Games like Before We Leave
If Before We Leave is your kind of game, the closest matches are Endzone - A World Apart, Anno 2205™ and STARIO: Haven Tower — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, cozy and relaxing. 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 Before We Leave: Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.
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Steam players who put hours into Before We Leave 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.
Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Top pick for Before We Leave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Before We Leave.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Anno 2205™
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Before We Leave.
Second-strongest match for Before We Leave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Before We Leave.
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
STARIO: Haven Tower
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Before We Leave.
Third-strongest match for Before We Leave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Before We Leave.
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Planet Zoo
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Before We Leave.
Ranked #4 for Before We Leave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Before We Leave.
Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.
TerraScape
WHY THIS
Shares adjacency bonuses and a chill mood with Before We Leave.
Ranked #5 for Before We Leave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Before We Leave.
Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy, medieval City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.
InfraSpace
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Before We Leave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Before We Leave.
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Jurassic World Evolution 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Before We Leave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Before We Leave.
Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation.
Foundation
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Before We Leave.
Ranked #8 for Before We Leave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Before We Leave.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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Factorio
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Before We Leave cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Before We Leave.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Save the settlers
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Before We Leave cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Before We Leave.
This is a tower defense game in which you have to defend a settlement from bloodthirsty creatures.
The Settlers: New Allies
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Before We Leave.
Reviewers of Before We Leave cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Before We Leave.
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Before We Leave at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Before We Leave on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Before We Leave.
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 Before We Leave on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Before We Leave.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Before We Leave on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Before We Leave.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Before We Leave on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Before We Leave.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Before We Leave on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Before We Leave.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Before We Leave on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Before We Leave.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Before We Leave.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Before We Leave.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Before We Leave.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Before We Leave.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Before We Leave.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Before We Leave.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Before We Leave.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about Before We Leave
- Does Before We Leave run on Steam Deck?
- Before We Leave is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Before We Leave cost?
- Before We Leave is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Before We Leave?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Before We Leave are Endzone - A World Apart, Anno 2205™, STARIO: Haven Tower.
- Who developed Before We Leave?
- Before We Leave was developed by Balancing Monkey Games and published by Team17.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Before We Leave.
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