Games like MachiaVillain
If MachiaVillain is your kind of game, the closest matches are Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation, Another Brick in The Mall and Evil Genius — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and dark. 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 MachiaVillain: Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!
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Steam players who put hours into MachiaVillain 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.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares base building, resource management and an atmospheric mood with MachiaVillain.
Top pick for MachiaVillain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with MachiaVillain.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Another Brick in The Mall
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with MachiaVillain.
Second-strongest match for MachiaVillain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with MachiaVillain.
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
Evil Genius
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a dark mood with MachiaVillain.
Third-strongest match for MachiaVillain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with MachiaVillain.
Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with MachiaVillain.
Ranked #4 for MachiaVillain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with MachiaVillain.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Evil Genius 2: World Domination
WHY THIS
Shares trap design and an atmospheric mood with MachiaVillain.
Ranked #5 for MachiaVillain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with MachiaVillain.
A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with MachiaVillain.
Ranked #6 for MachiaVillain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with MachiaVillain.
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.
STATIONflow
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for MachiaVillain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with MachiaVillain.
STATIONflow is a game about controlling the flow of thousands of passengers by building and managing an efficient underground train station.
Tropico 4
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with MachiaVillain.
Ranked #8 for MachiaVillain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with MachiaVillain.
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
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Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with MachiaVillain.
Reviewers of MachiaVillain cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with MachiaVillain.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with MachiaVillain.
Reviewers of MachiaVillain cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with MachiaVillain.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Evil Genius
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a dark mood with MachiaVillain.
Reviewers of MachiaVillain cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with MachiaVillain.
Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...
Don't Starve
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with MachiaVillain.
Reviewers of MachiaVillain cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with MachiaVillain.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
ONI : Road to be the Mightiest Oni
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with MachiaVillain.
Reviewers of MachiaVillain cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Break your enemies' souls to reclaim your pride. On Kisejima, demon warrior Kuuta and his partner Kazemaru challenge these souls to a trial. All in order to defeat Momotaro, who is both human and evil monster… A tale of sky and wind as they embark upon an island quest.
Dungeon Keeper™ 2
WHY THIS
Shares base building, resource management and a dark mood with MachiaVillain.
Reviewers of MachiaVillain cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with MachiaVillain.
Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below MachiaVillain at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under MachiaVillain on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with MachiaVillain.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under MachiaVillain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with MachiaVillain.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under MachiaVillain on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with MachiaVillain.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under MachiaVillain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with MachiaVillain.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under MachiaVillain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with MachiaVillain.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under MachiaVillain on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with MachiaVillain.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with MachiaVillain.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with MachiaVillain.
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?
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with MachiaVillain.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with MachiaVillain.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with MachiaVillain.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with MachiaVillain.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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!
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Frequently asked about MachiaVillain
- How much does MachiaVillain cost?
- MachiaVillain is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to MachiaVillain?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside MachiaVillain are Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation, Another Brick in The Mall, Evil Genius.
- Who developed MachiaVillain?
- MachiaVillain was developed by Wild Factor and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment.
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