Games Like Mainlining (2026)

Shared: tier:aaa

Four years in early access forged something genuinely worth your time: a co-op survival builder that starts punishing and ends with you proudly steering a multi-story floating fortress. Solo players, brace for a rough first two hours.

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The dating-sim wrapper is bait, and MiSide knows it. What starts as idle chores with an anime girl becomes a genre-hopping psychological horror that two developers built better than most studios manage with a full team.

Shared: tier:aaa

Hardcore survival that punishes guesswork and rewards obsessive resource tracking, five years of post-launch updates have turned this Amazon sim into one of the genre's most complete packages.

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Scrappy tycoon meets street-level hustle: Schedule I turns supply-chain management into something you'll lose sleep over, and it launched as a solo-dev Early Access title that outpaced GTA V on Steam charts.

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A five-person studio built a Tarkov parody that somehow outgrew the joke. If you've ever wanted extraction-shooter tension without a lobby full of strangers hunting you, this is the most accessible version of that feeling you'll find.