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Games like Nightwater
Studio Ashty · 2026 · Windows
Steam: 82 % positive of 162 reviews, as of Oct 28
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
24 games that play like Nightwater and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Sandustry, Factorio and Nova Lands.
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Plays and looks like Nightwater
These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like Nightwater
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Sandustry
97 % positive of 5,608
Factorio
97 % positive of 193,208
Shared: Open World · Automation · Resource Management
Nova Lands
90 % positive of 2,531
Shared: Open World · Automation · Resource Management
Satisfactory
97 % positive of 236,870
Shared: Open World · Automation · Resource Management
Hydroneer
85 % positive of 27,308
Shared: Open World · Automation · Resource Management
Outpath
92 % positive of 2,953
Shared: Open World · Automation · Resource Management
Forager
88 % positive of 35,609
Shared: Open World · Resource Management · Crafting
Captain of Industry
90 % positive of 11,203
Shared: Automation · Resource Management · Simulation
AutoForge
86 % positive of 445
Shared: Open World · Automation · Resource Management
Core Keeper
91 % positive of 51,032
Shared: Crafting · Sandbox · Relaxing
Timberborn
96 % positive of 39,101
Shared: Automation · Sandbox · Simulation
Factory Town Idle
90 % positive of 1,241
Shared: Automation · Resource Management · Clicker
More matches
- Havendock80 % positive of 1,510Shared: Open World · Automation · Resource Management
- My Time at Sandrock87 % positive of 24,249Shared: Open World · Crafting · Sandbox
- Farthest Frontier86 % positive of 24,632Shared: Resource Management · Simulation · Building
- Outpath: First Journey95 % positive of 4,649Shared: Automation · Resource Management · Clicker
- MineMogul96 % positive of 4,480
- Forage Wizard85 % positive of 1,641
- Factory Town90 % positive of 4,161Shared: Automation · Resource Management · Crafting
- Flotsam80 % positive of 4,390Shared: Open World · Automation · Resource Management
- Eden Crafters84 % positive of 2,589Shared: Open World · Automation · Resource Management
- Craft The World87 % positive of 15,138Shared: Open World · Resource Management · Crafting
- refarm86 % positive of 298Shared: Automation · Resource Management · Clicker
- Out of Ore83 % positive of 4,055Shared: Open World · Resource Management · Crafting
By look
Looks like Nightwater
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
A Game About Digging A Hole™
89 % positive of 19,037
Outpath: First Journey
95 % positive of 4,649
Outpath
92 % positive of 2,953
Smithworks
90 % positive of 2,332
The RPG Engine
84 % positive of 303
My Time at Portia
90 % positive of 34,884
FlyKnight Enhanced Edition
95 % positive of 10,621
Stonewards
93 % positive of 920
Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
92 % positive of 352
Scrapnaut: Prologue
86 % positive of 702
Len's Island
82 % positive of 5,997
The Artisan of Glimmith
96 % positive of 2,726
More matches
- Epistory - Typing Chronicles93 % positive of 4,043
- Orebound76 % positive of 965
- Project: Gorgon80 % positive of 4,729
- Map Map - A Game About Maps91 % positive of 278
- Stonehearth76 % positive of 10,664
- Don't get lost78 % positive of 479
- Eternal Edge+ Prologue89 % positive of 2,027
- HammerHelm76 % positive of 335
- RUMBLE86 % positive of 3,158
- Tree of Life65 % positive of 6,652
- Ark of Charon74 % positive of 391
- Citywars Tower Defense79 % positive of 1,126
At a glance
What games like Nightwater have in common
- The tags they share most often with Nightwater: Resource Management (18 of 24), Automation (15) and Open World (13).
- They came out between 2014 and 2026, none of them after Nightwater (2026).
- Best rated by Steam players: Sandustry (97 % positive of 5,608).
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.