Games like Stormworks: Build and Rescue
If Stormworks: Build and Rescue is your kind of game, the closest matches are I Fetch Rocks, Desynced and Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its vast modding community, challenging and immersive. 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 →Stormworks: Build and Rescue is a simulation released in 2020 by Geometa at $24.99, currently playable on Steam Deck. Players design and create vehicles for maritime rescue operations in an open-world environment. The game features Lua scripting, XML editing, robust mod support, and procedural generation, allowing for deep customization of vehicles and systems. Reviewers highlight the vast modding community that significantly expands gameplay possibilities, with players describing the experience as both challenging and immersive due to the extraordinary level of complexity available when building vehicles from the ground up. The title holds a 91% positive rating from over 40,000 Steam reviews.
About Stormworks: Build and Rescue: Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
Players who liked Stormworks: Build and Rescue also play
Steam players who put hours into Stormworks: Build and Rescue 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.
I Fetch Rocks
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Top pick for Stormworks: Build and Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Embark on your asteroid hauling career with Veritago Fortana. Start with a basic ship and earn credits to upgrade, customise and repair as you try to fulfil larger and harder contracts. Built exclusively for VR, use your own hands to build, wire and fly using 100s of interconnecting components.
Desynced
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Stormworks: Build and Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Stormworks: Build and Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
SimplePlanes
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Ranked #4 for Stormworks: Build and Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Build airplanes by snapping parts together, designing wing sections, and attaching engines. At any time, you can strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies with realistic physics. If you're not in the mood for building, over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free.
Rail Route
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Ranked #5 for Stormworks: Build and Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Ranked #6 for Stormworks: Build and Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
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
Ranked #7 for Stormworks: Build and Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
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.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Stormworks: Build and Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Stormworks: Build and Rescue at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Stormworks: Build and Rescue on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
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.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Stormworks: Build and Rescue on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Stormworks: Build and Rescue on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Stormworks: Build and Rescue on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
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.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Stormworks: Build and Rescue on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
FTL: Faster Than Light
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Stormworks: Build and Rescue on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
PowerWash Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Stormworks: Build and Rescue on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Release the Pressure with PowerWash Simulator! Wash away your worries with the soothing sounds of high-pressure water. Fire up your power washer and blast away every speck of dirt and grime you can find, all with the simple satisfaction of power-washing to a sparkling finish.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Stormworks: Build and Rescue on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ is a free-to-play MMORPG that puts you at the center of your own story-driven saga. Play as a Jedi, Sith, Bounty Hunter, or one of many other iconic STAR WARS roles in the galaxy far, far away over three thousand years before the classic films.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
SimplePlanes
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Build airplanes by snapping parts together, designing wing sections, and attaching engines. At any time, you can strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies with realistic physics. If you're not in the mood for building, over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free.
Rail Route
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
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 Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
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.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
Frequently asked about Stormworks: Build and Rescue
- Does Stormworks: Build and Rescue run on Steam Deck?
- Stormworks: Build and Rescue is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Stormworks: Build and Rescue cost?
- Stormworks: Build and Rescue is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Stormworks: Build and Rescue have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Stormworks: Build and Rescue supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Stormworks: Build and Rescue?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Stormworks: Build and Rescue are I Fetch Rocks, Desynced, Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure.
- Who developed Stormworks: Build and Rescue?
- Stormworks: Build and Rescue was developed by Geometa.
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