Games like Left to Your Own Devices
If Left to Your Own Devices is your kind of game, the closest matches are Scavengers of Mars - Rover Survival Simulator, Satisfactory and Factorio — 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 Left to Your Own Devices: Something stripped you to pieces and left you in a junkyard. Now everything on this planet hunts you. Rebuild your body from salvage, craft devices to survive, and explore a hand-drawn world — down into the dark, or the planets above.
Players who liked Left to Your Own Devices also play
Steam players who put hours into Left to Your Own Devices 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.
Scavengers of Mars - Rover Survival Simulator
WHY THIS
Top pick for Left to Your Own Devices fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Left to Your Own Devices.
SCAVENGERS OF MARS is an exploration-survival adventure set on the cold, desolate surface of Mars. Guide a Mars Rover to aid survivors of a catastrophic disaster as they await rescue from Earth. Explore, gather resources, craft and ensure their survival against the planet's harsh conditions.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Left to Your Own Devices fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Left to Your Own Devices.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Left to Your Own Devices fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Left to Your Own Devices.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Left to Your Own Devices fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Left to Your Own Devices.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
AETHUS
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Left to Your Own Devices fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Left to Your Own Devices.
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Blossom: The Seed of Life
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Left to Your Own Devices fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Left to Your Own Devices.
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Left to Your Own Devices fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Left to Your Own Devices.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Valheim
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Left to Your Own Devices fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Left to Your Own Devices.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Left to Your Own Devices.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Left to Your Own Devices.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Left to Your Own Devices.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Left to Your Own Devices.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Left to Your Own Devices.
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 Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Left to Your Own Devices.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Left to Your Own Devices.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Left to Your Own Devices.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Left to Your Own Devices.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Left to Your Own Devices.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Left to Your Own Devices.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Blossom: The Seed of Life
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Left to Your Own Devices.
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Left to Your Own Devices.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Frequently asked about Left to Your Own Devices
- What games are most similar to Left to Your Own Devices?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Left to Your Own Devices are Scavengers of Mars - Rover Survival Simulator, Satisfactory, Factorio.
- Who developed Left to Your Own Devices?
- Left to Your Own Devices was developed by Levi Lakota Lowe.
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 Left to Your Own Devices.
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