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Wild Factor · 2018 · Windows, macOS, Linux
Steam: 65 % positive of 775 reviews, as of Oct 18
Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!
24 games that play like MachiaVillain and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Unholy Heights, Evil Genius and War for the Overworld.
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Plays like MachiaVillain
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Unholy Heights
88 % positive of 1,587
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Management
Evil Genius
93 % positive of 3,506
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Villain Protagonist
War for the Overworld
85 % positive of 7,837
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Villain Protagonist
Ravenous Devils
92 % positive of 8,693
Shared: Simulation · Villain Protagonist · Management
Ruinarch
65 % positive of 1,348
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Villain Protagonist
Deck of Haunts
86 % positive of 446
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Base-Building
Evil Genius 2: World Domination
68 % positive of 12,641
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Villain Protagonist
Hell Architect
69 % positive of 432
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Base-Building
Prison Architect
89 % positive of 72,330
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Base-Building
The Fabulous Fear Machine
90 % positive of 519
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Villain Protagonist
Dungeon Tycoon
79 % positive of 1,191
Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Management
Dungeon Keeper™ 2
94 % positive of 998
Shared: Strategy · Villain Protagonist · Base-Building
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- Hell Architect: Prologue82 % positive of 832Shared: Strategy · Base-Building · Management
- Graveyard Keeper86 % positive of 43,647Shared: Simulation · Management · Building
- Basement70 % positive of 2,204Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Base-Building
- Yog-Sothoth’s Yard94 % positive of 11,705Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Base-Building
- Blood Bar Tycoon80 % positive of 563Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Base-Building
- Dungeons 394 % positive of 18,382Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Villain Protagonist
- Rise to Ruins88 % positive of 7,652Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Base-Building
- Manor Lords86 % positive of 72,120Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Base-Building
- Ghost Master®89 % positive of 1,876Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Villain Protagonist
- The Tenants80 % positive of 7,042Shared: Strategy · Simulation · Base-Building
- Town of Salem88 % positive of 36,409Shared: Strategy · Indie · 2D
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Looks like MachiaVillain
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Oxygen Not Included
96 % positive of 128,390
Don't Starve Together
95 % positive of 499,061
The Escapists 2
90 % positive of 31,948
RimWorld
97 % positive of 210,517
Prison Architect
89 % positive of 72,330
Beholder
91 % positive of 27,747
Door Kickers 2: Task Force North
95 % positive of 10,848
Railroads & Catacombs
80 % positive of 324
Terminus: Zombie Survivors
94 % positive of 3,997
Back to the Dawn
92 % positive of 4,935
The Masterplan
62 % positive of 524
ZERO Sievert
85 % positive of 13,238
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- Intravenous90 % positive of 4,813
- Keplerth84 % positive of 4,027
- Nobody Saves the World91 % positive of 6,169
- Little Triangle89 % positive of 577
- Charlie Murder95 % positive of 2,413
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At a glance
What games like MachiaVillain have in common
- The tags they share most often with MachiaVillain: Strategy (22 of 24), Simulation (21) and Base-Building (11).
- They came out between 2006 and 2025, 15 of them after MachiaVillain (2018).
- Best rated by Steam players: Yog-Sothoth’s Yard (94 % positive of 11,705).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.