Games like Gridmax
If Gridmax is your kind of game, the closest matches are Necromancer's Workshop, Cog Foo and F.E.A.S.T — 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 Gridmax: Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
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Necromancer's Workshop
WHY THIS
Top pick for Gridmax fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gridmax.
Necromancer’s Workshop is a fantasy tycoon game. Craft zombies, work the land. Build a cozy countryside business, worth waking the dead for.
Cog Foo
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Gridmax fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gridmax.
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
F.E.A.S.T
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Gridmax fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gridmax.
Congratulations! You've been hired by an elite organization that cooks for gods. Farm, automate, and cook gourmet meals to appease divine beings.
My Drug Cartel
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Gridmax fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gridmax.
A drug plantation management game with basebuilding, strategy and combat elements. Expand your plantation, hire workers, and plan new smuggling routes. But be ready to face a heavy response by law enforcement by hiring guards, buying weapons and building defences.
The Great Fluctus
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Gridmax fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gridmax.
Assist your astronaut crew as they survive and start a space colony, evolving it into a unique settlement of your choice. The living voxel world, with its striking visuals, offers more than sandbox survival - trade, explore, and immerse yourself in the weirdest alien culture ever!
Routes and Forges
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Gridmax fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gridmax.
A unique blend of RTS, Tycoon, and Tower Defense, where you are the architect, mayor, and commander of a growing village (and conurbation of villages). Your goals are simple: build a prosperous community, optimize production chains, and survive the horrors that emerge from the dark.
Black Market INC.
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Gridmax fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gridmax.
Build and manage your own criminal empire in this first-person sandbox management simulator. Produce illegal goods, automate production, hire staff, complete customer orders, expand your base, and grow your business while balancing profit and risk.
Factory Town 2: Paradise
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Gridmax fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gridmax.
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gridmax at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under Gridmax on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gridmax.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Gridmax on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gridmax.
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 ~67% under Gridmax on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gridmax.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Gridmax on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Gridmax.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under Gridmax on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gridmax.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Gridmax on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gridmax.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Gridmax on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Gridmax.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Gridmax on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gridmax.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gridmax.
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!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gridmax.
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 Gridmax.
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!
Electoral Carnage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Early Access with Gridmax.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gridmax.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gridmax.
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.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gridmax.
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 Gridmax
- How much does Gridmax cost?
- Gridmax is listed on Steam at 4.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Gridmax?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gridmax are Necromancer's Workshop, Cog Foo, F.E.A.S.T.
- Who developed Gridmax?
- Gridmax was developed by Dream Gears.
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