Games like Elsewhere
If Elsewhere is your kind of game, the closest matches are Factorio, Stellar Shipyard and Satisfactory — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its blueprint rewards automate building, chill and contemplative. 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 Elsewhere: A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.
Players who liked Elsewhere also play
Steam players who put hours into Elsewhere 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.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Elsewhere.
Top pick for Elsewhere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Elsewhere.
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.
Stellar Shipyard
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Elsewhere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elsewhere.
Stellar Shipyard is a space colony sandbox where you design modular ships and stations, and automate resource production using drones and workers. Let the automated systems fly even the most improvised designs. Face rival factions and threats solo, or alongside friends as allies or rivals.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Elsewhere.
Third-strongest match for Elsewhere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elsewhere.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Wonderia
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Elsewhere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Elsewhere.
Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!
Orebound
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Elsewhere.
Ranked #5 for Elsewhere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elsewhere.
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
AETHUS
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Elsewhere.
Ranked #6 for Elsewhere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elsewhere.
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Blossom: The Seed of Life
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Elsewhere.
Ranked #7 for Elsewhere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elsewhere.
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
TerraTech Worlds
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Elsewhere.
Ranked #8 for Elsewhere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elsewhere.
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Elsewhere at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Elsewhere on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Elsewhere.
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 ~69% under Elsewhere on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Elsewhere.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Elsewhere on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Elsewhere.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Elsewhere on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elsewhere.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under Elsewhere on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Elsewhere.
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 ~50% under Elsewhere on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elsewhere.
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 ~69% under Elsewhere on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Elsewhere.
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 ~69% under Elsewhere on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Elsewhere.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Elsewhere.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elsewhere.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Elsewhere.
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 Elsewhere.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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!
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elsewhere.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elsewhere.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Elsewhere.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Elsewhere.
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.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Elsewhere.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elsewhere.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Blossom: The Seed of Life
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Elsewhere.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elsewhere.
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
Frequently asked about Elsewhere
- Does Elsewhere work on Steam Deck?
- Elsewhere is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Elsewhere cost?
- Elsewhere is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Elsewhere have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Elsewhere supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Elsewhere?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Elsewhere are Factorio, Stellar Shipyard, Satisfactory.
- Who developed Elsewhere?
- Elsewhere was developed by Four White Cats.
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 Elsewhere.
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