Games like National Machine
If National Machine is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ground of Aces, Primitive Society Simulator and Voxel Tycoon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 National Machine: You are a munitions manufacturer in 1930s. Help your nation for arms race. Before war break, you need to produce enough aircraft, tanks and guns.
Players who liked National Machine also play
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Ground of Aces
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with National Machine.
Top pick for National Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with National Machine.
Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!
Primitive Society Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with National Machine.
Second-strongest match for National Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with National Machine.
A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.
Voxel Tycoon
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for National Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with National Machine.
Voxel Tycoon — a management sim set in the infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods on your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!
Railway Empire 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with National Machine.
Ranked #4 for National Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with National Machine.
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
Railway Empire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with National Machine.
Ranked #5 for National Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with National Machine.
In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.
RAILGRADE
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with National Machine.
Ranked #6 for National Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with National Machine.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Making History: The Second World War
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with National Machine.
Ranked #7 for National Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with National Machine.
Choose a nation and prepare for the greatest conflict in human history, World War II. Build your military and industrial power, form alliances and race to achieve the advanced technologies that will bring total victory in this global-wide turn-based Grand Strategy struggle.
Norland
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with National Machine.
Ranked #8 for National Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with National Machine.
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below National Machine at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under National Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with National Machine.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under National Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with National Machine.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under National Machine on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with National Machine.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under National Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with National Machine.
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 ~50% under National Machine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with National Machine.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under National Machine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with National Machine.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under National Machine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with National Machine.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under National Machine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with National Machine.
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.
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 National Machine.
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 National Machine.
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?
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 National Machine.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with National Machine.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with National Machine.
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!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with National Machine.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with National Machine.
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 National Machine
- How much does National Machine cost?
- National Machine is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to National Machine?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside National Machine are Ground of Aces, Primitive Society Simulator, Voxel Tycoon.
- Who developed National Machine?
- National Machine was developed by Eric Sun.
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 National Machine.
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