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2026PCSteam Deck verified93 % positive29.99 €

You play the first sentient AI in a city full of possibilities, choosing whether to build a robot army, rule as a benevolent machine overlord, or chase other goals. A blend of strategy, sandbox and RPG elements leaves many paths to your objectives.

  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Choices with consequences
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Economy and management
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The closest matches for Heart of the Machine are Stardeus, RimWorld and Surviving Mars. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Heart of the Machine special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Stardeus

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2022PCSteam Deck verified87 % positive29.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Heart of the Machine: economy and management, a sci-fi setting as well as complex systems to tinker with.

As an immortal AI you rebuild a wrecked spaceship in a colony-sim style, automating production and deciding how to treat the human survivors. It blends base building, resource management and exploration in space.

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RimWorld

Sandbox with your own goals

A colony sim where an AI storyteller turns raids, famines and your settlers' personal dramas into unique, often darkly funny emergent stories. Its deep simulation and per-colonist management make every run unpredictable.

Surviving Mars

Economy and management

A city builder where you found a Mars colony and keep it alive with domes, drones and careful resource management. The appeal lies in planning supply chains and surviving hostile conditions.

The Crust

Sandbox with your own goals

You build and automate a lunar colony that Earth relies on, mining regolith, running conveyor and drone factories, looking after colonists and trading with rival factions. A story campaign with multiple endings adds direction to the sandbox.

Space Haven

Sandbox with your own goals

A spaceship colony sim where you build ships tile by tile, manage air and power, and look after the needs and moods of a ragtag crew as you travel the galaxy in search of a new home.

Stellaris

Sandbox with your own goals

Paradox's space grand strategy lets you shape a custom alien empire from its first hyperlane jump to galactic dominance, generating emergent stories through anomalies, diplomacy and late-game crises.

Oxygen Not Included

Sandbox with your own goals

A deep colony sim inside an asteroid where you keep your Duplicants alive by managing oxygen, heat, food and waste through interlocking physics-like systems. Spectacular failures are part of the fun, often with dark humor.

The Last Starship

Sandbox with your own goals

A starship simulation from Introversion Software where you build your own ship from hull, engines, life support, sensors and weapons, then set out across the galaxy. It is an early alpha, so this rating is provisional.

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