Games like Alembic
If Alembic is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sediment, Stardust Sandbox and Combustor — 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 Alembic: A falling-sand sandbox built on the **real periodic table**. Every element has genuine physical properties, and reactions emerge from real chemistry — rust iron, ignite thermite, run a galvanic cell, split a uranium pile to criticality. Discover it all in an encyclopedia that fills as you play.
Players who liked Alembic also play
Steam players who put hours into Alembic 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.
Sediment
WHY THIS
Top pick for Alembic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alembic.
A pixel-physics sandbox. Fifty materials, and every one of them is physics: sand finds its angle, water freezes, lava crusts into stone, gunpowder blows. Build your own materials and worlds, and share them in the Workshop.
Stardust Sandbox
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Alembic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alembic.
A creative sandbox simulation where you experiment with physical interactions, build structures, and observe emergent behaviors in a world fully under your control.
Nimbatus - Drone Creator
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Alembic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alembic.
Use the Nimbatus Drone Creator to construct physically simulated drones and try them out in a virtual testing environment. Do you have what it takes to become a drone engineer?
Geareo
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Alembic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Alembic.
Real gears that don't slip in a mechanical invention sandbox. Build freely with resizable parts and shapes, overcome physics challenges, and follow kit instructions. Unleash your engineering creativity with intricate clockwork contraptions, steam-powered systems, and fully functional circuits.
SimulationSteam ↗GizmoLab VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Alembic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alembic.
A VR sci-fi sandbox game where you can put your skills to the test to build crazy inventions, with mechanics analogous to real-life electrical engineering.
Space Crash Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Alembic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alembic.
Real-time planetary collision sandbox powered by SPH physics: smash planets together and watch the destruction and its aftermath!
GENIUS AT WORK!
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Alembic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alembic.
Test your intelligence and creativity! With Genius At Work you will have your construction area where you can let your imagination fly and carry out your technical projects.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Alembic at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under Alembic on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Alembic.
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 Alembic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alembic.
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 Alembic on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Alembic.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under Alembic on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Alembic.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Alembic on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Alembic.
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.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under Alembic on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Alembic.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under Alembic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alembic.
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 Alembic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alembic.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alembic.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alembic.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Alembic.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alembic.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alembic.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Alembic.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alembic.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Alembic.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Alembic
- How much does Alembic cost?
- Alembic is listed on Steam at 4.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Alembic?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Alembic are Sediment, Stardust Sandbox, Combustor.
- Who developed Alembic?
- Alembic was developed by Equious and published by The Bueno Interactive.
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 Alembic.
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