Games like The Watchmaker
If The Watchmaker is your kind of game, the closest matches are Beta MAX, FAR: Lone Sails and Another Sight - Definitive Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and mysterious. 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 The Watchmaker: The Watchmaker is an action adventure set in a strange steampunk world of giant clock mechanisms, where time has gone mad. Join Alexander, a clock tower keeper, on his quest to restore time to its natural rhythm!
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Beta MAX
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Watchmaker.
Top pick for The Watchmaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Watchmaker.
Use four-dimensional thinking to manipulate time and navigate through this mind bending retro inspired realm. Solve puzzles to help Max find his way home in this atmospheric first-person puzzle platformer.
FAR: Lone Sails
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Watchmaker.
Second-strongest match for The Watchmaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Watchmaker.
Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?
Another Sight - Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Watchmaker.
Third-strongest match for The Watchmaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Watchmaker.
A teenager who has lost her sight and a mysterious cat team up in a surreal fantasy adventure into the unexpected, weaving a tale that brings together some of the world’s greatest minds: Monet, Tesla, Edison and other historical cultural icons.
Vessel
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Watchmaker.
Ranked #4 for The Watchmaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Watchmaker.
Living liquid machines have overrun a world of unstoppable progress and their inventor must stop the chaos in this game about a man with the power to bring ordinary matter to life!
Super Puzzled Cat
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a challenging mood with The Watchmaker.
Ranked #5 for The Watchmaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Watchmaker.
Help Puzzled Cat use jetpacks, portals, bombs, gum, and more to conquer treacherous platforming stages. Play your own way using save states to explore a world full of challenges and secrets - but can you find the way through? Travel through time and space and reach enlightenment.
Teslagrad Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Watchmaker.
Ranked #6 for The Watchmaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Watchmaker.
Return to the indie classic Teslagrad, recharged to provide the ultimate electromagnetic experience! Escape a tyrant king, master the art of Teslamancy, and uncover the secrets buried deep within the Tesla Tower in this puzzle-platforming adventure!
Teslagrad
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Watchmaker.
Ranked #7 for The Watchmaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Watchmaker.
A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.
Hob
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Watchmaker.
Ranked #8 for The Watchmaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Watchmaker.
Transform the world of Hob! A new action-adventure from Runic Games, the award-winning studio behind Torchlight I and II. It's your chance. Make it home.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Watchmaker at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Watchmaker on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Watchmaker.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Watchmaker on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Watchmaker.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under The Watchmaker on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Watchmaker.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Watchmaker on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Watchmaker.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Watchmaker on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Watchmaker.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Watchmaker on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Watchmaker.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Watchmaker on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Watchmaker.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Watchmaker on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Watchmaker.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Watchmaker.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Watchmaker.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Watchmaker.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Floating Point
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Watchmaker.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
Tukoni: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Watchmaker.
Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.
Trick & Treat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Watchmaker.
Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.
Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Watchmaker.
Play as Chelshia the chimera in this platforming beat-em-up adventure into the wonderful world of monster girls!
Wires And Whiskers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Watchmaker.
Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
FAR: Lone Sails
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Watchmaker.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Watchmaker.
Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?
Another Sight - Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Watchmaker.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Watchmaker.
A teenager who has lost her sight and a mysterious cat team up in a surreal fantasy adventure into the unexpected, weaving a tale that brings together some of the world’s greatest minds: Monet, Tesla, Edison and other historical cultural icons.
Super Puzzled Cat
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a challenging mood with The Watchmaker.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Watchmaker.
Help Puzzled Cat use jetpacks, portals, bombs, gum, and more to conquer treacherous platforming stages. Play your own way using save states to explore a world full of challenges and secrets - but can you find the way through? Travel through time and space and reach enlightenment.
Teslagrad Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Watchmaker.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Watchmaker.
Return to the indie classic Teslagrad, recharged to provide the ultimate electromagnetic experience! Escape a tyrant king, master the art of Teslamancy, and uncover the secrets buried deep within the Tesla Tower in this puzzle-platforming adventure!
Frequently asked about The Watchmaker
- How much does The Watchmaker cost?
- The Watchmaker is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Watchmaker?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Watchmaker are Beta MAX, FAR: Lone Sails, Another Sight - Definitive Edition.
- Who developed The Watchmaker?
- The Watchmaker was developed by Micropsia Games SpA.
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