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Games like Autonomica

If Autonomica is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space, FortressCraft Evolved! and Moose Builders — 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.

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About Autonomica: A survival automation game set in an alternate 1980s. Build supply chains where farming fuels chemistry and mining drives manufacturing. Rebuild a world fractured by failed time experiments - solo or co-op. Launch time-jump extractions into unstable futures for tech that shouldn't exist yet.

StrategyIndieAdventureSimulationWindowsby Crytivo
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Players who liked Autonomica also play

Steam players who put hours into Autonomica 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. Space

    WHY THIS

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

    Stranded on a hostile alien world, you must gather resources, craft tools, and automate production to survive. Build a base, fend off deadly wildlife, and uncover ancient secrets in this immersive sci-fi survival adventure. Will you conquer the planet or succumb to its perils?

    ActionIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  2. FortressCraft Evolved!

    WHY THIS

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

    FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

    2015StrategyIndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Moose Builders

    WHY THIS

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

    Dig sand with a shovel and process into iron, silicon and more. Craft and merge better tools and machines to build solar panels to power them. Research new machines to automate everything in multi-story factories. Play alone or with friends to survive in the desert and turn it into a solar farm.

    StrategyAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  4. Satisfactory

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  5. Nested Lands

    WHY THIS

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

    Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Blossom: The Seed of Life

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2026IndieAdventure13.59 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Palworld

    WHY THIS

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

    Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

    2026ActionIndieAdventure20.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Island Beekeeper

    WHY THIS

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

    Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

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

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

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

    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!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Aircar

    WHY THIS

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

    A simple immersive flying game built for VR. Pilot an aircar through a futuristic cityscape.

    2019IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  5. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

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

    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!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams

    WHY THIS

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

    Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!

    2021IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine

    WHY THIS

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

    Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.

    2023StrategySimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Satisfactory

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Autonomica.

    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 ↗
  2. Blossom: The Seed of Life

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Autonomica.

    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.

    2026IndieAdventure13.59 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Palworld

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Autonomica.

    Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

    2026ActionIndieAdventure20.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Autonomica

Does Autonomica have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Autonomica supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
What games are most similar to Autonomica?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Autonomica are Space, FortressCraft Evolved!, Moose Builders.
Who developed Autonomica?
Autonomica was developed by Crytivo.

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 Autonomica.

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