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Games like Industeria

If Industeria is your kind of game, the closest matches are Guardians of the Sanctree, First Feudal and Per Aspera — 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.

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About Industeria: Build and defend a growing industrial colony on a hostile alien world. Mine resources, automate production lines, expand a massive factory, and protect your territory from relentless alien attacks in this top-down 3D strategy game.

2026StrategySimulationWindowsby Arcane Labs
Industeria — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Industeria 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.

  1. Guardians of the Sanctree

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Industeria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Industeria.

    You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. First Feudal

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Industeria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Industeria.

    Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Per Aspera

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Industeria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Industeria.

    Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Castle Story

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Industeria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Industeria.

    Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Space for Sale

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Industeria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Industeria.

    Space for Sale is an interplanetary, top-down Space Realty management game with a focus on problem-solving and exploration. Played either solo or with a friend, it's up to you to transform wild, uninhabited lands into bustling communities!

    2025StrategySimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Astro Colony

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Industeria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Industeria.

    Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

    2026ActionStrategyIndie16.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Prison Architect

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Industeria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Industeria.

    Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Rise to Ruins

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Industeria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Industeria.

    A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Industeria.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Industeria.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. No Results Found

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Industeria.

    Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  8. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Industeria.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Industeria

Does Industeria have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Industeria supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Industeria?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Industeria are Guardians of the Sanctree, First Feudal, Per Aspera.
Who developed Industeria?
Industeria was developed by Arcane Labs.

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 Industeria.

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