Games like Save the Reactor

Remember how replayable and funny Save the Reactor felt at its best? Give these games a try when the craving hits.

Nucleares
Run a nuclear power plant from the inside: over 200 parameters, 150 switches and a reactor that does not forgive sloppy work. Keep the lights on, handle emergencies, and learn the hard way why this job pays well. A deep, demanding simulator for people who like their problems complicated.
Replayable
84% of 1,146 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$14.99
Feed the Reactor
Feed fuel into a reactor, mix elements until the numbers sing, and warp across a strange galaxy with a secret. A compact incremental game with strategy, automation, and three endings you can reach in one run.
Replayable, Retro, Minimalist
82% of 672 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$6.99
Rasvyat Nuclear Power Station
A co-op RBMK reactor simulator, with a detailed control room, realistic physics and authentic sound design
Replayable, Funny, Tense
80% of 166 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Chernobyl: Simulator
You sit at Reactor 4's control desk, rods, gauges and alarms all yours to manage. Chernobyl: Simulator recreates the RBMK-1000 in serious detail, from routine startup to escalating faults and multiple endings. Slow, strict and rewarding for anyone curious how this machine actually worked.
Replayable, Tense
92% of 88 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$15.99
Please, Don’t Touch Anything
Your colleague steps out for a bathroom break and leaves you with one instruction: touch nothing. In front of you sits a panel with a single red button. A cryptic pixel puzzle box with 25 endings, a shifting chiptune soundtrack and consequences you will not see coming.
Replayable, Funny, Tense
88% of 5,021 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$4.99
Tin Can
Your ship exploded. Now you drift in an escape pod where every fuse, filter and wire matters, armed with a manual and your own wits. Fix systems, watch your breathing go ragged as oxygen runs low, and see how long you last before the cosmos wins.
Replayable, Tense
84% of 1,081 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
Idea Fix
Incremental physics based game about pushing levers, clicking buttons and coming to terms with obsession.
92% of 133 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Neuron Activation
A control hub full of switches, sliders and strange tasks, and a corporate Board that wants them all done. Juggle overlapping micro-challenges, chain actions for bigger scores, and take orders from a Handler you would rather not question. Short, frantic sessions with a story that gets under your skin.
Replayable, Funny, Tense
94% of 117 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$6.99
Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop
A roguelite spaceship repair sim on a lonely space station. Fix procedurally generated ship modules with tools, manuals and shaking hands, pay the ever-rising R.E.N.T to your corporate overlord, and chat with cultists, black hole feeders and worse. Funny, grim, tactile and unlike much else.
Replayable, Funny, Tense
84% of 1,117 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99
60 Seconds! Reatomized
The bomb is 60 seconds away and the house is a mess. Sprint through the rooms, grab supplies, decide who makes it to the shelter, then ration beans and water for a family of four while mutant roaches close in. A dark comedy about survival where every run plays out differently, and most of them end badly. Gloriously.
Replayable, Funny, Tense
94% of 18,569 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 119$9.99
Criticality
A short incremental game about splitting atoms and triggering exponentially growing chain reactions.
Replayable, Funny, Minimalist
92% of 66 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$6.99
How to Make an Atomic Bomb in Your Garden
One quiet Sunday, you look at your backyard and decide it needs an atomic bomb. This absurd single-player comedy sim has you raising funds, bidding on suspicious parts, turning household junk into nuclear equations and dodging nosy neighbors and the IRS. It is short, silly and surprisingly chill: a low-stakes DIY project where the stakes are only theoretical.
Funny
89% of 2,184 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$11.69

Cheaper than Save the Reactor

Hand Simulator

Flick switches, fire revolvers and milk cows while every finger fights you, alone or with friends watching it go wrong.

$1.49

Nauticrawl

A stolen, enigmatic machine is your only way out. It's likely to kill you, but so will the hostile planet you're escaping.

$2.24

Meltdown

Meltdown is a nuclear reactor desk-job simulation where you, as a newly recruited operator, must control the reactor to keep the surrounding city…

$3.39

Stayhome Simulator

The game will teach you how to stay at home, make trips to the store, use masks and various antiseptics. Buckwheat, toilet paper, masks, city pass..

$0.99

Sapper - Defuse The Bomb Simulator

Learn the ins and outs of one of the world's most dangerous professions. Searching, lockpicking, hacking, disarming, operating under pressure.

$1.49

Click the Button

Click the Button is an incremental game about clicking a button to receive chests that deliver incredible rewards.

$2.99

Calm Down, Stalin

Run a country with your own two wobbly hands: deter enemies, sign papers, answer calls and calm your nerves.

$3.99

Water Boiling Simulator

It's 2016. Explore through your house in the middle of the night and complete your chores before the water you put on the stove starts boiling.

$1.50

Mother Simulator

It’s a humorous project about a young parent's difficult weekdays.

$1.99

NSFW ~ Not a Simulator For Working: Highly Distracted

NSFW or Not a Simulator For Working is a casual simulator game where you try not to work anytime you can.

$4.69

Rock Simulator

Be a rock, soak in nature sounds, unlock new landscapes and collect skins while absolutely nothing is asked of you.

$1.99

No Time to Relax

Study, work and invest your way through a turn-based life board game, alone or with up to four players.

$2.79

Hidden gems like Save the Reactor

Retail Hell

You are the only clerk of purgatory's only convenience store, stuck in a shift that never ends.

$7.99

A Simple job

💼 A simple task: Don’t press the red button. Sounds easy? 😏 Featuring an annoying voice, absurd endings, and too many achievements. Free. Pointless.

Free

How to Make an Atomic Bomb in Your Garden

Turn your backyard and a pile of household junk into a very theoretical bomb, one absurd errand at a time.

$11.69

Casualties: Unknown

Descend an alien planet's caves as an expendable test subject, patching wounds and crafting tools to survive each layer.

$19.54

Neuron Activation

Run a strange control hub, juggle the Board's tasks and chase bigger scores in short, frantic sessions.

$6.99

Idea Fix

Incremental physics based game about pushing levers, clicking buttons and coming to terms with obsession.

$9.99

The Electrifying Incident: A Monster Mini-Expedition

An adorable bite-sized adventure from the creators of A Monster’s Expedition - explore the facility, avoid the live electricity, and repair the…

$4.99

FACEMINER

Run a 1999 biometric data rig from a vintage desktop, upgrading it while the office emails turn strange.

$7.99

Simultree

Simultree is a short incremental game about monitoring life simulations.

$6.99

ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs

Repair consoles and phones at your own pace while the people behind them share where their lives went wrong.

$19.99

Nuclear Design Bureau

Draw your design on the grid, run a real detonation simulation, and figure out why it fizzled or why it did not.

$9.99

Feed the Reactor

Feed fuel into a reactor, mix elements until the numbers sing, and warp across a strange galaxy with a secret.

$6.99

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