Games like Planet's Edge
If Planet's Edge is your kind of game, the closest matches are Epic Astro Story, Halley Mission: 2061 and Kairobotica — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Planet's Edge: Travel between dozens of stars, harvest resources to repair and upgrade your equipment, meet and negotiate with friendly (and hostile) aliens, and do whatever it takes to stay alive and bring Earth back in this groundbreaking sci-fi RPG.
Players who liked Planet's Edge also play
Steam players who put hours into Planet's Edge 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.
Epic Astro Story
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Top pick for Planet's Edge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Planet's Edge.
Battle baddies and foster interplanetary diplomacy in an epic space colony sim!
Halley Mission: 2061
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Second-strongest match for Planet's Edge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Planet's Edge.
Embark on a sci-fi survival adventure on Halley's Comet as a retired astronaut on a top-secret mission. Build, manage limited resources, and survive the desolate space environment to complete your mission.
Kairobotica
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Third-strongest match for Planet's Edge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Planet's Edge.
Vanquish villains and lead the Kairobot Corps to glory in this spacefaring saga!
SPORE™
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Ranked #4 for Planet's Edge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Planet's Edge.
Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.
Lightracer Spark
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Ranked #5 for Planet's Edge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Planet's Edge.
Lightracer Spark is a Sci-Fi Narrative game. You are an amender from a high civilization, descending to various extraterrestrial worlds. Guide living beings to prosperity, or nip a spark in the bud. Accumulate strength through choices and strategies to grasp the rise and fall of all civilizations.
Starpoint Gemini Warlords
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Ranked #6 for Planet's Edge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Planet's Edge.
Strategy from the front lines! Starpoint Gemini Warlords combines 3rd person capital spaceship combat with 4X strategy and RPG gameplay elements. Build mighty war fleets and send them into battle or lead them into combat yourself. Become the Warlord and conquer the Gemini system!
Surviving Mars
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Ranked #7 for Planet's Edge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Planet's Edge.
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.
Startopia
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Ranked #8 for Planet's Edge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Planet's Edge.
A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse. Into this age of darkness comes light. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations to a standard accepted by the individual alien races, attracting them to harness their expertise and research new...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Planet's Edge at current Steam store prices.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~63% under Planet's Edge on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Planet's Edge.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
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Priced ~75% under Planet's Edge on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and RPG with Planet's Edge.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~63% under Planet's Edge on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Planet's Edge.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~75% under Planet's Edge on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Planet's Edge.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~63% under Planet's Edge on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Planet's Edge.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Streets of Rogue
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Priced ~50% under Planet's Edge on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Planet's Edge.
Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
shapez
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Priced ~88% under Planet's Edge on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Planet's Edge.
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!
Tower Wizard
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Priced ~63% under Planet's Edge on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and RPG with Planet's Edge.
Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Planet's Edge.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Planet's Edge.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and RPG with Planet's Edge.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Planet's Edge.
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.
The Lab
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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 Planet's Edge
- Does Planet's Edge run on Steam Deck?
- Planet's Edge 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 Planet's Edge cost?
- Planet's Edge is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Planet's Edge?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Planet's Edge are Epic Astro Story, Halley Mission: 2061, Kairobotica.
- Who developed Planet's Edge?
- Planet's Edge was developed by New World Computing and published by Ziggurat.
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 Planet's Edge.
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