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: Survive a hostile alien world, gather resources, build a settlement, and grow your colony. Craft tools, construct defenses, and adapt to harsh environments in this open-ended survival colony simulator.
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Steam players who put hours into Gridmax 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.
Necromancer's Workshop
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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
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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 Simulation 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.
SeaColony
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Gridmax fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gridmax.
SeaColony is a base-building survival game set in the endless open sea. Build and expand a floating outpost, manage survivors, and set up production chains to keep your colony alive. Farm the ocean and trade with merchant ships to survive and grow in the harsh deep.
Factory Town 2: Paradise
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Ranked #5 for Gridmax fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation 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!
Dawn Apart
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Ranked #6 for Gridmax fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gridmax.
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Ascent of Ashes
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Ranked #7 for Gridmax fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gridmax.
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Autonauts vs Piratebots
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Ranked #8 for Gridmax fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gridmax.
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
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 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 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 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.
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 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 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
- 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.
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 Gridmax.
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