Games like Machines vs Monsters
If Machines vs Monsters is your kind of game, the closest matches are Astro Company, Axom: Conquest and Qubicks — 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 Machines vs Monsters: Machines vs. Monsters is a roguelite tower defense. Land on a hostile planet, build mazes of industrial firepower, and hold your Command Center against escalating native waves. Lose, learn, upgrade the fleet, redeploy. Batavia's survey says the site is viable. The site disagrees.
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Astro Company
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Top pick for Machines vs Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Machines vs Monsters.
Build the path. Defend the Core. Combine towers, cards, and artifacts into broken synergies in an endless tower defense roguelike.
Axom: Conquest
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Second-strongest match for Machines vs Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Machines vs Monsters.
Build and defend your fortress while expanding out in this hold-out tower defense roguelite. Battle across a procedural alien homeworld, fight back corrupted terrain, discover hundreds of structures and upgrades as physics-driven swarms threaten to wipe out humanity.
Qubicks
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Third-strongest match for Machines vs Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Machines vs Monsters.
Qubicks is where tower defense meets roguelike as you venture across procedurally generated levels where you strategically position towers, balancing immediate survival with long-term growth. Upgrade your towers and heroes to adapt to difficult waves and ensure victory against alien inhabitants.
Management In Space
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Ranked #4 for Machines vs Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Machines vs Monsters.
Management In Space is a gritty sci-fi strategy roguelite where you find yourself in debt. Build, mine, trade, date, and defend using stations across the galaxy, all while wars swells, aliens devastate sectors, and cults rip the galaxy apart & release demons upon the cosmos.
SENTRY
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Ranked #5 for Machines vs Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Machines vs Monsters.
SENTRY is an action-defense first person shooter where you defend your spaceship against invading aliens. Plot an escape route through hostile space and battle the enemy across your vessel with the support of traps, turrets and environmental destruction.
Parallax Blue
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Ranked #6 for Machines vs Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Machines vs Monsters.
A strategy tower defence where you create the towers! Gather resources, build towers, defeat bugs, and survive. Unlock new weapons, create towers, gather resources, and die. Don't fall short of the Company's expectations... these resources are worth more than any life, including yours.
Grave Orbit
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Ranked #7 for Machines vs Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Machines vs Monsters.
They buried the truth. The invasion did not end. Now it is coming home. Grave Orbit is a dark sci-fi survival campaign of relentless escalation, impossible odds, and a war that grows far beyond anything humanity was prepared to face.
We Build Below
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Ranked #8 for Machines vs Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Machines vs Monsters.
Get rich or get eaten. Build underground factories, automate production, and defend against parasites in this 1-3 player roguelite.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Machines vs Monsters.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Machines vs Monsters.
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Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Machines vs Monsters.
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.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Machines vs Monsters.
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The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Machines vs Monsters.
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Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Machines vs Monsters.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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Frequently asked about Machines vs Monsters
- What games are most similar to Machines vs Monsters?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Machines vs Monsters are Astro Company, Axom: Conquest, Qubicks.
- Who developed Machines vs Monsters?
- Machines vs Monsters was developed by Studio Bartek.
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 Machines vs Monsters.
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