Games like Elegorithm
If Elegorithm is your kind of game, the closest matches are Orbital Upgrade, FORK BOMB: A Programming Game and Genesis Factory — 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 Elegorithm: Hack and optimize inefficient elevators in Elegorithm, a Sci-Fi simulation. Connect nodes to build custom algorithms and route endless passenger waves. Clear strict wait time and power targets to upgrade your system. If floors overflow, your hack is detected—game over!
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Steam players who put hours into Elegorithm 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.
Orbital Upgrade
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Top pick for Elegorithm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elegorithm.
As the AI of a space station, you control programmable bots and solve automation puzzles. Plan precise processes, optimize your strategies, and watch your solutions execute autonomously.
FORK BOMB: A Programming Game
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Elegorithm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elegorithm.
Write real code in a Python-like language to control one machine that copies itself. Then watch a thousand copies of your program eat a world. A single-player programming incremental game about self-replicating machines.
Genesis Factory
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Elegorithm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elegorithm.
Genesis Factory is a factory-building automation sim where you program your workers. Mine, cut, pump, and forge raw materials, then code workers with a visual flowchart to gather, carry, produce, and stockpile. Research blueprints, logistics, and drones to grow a self-running empire.
Blendefine
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Ranked #4 for Elegorithm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elegorithm.
2D automation factory game, set in an chinese ancient fantasy world,play as a sigil Master,puzzle-solving, programming, optimize production to meet time, financial, or spatial constraints.
Cloud Arch Simulator
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Ranked #5 for Elegorithm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elegorithm.
A reverse tower-defense puzzle for engineers. Architect cloud systems that survive brutal traffic surges — place CDNs, caches, load balancers and databases, hit deploy, and watch your design hold or collapse under a live storm. Real patterns, real tradeoffs, a live YAML mirror.
IT THINKS! - Build Your Own GPU
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Ranked #6 for Elegorithm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elegorithm.
Design the chip that powers AI. Start with a single logic gate and build a computer: wire circuits, cast designs into reusable chips, program tiny kernels, and scale your architecture into a working GPU.
ChipWits Worlds
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Ranked #7 for Elegorithm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elegorithm.
A colony sim engineering sandbox where every robot is driven by a simulated 6502 CPU. Write and debug real assembly code to automate mining, power grids, logistics, and defense against alien swarms. Master systems programming to conquer lethal alien worlds.
Phasewright
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Ranked #8 for Elegorithm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elegorithm.
A pulse crosses one cell per tick — the longer way arrives later. From that one rule you build machines out of light: lay conduits, split colours, hit the beat. Quiet, untimed, free.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Elegorithm at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~76% under Elegorithm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Elegorithm.
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 ~53% under Elegorithm on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Elegorithm.
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
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Priced ~64% under Elegorithm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Elegorithm.
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 ~53% under Elegorithm on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Elegorithm.
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 ~76% under Elegorithm on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elegorithm.
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 ~53% under Elegorithm on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Elegorithm.
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 ~53% under Elegorithm on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Elegorithm.
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
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Priced ~53% under Elegorithm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Elegorithm.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Elegorithm.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Elegorithm.
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?
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Elegorithm.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Elegorithm.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Elegorithm.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Elegorithm.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Elegorithm.
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Frequently asked about Elegorithm
- How much does Elegorithm cost?
- Elegorithm is listed on Steam at 4.19 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Elegorithm?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Elegorithm are Orbital Upgrade, FORK BOMB: A Programming Game, Genesis Factory.
- Who developed Elegorithm?
- Elegorithm was developed by Kariya_Zucchini.
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