Games like helionaut
If helionaut is your kind of game, the closest matches are No Man's Sky, Remains and Breathedge — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill 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.
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No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with helionaut.
Top pick for helionaut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with helionaut.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Remains
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with helionaut.
Second-strongest match for helionaut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with helionaut.
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
Breathedge
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for helionaut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with helionaut.
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Space Trash Scavenger
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a chill mood with helionaut.
Ranked #4 for helionaut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with helionaut.
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Starpoint Gemini 3
WHY THIS
Shares crafting with helionaut.
Ranked #5 for helionaut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with helionaut.
Fight, loot, explore and craft in the living open world of Starpoint Gemini 3. Assemble your trusty ship and boost your RPG skills to face all challenges.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with helionaut.
Ranked #6 for helionaut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with helionaut.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
ASTRONEER
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with helionaut.
Ranked #7 for helionaut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with helionaut.
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with helionaut.
Ranked #8 for helionaut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with helionaut.
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below helionaut at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under helionaut on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with helionaut.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under helionaut on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with helionaut.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under helionaut on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with helionaut.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under helionaut on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with helionaut.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under helionaut on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with helionaut.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under helionaut on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with helionaut.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under helionaut on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with helionaut.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with helionaut.
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 Action and Indie with helionaut.
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.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with helionaut.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with helionaut.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with helionaut.
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.
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!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with helionaut.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with helionaut.
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More from Sokpop Collective
Other recommendable Steam games by Sokpop Collective, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Stacklands
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering and procedural generation with helionaut.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind helionaut. Shares Indie and Simulation with helionaut.
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
Simmiland
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a whimsical mood with helionaut.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind helionaut. Shares Indie and Simulation with helionaut.
Simmiland is a god-like card game. In this game you indirectly influence a small civilization by manipulating their surroundings by playing cards 🃏🃏🃏 Playing cards on different biomes and objects will result in different findings. The way you play the game will define how mankind will develop!
Grunn
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with helionaut.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind helionaut. Shares Indie and Adventure with helionaut.
A gardener gets hired for maintenance work over the weekend. A simple task, but strangely some tools are missing… The owner of the garden isn't around, and their house is off-limits. Perhaps new tools can be found in the mysterious town, or maybe some of the reserved townsfolk have seen them?
pyramida
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with helionaut.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind helionaut. Shares Indie with helionaut.
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .
clickyland
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with helionaut.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind helionaut.
clickyland is a tower defense village builder where clicks are your main resource. Use clicks to harvest resources, fight enemies and manage your village, but use them wisely as you only get 20 clicks every day! Can you reach day 100?
fishy
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with helionaut.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind helionaut. Shares Action and Indie with helionaut.
A game about a hungry fish 🐟 Eat to grow bigger, but watch out for fishes bigger than you! Grow big, strong and explore! Can you escape the pond?
White Lavender
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with helionaut.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind helionaut. Shares Indie and Adventure with helionaut.
A challenging adventure game with RPG-elements. Be a bug, fight other critters with swords and magic, collect powerful items such as pencils and teaspoons, meet cool characters, and up your fashion game on a journey to brew a special tea!
Luckitown
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with helionaut.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind helionaut. Shares Indie and Simulation with helionaut.
Luckitown is a turn-based tower defense where you roll dice to build new structures and cast spells to defend your town.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with helionaut.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with helionaut.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Starpoint Gemini 3
WHY THIS
Shares crafting with helionaut.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with helionaut.
Fight, loot, explore and craft in the living open world of Starpoint Gemini 3. Assemble your trusty ship and boost your RPG skills to face all challenges.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with helionaut.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with helionaut.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Frequently asked about helionaut
- Is helionaut verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — helionaut 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 helionaut cost?
- helionaut is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to helionaut?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside helionaut are No Man's Sky, Remains, Breathedge.
- Who developed helionaut?
- helionaut was developed by Sokpop Collective.
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 helionaut.
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