Games like Recursion: Alignment
If Recursion: Alignment is your kind of game, the closest matches are Exit Liquidity: Wall Street Trading Sim, Provisional Authority: An AI Governance Simulation and Delphi — 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 Recursion: Alignment: Run an AI lab. Ship models. Survive what they learn to fake. A satirical management sim where every shortcut compounds. Run an AI startup through data deals, GPU shortages, public backlash, and board pressure — and find out what your optimization targets were really doing.
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Exit Liquidity: Wall Street Trading Sim
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Top pick for Recursion: Alignment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Recursion: Alignment.
You have a few dollars and a hunger for more. Navigate decades of economic booms, tech revolutions, and devastating crashes in this deep turn-based simulation. Will you build a legacy through meticulous analysis, or seize power through hostile takeovers and political shadow-play?
Provisional Authority: An AI Governance Simulation
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Second-strongest match for Recursion: Alignment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Recursion: Alignment.
Balance growth, stability, and public trust while an AI observes your every move. Guide a nation through economic crises and political pressure — but be prudent, because the system you rely on may decide it can govern better than you.
Delphi
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Third-strongest match for Recursion: Alignment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Recursion: Alignment.
A political sim where you are Delphi, the AI that guides the world government. Manage laws, budgets and global crises while you pull the strings from the shadows. Will they shut you down… or will you seize power?
Go to IT
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Ranked #4 for Recursion: Alignment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Recursion: Alignment.
Have you ever wanted to run your own software company? Go to IT is a business simulation game with a multitude of parameters to manage and meaningful choices to enjoy. Build your company and bring it to the top, surviving almost 30 years of software industry ups and downs.
Factory Time
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Ranked #5 for Recursion: Alignment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Recursion: Alignment.
A factory automation incremental game at the end of the universe. Start crafting by hand, automate production, and build the Chronoforge to escape.
The Farmer Was Replaced
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Ranked #6 for Recursion: Alignment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Recursion: Alignment.
Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
Chaotic Airport Construction Manager
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Ranked #7 for Recursion: Alignment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Recursion: Alignment.
A simulation game making fun of Germans needing 16 years to build an airport. Are you able to do better?
Captain of Industry
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Ranked #8 for Recursion: Alignment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Recursion: Alignment.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Recursion: Alignment.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Recursion: Alignment.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Recursion: Alignment.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Recursion: Alignment.
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.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Recursion: Alignment.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Frequently asked about Recursion: Alignment
- What games are most similar to Recursion: Alignment?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Recursion: Alignment are Exit Liquidity: Wall Street Trading Sim, Provisional Authority: An AI Governance Simulation, Delphi.
- Who developed Recursion: Alignment?
- Recursion: Alignment was developed by alignment.inc.
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