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Games like Gunsmith

If Gunsmith is your kind of game, the closest matches are Techtonica, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation and Production Line : Car factory simulation — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative 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.

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About Gunsmith: Build up your own arms manufacturing company. Find your factory, buy resources, produce a wide range of military equipment to sell to the highest bidder. Good or bad? That's up to you, who you do business with is your choice. Don't ask, don't tell, get paid. After all, war is about making money.

2018ActionStrategyIndieSimulationCasualEarly Access19.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby SCT
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Blend of factory sim and crime boss mini simComplex supply chains reward optimizationConveyor belt logistics feel satisfying to designChallengingContemplativeDark

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Steam players who put hours into Gunsmith 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. Techtonica

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Gunsmith.

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

    Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Gunsmith.

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

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Production Line : Car factory simulation

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Gunsmith.

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

    Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Eco

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Gunsmith.

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

    Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.

    2018IndieSimulationEarly Access29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Startup Company

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Gunsmith.

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

    Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Good Company

    WHY THIS

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

    Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Dyson Sphere Program

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Gunsmith.

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

    Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Ostriv

    WHY THIS

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

    Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Gunsmith

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Factorio

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Gunsmith.

    Reviewers of Gunsmith cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gunsmith.

    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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Satisfactory

    WHY THIS

    Shares factory automation and a contemplative mood with Gunsmith.

    Reviewers of Gunsmith cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gunsmith.

    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!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Gunsmith.

    Reviewers of Gunsmith cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Gunsmith.

    Create a team with up to 3 friends in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Wildlands and enjoy the ultimate military shooter experience set in a massive, dangerous, and responsive open world.

    2017ActionAdventure49.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Commando Fodder: War Dogs

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Gunsmith cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Gunsmith.

    Commando Fodder: War Dogs is a traditional RTS, where you have to lead your platoon to victory by crushing the enemy using AK47's, rockets and mines!

    2019ActionStrategyIndie1.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Escape from Tarkov

    WHY THIS

    Shares a stressful mood with Gunsmith.

    Reviewers of Gunsmith cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Simulation with Gunsmith.

    Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.

    2025ActionSimulationMassively Multiplayer49.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Call of Duty: World at War

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Gunsmith.

    Reviewers of Gunsmith cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Gunsmith.

    Call of Duty is back, redefining war like you've never experienced before. Building on the Call of Duty 4®: Modern Warfare engine, Call of Duty: World at War immerses players into the most gritty and chaotic WWII combat ever experienced.

    2008Action19.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Evil Genius

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Gunsmith.

    Reviewers of Gunsmith cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Gunsmith.

    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...

    2009Strategy9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Gunsmith.

    Reviewers of Gunsmith cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Gunsmith.

    Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.

    2015ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gunsmith at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Gunsmith on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Gunsmith.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Gunsmith on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gunsmith.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Gunsmith on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Gunsmith.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Gunsmith on Steam right now. Shares Action with Gunsmith.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Gunsmith on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Gunsmith.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Gunsmith on Steam right now. Shares Action with Gunsmith.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Gunsmith on Steam right now. Shares Action with Gunsmith.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Gunsmith on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gunsmith.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Gunsmith.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  4. 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 Gunsmith.

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

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

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Gunsmith.

    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 ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

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

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

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

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from SCT

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

  1. Prospekt

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Gunsmith.

    Another title from SCT, the studio behind Gunsmith. Shares Action with Gunsmith.

    Prospekt begins in the Nova Prospekt prison in the Half-Life universe. Gordon Freeman is slowly being overrun by soldiers in the prison, however unknown to him, his Vortigaunt allies manage to find some help from a forgotten hero.

    2016Action5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. JUNKPUNK

    WHY THIS

    Shares factory automation and a contemplative mood with Gunsmith.

    Another title from SCT, the studio behind Gunsmith. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gunsmith.

    JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.

    2021IndieAdventureSimulation15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Kinetic Edge

    WHY THIS

    Another title from SCT, the studio behind Gunsmith. Shares Indie and Casual with Gunsmith.

    Kinetic Edge is a physics platformer based racing game where you have to figure out the best way to overcome obstacle courses with a shape of your choice. Play on your own, with friends or multiplayer!

    2021IndieAdventureCasual7.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Blockville

    WHY THIS

    Another title from SCT, the studio behind Gunsmith. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gunsmith.

    Blockville is a relaxing, funny, stylized city building simulation game where you can build a city inspired by the toys you all used to play with as a child. A mix of modern day city building sim with a comedy twist. Now you have an excuse to play again as an adult in this stylized city sim.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Gunsmith

Does Gunsmith run on Steam Deck?
Gunsmith 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 Gunsmith cost?
Gunsmith is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Gunsmith?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gunsmith are Techtonica, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation, Production Line : Car factory simulation.
Who developed Gunsmith?
Gunsmith was developed by SCT.

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 Gunsmith.

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