Games like Locomotion
If Locomotion is your kind of game, the closest matches are Busway Islands - Puzzle, Railway Routes and Hamster on Rails — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its charming art style, satisfying puzzle solutions and chill. 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 Locomotion: Locomotion is a steamy railway puzzler. An alien stole your gold, and you’ve got to chase them into space to get it back. Haul wagons, flick switches, and reclaim your lost gold, through fifty-one increasingly tricky levels from home on the range to the final frontier.
Players who liked Locomotion also play
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Busway Islands - Puzzle
WHY THIS
Top pick for Locomotion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Locomotion.
Busway Islands is a puzzle game about organizing roads and rails across a large archipelago. Your goal is to create a safe and efficient route between bus stations, ensuring that all passengers are picked up along the way.
Railway Routes
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Locomotion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Locomotion.
Guide trains, build tracks, and solve relaxing grid-based railway puzzles. Plan the perfect route across 100+ handcrafted levels and watch your railway come to life.
Hamster on Rails
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Locomotion.
Third-strongest match for Locomotion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Locomotion.
Embark on this adventure through different worlds with your friend, the railway builder Hamster! Help the Hamster village collect minerals by building crazy railways to solve fun challenges.
Cosmic Express
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Locomotion.
Ranked #4 for Locomotion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Locomotion.
Plan the train route for the universe's most awkward space colony!
FIND ALL 3: Travel
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Locomotion.
Ranked #5 for Locomotion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Locomotion.
Look for hidden cats, raccoons, other animals and objects, color this painted world. You have to go on an exciting journey through different levels. More than 1500 items of varying difficulty are waiting for you!
Train Valley
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Locomotion.
Ranked #6 for Locomotion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Locomotion.
Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!
A Monster's Expedition
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Locomotion.
Ranked #7 for Locomotion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Locomotion.
An adorable and relaxing open world puzzle adventure for monsters who love to learn about humans!
Train Valley 2
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Locomotion.
Ranked #8 for Locomotion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Locomotion.
Build bigger and more complex railway networks than ever before! Building on the success of the original, you’ll get more of what you loved about the original and then some. With increasingly difficult and complex challenges from local industries, the Valley has never felt so vast! ALL ABOARD!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Locomotion at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Locomotion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Locomotion.
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 ~44% under Locomotion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Locomotion.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Locomotion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Locomotion.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Locomotion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Locomotion.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Locomotion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Locomotion.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Locomotion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Locomotion.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Locomotion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Locomotion.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Locomotion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Locomotion.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Locomotion.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Locomotion.
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 Casual with Locomotion.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Locomotion.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Locomotion.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Locomotion.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about Locomotion
- How much does Locomotion cost?
- Locomotion is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Locomotion?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Locomotion are Busway Islands - Puzzle, Railway Routes, Hamster on Rails.
- Who developed Locomotion?
- Locomotion was developed by Polyfox.
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