Games like Desert Skies
If Desert Skies is your kind of game, the closest matches are Outlaws of the Old West, Volcanoids and Heat Death: Survival Train — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmosphere feels immersive, creative freedom shines and soundtrack is hauntingly beautiful. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Desert Skies: Desert Skies takes survival to the air! Build an airship and fly on an adventure through the deserts of the Wild West. Look for places to land and scavenge for loot, expand your airship and craft new equipment, but beware the dangers lurking beneath the sands!
Players who liked Desert Skies also play
Steam players who put hours into Desert Skies also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Outlaws of the Old West
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desert Skies.
Top pick for Desert Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Desert Skies.
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Volcanoids
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desert Skies.
Second-strongest match for Desert Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Desert Skies.
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Heat Death: Survival Train
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Desert Skies.
Third-strongest match for Desert Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Desert Skies.
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Subsistence
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desert Skies.
Ranked #4 for Desert Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Desert Skies.
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Bermuda - Lost Survival
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and an atmospheric mood with Desert Skies.
Ranked #5 for Desert Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Desert Skies.
Survivors, Adventurers, Explorers! Prepare for the journey of your life and experience one of the world’s most mysterious regions! The Bermuda Triangle is notorious for the vanishing of countless ships and airplanes. Will you survive long enough to reveal its secret?
Hold Your Own
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Desert Skies.
Ranked #6 for Desert Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Desert Skies.
A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?
Mist Survival
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Desert Skies.
Ranked #7 for Desert Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Desert Skies.
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desert Skies.
Ranked #8 for Desert Skies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Desert Skies.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Desert Skies at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Desert Skies on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desert Skies.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Desert Skies on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Desert Skies.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Desert Skies on Steam right now. Shares Action with Desert Skies.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Desert Skies on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Desert Skies.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Desert Skies on Steam right now. Shares Action with Desert Skies.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desert Skies.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Desert Skies.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Desert Skies.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Desert Skies.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desert Skies.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Desert Skies.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Desert Skies.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Desert Skies.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about Desert Skies
- How much does Desert Skies cost?
- Desert Skies is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Desert Skies?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Desert Skies are Outlaws of the Old West, Volcanoids, Heat Death: Survival Train.
- Who developed Desert Skies?
- Desert Skies was developed by White_Rabbit_Games.
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