Games like Tenebrarium
If Tenebrarium is your kind of game, the closest matches are BudMageddon, IDLE: Intergalactic Defense League Exterminators and Facrobry — 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 Tenebrarium: An idle-like alien colony simulator. Study an alien species and expand the colony to discover all their peculiar behaviours.
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Steam players who put hours into Tenebrarium 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.
BudMageddon
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Top pick for Tenebrarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tenebrarium.
Aliens Demanded 3 Billion KGs of Sticky Icky Buds Or They Vaporize The Earth! Humanity's last hope is You & weed. A chill pixel-art idle Incremental grower that runs while you do everything else.
IDLE: Intergalactic Defense League Exterminators
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Tenebrarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tenebrarium.
An incremental game about blasting bugs, collecting guts, upgrading a base, and blasting more bugs!
Facrobry
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Third-strongest match for Tenebrarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tenebrarium.
Facrobry is a strategy-simulator in which you will manage an automated robot production station. Research upgrades, assemble robots, and send them into battle!
Desk Space: Idle Spacefleet clicker
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Ranked #4 for Tenebrarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Tenebrarium.
Grow your fleet of spaceships in this incremental space game. Mine asteroids and trade with stations, unlock upgrades to make more money, deploy pirates, and unlock [REDACTED]. Pin to your desktop and watch your empire grow while you do "more important" things.
Candy Ship
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Ranked #5 for Tenebrarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tenebrarium.
You will control a candy spaceship in the shape of a whale as it navigates through the Candy Universe. Its goal is to reach the distant Candy Planet! Your spaceship will collect candy meteorites in space and convert them into fuel, enabling a journey lasting over 400 years.
Factory Works Idle
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Ranked #6 for Tenebrarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tenebrarium.
Build an industrial empire across 10 technological eras and 3 parallel dimensions. Gather resources, automate production chains, research 100 technologies, and tear through reality itself - from stone tools to singularity cores to alien dimensions with hostile ecosystems.
Clicky Islands
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Ranked #7 for Tenebrarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tenebrarium.
Clicky Islands is a unique blend of incremental gameplay, clicker mechanics, city-builder elements, and resource management. You play as a governor appointed by the king to discover and develop a new island for his future kingdom.
Minion Colony
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Ranked #8 for Tenebrarium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tenebrarium.
A fantasy city builder where you build up your army of minions to take on monsters, bandits and even entire armies! Recruit a wide range of minions to help you gather resources, craft weapons and armor, and develop your colony into the stronghold it was always meant to be.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Tenebrarium.
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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tenebrarium.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tenebrarium.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tenebrarium.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tenebrarium.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tenebrarium.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Tenebrarium.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tenebrarium.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about Tenebrarium
- What games are most similar to Tenebrarium?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tenebrarium are BudMageddon, IDLE: Intergalactic Defense League Exterminators, Facrobry.
- Who developed Tenebrarium?
- Tenebrarium was developed by Whatdog.
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 Tenebrarium.
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