Games like IXION
If IXION is your kind of game, the closest matches are Frostpunk, Endzone - A World Apart and The Crust — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its building layout optimization, compelling narrative and space exploration rewards. 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 →IXION is a space-station survival builder developed by Bulwark Studios and published by Kasedo Games. Players manage the Tiqqun, a prototype station drifting through the void, as they construct infrastructure, manage resources, and sustain their crew across multiple chapters. The game combines base-building and logistical chains with a narrative that unfolds through exploration. Reviewers highlight the compelling narrative and the way strategic challenges reward careful planning and resource management. Players describe the experience as tense and melancholic, with hull decay creating constant pressure to adapt. Released in 2022 at $34.99, it offers a demanding long-form experience for solo players on PC, with support for Steam Deck at playable settings.
About IXION: IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Players who liked IXION also play
Steam players who put hours into IXION 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.
Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a stressful mood with IXION.
Top pick for IXION fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with IXION.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a stressful mood with IXION.
Second-strongest match for IXION fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with IXION.
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.
The Crust
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with IXION.
Third-strongest match for IXION fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with IXION.
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for IXION fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with IXION.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Space Haven
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with IXION.
Ranked #5 for IXION fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with IXION.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Planetbase
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with IXION.
Ranked #6 for IXION fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with IXION.
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with IXION.
Ranked #7 for IXION fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with IXION.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Captain of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares space exploration with IXION.
Ranked #8 for IXION fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with IXION.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Reviewers mention these as similar to IXION
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Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a stressful mood with IXION.
Reviewers of IXION cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with IXION.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Stellaris
WHY THIS
Reviewers of IXION cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with IXION.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Reviewers of IXION cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with IXION.
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.
Cliff Empire
WHY THIS
Reviewers of IXION cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with IXION.
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Reviewers of IXION cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with IXION.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Reviewers of IXION cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with IXION.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Manor Lords
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with IXION.
Reviewers of IXION cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with IXION.
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
dotAGE
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with IXION.
Reviewers of IXION cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with IXION.
Village elder, help us! The Apocalypse is approaching, and we need your guidance to survive. Assign your workers and build a thriving village against the pending doom. DotAGE is the merciless survival roguelite turn-based city builder. Will you fulfill the Prophecy?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below IXION at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under IXION on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with IXION.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under IXION on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with IXION.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under IXION on Steam right now. Shares Indie with IXION.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under IXION on Steam right now. Shares Indie with IXION.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under IXION on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with IXION.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under IXION on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with IXION.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under IXION on Steam right now. Shares Indie with IXION.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Indie with IXION.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with IXION.
‘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 IXION.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with IXION.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with IXION.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with IXION.
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.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with IXION.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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More from Bulwark Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Bulwark Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with IXION.
Another title from Bulwark Studios, the studio behind IXION. Shares Strategy with IXION.
MECHANICUS II ANNOUNCED! Take control of one of the most technologically advanced factions in the Imperium: the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this turn-based tactical game, your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the conflict. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?
Crowntakers
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with IXION.
Another title from Bulwark Studios, the studio behind IXION. Shares Strategy and Indie with IXION.
Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a tense mood with IXION.
Another title from Bulwark Studios, the studio behind IXION. Shares Strategy with IXION.
Fast-paced tactical combat meets strategic management in this sequel to the acclaimed Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus. Take control of either the ancient and deathless Necron legions or the techno-religious acolytes of the Omnissiah, with the fate of a world in your hands.
Frequently asked about IXION
- Does IXION run on Steam Deck?
- IXION 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 IXION cost?
- IXION is listed on Steam at 34.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to IXION?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside IXION are Frostpunk, Endzone - A World Apart, The Crust.
- Who developed IXION?
- IXION was developed by Bulwark Studios and published by Kasedo Games.
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