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Games like The Hundredth Gear

If The Hundredth Gear is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pull Until It Breaks, Fruitfall and Find The Needle — 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 The Hundredth Gear: Build the legendary Hundredth Gear, a 100-stage mechanical machine, in this first-person incremental game. Start with your own two hands, then research, upgrade and automate your growing creation as you chase the impossible: 10¹⁰⁰ rotations. What happens if you actually reach it?

StrategyIndieSimulationCasualWindowsby Crimson Cloud Games
The Hundredth Gear — Steam game cover

Players who liked The Hundredth Gear also play

Steam players who put hours into The Hundredth Gear 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. Pull Until It Breaks

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Hundredth Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Hundredth Gear.

    Push everyday materials to their breaking point in a destructive-testing simulation game with incremental progression. Apply force, earn Research, upgrade your machine, unlock new specimens, and discover which breaks first: the specimen or the machine?

    IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  2. Fruitfall

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Hundredth Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Hundredth Gear.

    Fruitfall is an orchard simulator with incremental progression and automation. Harvest and sell fruit, craft a variety of products, plant new trees, automate your orchard, increase your profits, and build your own fruit empire!

    IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  3. Find The Needle

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Hundredth Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Hundredth Gear.

    You have a shovel and a haystack with about six million strands in it. Somewhere inside there's a needle. Dig it out by hand, sell the hay, then spend the money on belts and machines until you don't have to dig anymore.

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  4. Glint Grade

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Hundredth Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Hundredth Gear.

    Glint Grade is a 3D tycoon sandbox where you can design and develop your own factory! Mines generate ores which you must navigate through complex networks of upgraders, teleporters, and smelters to multiply their values.

    2026StrategyFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  5. Investor Incremental

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Hundredth Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hundredth Gear.

    From 0 to Hero investing simulation game. Start as a dead end job worker and work your way to financial freedom. Supports both minmaxing and relaxing playstyles.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  6. Bottle Flip Inc

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Hundredth Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hundredth Gear.

    An incremental game about flipping bottles, unlocking and upgrading unique abilities, and turning simple bottle flips into increasingly satisfying moments.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  7. Hamstr Protocol

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Hundredth Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hundredth Gear.

    Build a hamster-powered bio-mining operation from the ground up. Assemble rigs by hand, manage heat, feed your runners, and keep production moving. Start in a garage, optimize every part of your operation, and scale into a full-scale industrial operation.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  8. Ember Folks

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Hundredth Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Hundredth Gear.

    Expand your city, summon an army of workers, mine resources and heat a dying star to millions of degrees in this incremental adventure. Discover new upgrades and synergies, prestige to unlock new mechanics and watch numbers go up - a lot.

    2027StrategyIndieSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Hundredth Gear.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Hundredth Gear.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Hundredth Gear.

    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 ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Hundredth Gear.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 The Hundredth Gear.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Hundredth Gear.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Crimson Cloud Games

Other recommendable Steam games by Crimson Cloud Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Ashes of the Damned: The Forgotten Ward

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Crimson Cloud Games, the studio behind The Hundredth Gear. Shares Indie with The Hundredth Gear.

    Explore an abandoned psychiatric ward in this first-person psychological horror. Find patient files, solve puzzles, uncover your connection to the ward, and survive the entities stalking its halls. You cannot fight back.

    2026IndieAdventure7.19 USDSteam ↗
  2. I AM COFFEEE!

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Crimson Cloud Games, the studio behind The Hundredth Gear. Shares Simulation and Casual with The Hundredth Gear.

    Play as a sentient coffee machine in a dark comedy office game where every choice fuels productivity, panic, and workplace chaos.

    SimulationCasualSteam ↗
  3. Until the Fire Dies

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Crimson Cloud Games, the studio behind The Hundredth Gear. Shares Simulation with The Hundredth Gear.

    A first-person survival horror game where you chop trees and split logs by day, then keep the fire alive through the night as horrors close in beyond its light.

    ActionAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  4. Pull Until It Breaks

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Crimson Cloud Games, the studio behind The Hundredth Gear. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Hundredth Gear.

    Push everyday materials to their breaking point in a destructive-testing simulation game with incremental progression. Apply force, earn Research, upgrade your machine, unlock new specimens, and discover which breaks first: the specimen or the machine?

    IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Hundredth Gear

What games are most similar to The Hundredth Gear?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Hundredth Gear are Pull Until It Breaks, Fruitfall, Find The Needle.
Who developed The Hundredth Gear?
The Hundredth Gear was developed by Crimson Cloud Games.

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 The Hundredth Gear.

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