionStrategyFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Uncrewed

How much does Uncrewed cost?
Uncrewed is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Uncrewed have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Uncrewed supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to Uncrewed?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Uncrewed are Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, Castle Story, Journey Of Life.
Who developed Uncrewed?
Uncrewed was developed by Quite Different Mechanics.

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 Uncrewed.

For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.