Games like Astronaut: The Best
If Astronaut: The Best is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gobby McGobblenutz Presents - The Questionably Quirky Quiz Show, Survivor Dieland and Heading Out — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its failure is actually fun, challenging and comedic. 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 Astronaut: The Best: Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
Players who liked Astronaut: The Best also play
Steam players who put hours into Astronaut: The Best 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.
Gobby McGobblenutz Presents - The Questionably Quirky Quiz Show
WHY THIS
Top pick for Astronaut: The Best fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astronaut: The Best.
Are you Quirky enough to win The Questionably Quirky Quiz Show with Gobby McGobblenutz, and permanently enter your name into the Hall of Legends for other players around the world to see how incredibly awesome you are?! Well then... What are you waiting for?!
Survivor Dieland
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Astronaut: The Best fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Astronaut: The Best.
You're gonna get yourself killed being out here all by your lonesome... There's monsters on this island! Besides, It's not always the beasts you should be afraid of... Beasts are easy to predict. They just want to kill and eat you. Humans are much harder... They'll pretend to be your friend first...
Heading Out
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Astronaut: The Best fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astronaut: The Best.
Flee your fear and carve your story. Blaze a trail across mythic American highways, where choices twist your tale and danger’s always in the rearview mirror. With roguelike routes, limited resources, and breakneck chases, this isn’t just a drive—it’s your legend in the making.
CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience
WHY THIS
Shares time management with Astronaut: The Best.
Ranked #4 for Astronaut: The Best fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astronaut: The Best.
CHANGE is an award nominated homeless survival experience set in a randomly created city with rogue-like elements. Explore, survive, earn perks, find items & kindness to develop your character & escape to a new life. Over 7 years of development & over 200 updates so far!
Football Drama
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Astronaut: The Best.
Ranked #5 for Astronaut: The Best fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astronaut: The Best.
There is a story behind every goal. You're Rocco Galliano, the existentially troubled manager of a struggling football team. Train players, choose your own narrative, survive the drama, and play turn-based football matches via tactical cards and hard choices.
Endless Dark
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression with Astronaut: The Best.
Ranked #6 for Astronaut: The Best fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astronaut: The Best.
An existential horror game in which you are tasked with keeping a sleeper colony ship intact. No enemies or NPCs share the ship with you - only creaking metal echoes and endless dark. Overcome random events, system failures, and the downward spiral of your sanity to see your mission through.
Void War
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and a challenging mood with Astronaut: The Best.
Ranked #7 for Astronaut: The Best fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astronaut: The Best.
Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.
Dark Nights with Poe and Munro
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Astronaut: The Best.
Ranked #8 for Astronaut: The Best fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astronaut: The Best.
Guide local radio hosts Poe and Munro through six TV-like episodes of supernatural strangeness and sizzling on-screen chemistry. From the creators of The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and The Shapeshifting Detective.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Astronaut: The Best at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Astronaut: The Best on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astronaut: The Best.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Astronaut: The Best on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Astronaut: The Best.
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 ~47% under Astronaut: The Best on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astronaut: The Best.
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 ~50% under Astronaut: The Best on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Astronaut: The Best.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Astronaut: The Best on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astronaut: The Best.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Astronaut: The Best on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astronaut: The Best.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Astronaut: The Best on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astronaut: The Best.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Astronaut: The Best on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Astronaut: The Best.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 Astronaut: The Best.
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 Adventure with Astronaut: The Best.
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 Astronaut: The Best.
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 Astronaut: The Best.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astronaut: The Best.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astronaut: The Best.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astronaut: The Best.
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.
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Frequently asked about Astronaut: The Best
- Is Astronaut: The Best verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Astronaut: The Best is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Astronaut: The Best cost?
- Astronaut: The Best is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Astronaut: The Best?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Astronaut: The Best are Gobby McGobblenutz Presents - The Questionably Quirky Quiz Show, Survivor Dieland, Heading Out.
- Who developed Astronaut: The Best?
- Astronaut: The Best was developed by Universal Happymaker.
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 Astronaut: The Best.
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