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Games like Rebots

If Rebots is your kind of game, the closest matches are Icaria, Microtopia and Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its exploration of diverse asteroids, challenging and cozy. 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 Rebots: Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!

2024IndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby FlatPonies
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Adorable robot designs and personalitiesAutomation feels optional but satisfying when usedExploration of diverse asteroidsChallengingCozyLighthearted

Players who liked Rebots also play

Steam players who put hours into Rebots 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. Icaria

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Rebots.

    Top pick for Rebots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Rebots.

    Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.

    2025SimulationEarly Access24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Microtopia

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Rebots.

    Second-strongest match for Rebots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Rebots.

    Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

    2025StrategySimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a cozy mood with Rebots.

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

    Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation4.79 USDSteam ↗
  4. Stardeus

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Rebots.

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

    Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation20.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Surviving Mars

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Rebots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Rebots.

    There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.

    2018StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  6. Per Aspera

    WHY THIS

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

    Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. FOUNDRY

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Rebots.

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

    Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation20.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Autonauts

    WHY THIS

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

    In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

    2019IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Rebots on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rebots.

    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 ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Rebots on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rebots.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Rebots on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rebots.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Rebots on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rebots.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Rebots on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rebots.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Rebots on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rebots.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Rebots on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rebots.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Rebots on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rebots.

    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.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 ↗
  8. Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel

    WHY THIS

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

    The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...

    2017IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Rebots

Does Rebots run on Steam Deck?
Rebots 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 Rebots cost?
Rebots is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Rebots?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rebots are Icaria, Microtopia, Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder.
Who developed Rebots?
Rebots was developed by FlatPonies and published by Astra Logical.

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 Rebots.

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