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Atrio: The Dark Wild

2023

Should you play it?

Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.

What works

  • Unique dark and humorous setting
  • Engaging automation and factory building
  • Strong story and characters
  • Creative mechanics involving animals
  • Good value and developer support

Things to keep in mind

  • Some frustrating ui and inventory management
  • Combat and survival mechanics can be tedious
  • Limited multiplayer or social features
  • Early access bugs and polish issues
  • Slow pacing and repetitive tasks for some players

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • AETHUS

  • Microtopia

  • Balrum

  • Sixty Four

  • Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy

  • Backpack Hero

More violent

Games that feels like Atrio: The Dark Wild but with more combat and destruction

  • Brigador: Up-Armored Edition

  • Godlike Burger

  • UnderRail

  • Enter the Chronosphere

  • Escape From Duckov

  • Tiny Tactics

More leadership-focused

Games that feels like Atrio: The Dark Wild but with more leadership over others

  • The Crust

  • Gnomoria

  • From Glory To Goo

  • Space Haven

  • Definitely Not Fried Chicken

  • Elin

Less fantastical

Games that feels like Atrio: The Dark Wild but with less imaginative fiction

  • Good Company

  • Rise of Industry

  • Little Big Workshop

  • Cardboard Town

  • Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation

  • Nebuchadnezzar

Choose your own criteria ->

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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Atrio: The Dark Wild: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Leadership, Thrill.

Last update: 03/08/2026