Games like Outer Frontier
If Outer Frontier is your kind of game, the closest matches are Town Keeper, Shelter Manager and Surviving Mars: Relaunched — 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 Outer Frontier: Grow crops and fight giant birds, mine precious materials while avoiding sink holes. Keep your societies needs met before unrest breaks out. And finally end the war by tracking down the enemy leader.
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Steam players who put hours into Outer Frontier 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.
Town Keeper
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Top pick for Outer Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Outer Frontier.
Build a rabbit town while defending it from the fluffy empire's invasions.
Shelter Manager
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Second-strongest match for Outer Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Outer Frontier.
We live in a troubled world. Viruses, military conflicts - you never know what danger the world will face tomorrow. It's time to get ready now! Lead a bunker network and start developing society after a global disaster.
Surviving Mars: Relaunched
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Third-strongest match for Outer Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Outer Frontier.
The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.
Space Colony: Steam Edition
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Ranked #4 for Outer Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Outer Frontier.
Space Colony: Steam Edition is a remaster of the real-time base builder and strategy game from Firefly Studios, creators of the Stronghold series. In Space Colony you colonize to survive, designing intergalactic bases that keep your crew productive, happy and defended against hostile alien threats.
Flooded
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Ranked #5 for Outer Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Outer Frontier.
Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.
United Penguin Kingdom
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Ranked #6 for Outer Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Outer Frontier.
A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.
Autonauts vs Piratebots
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Ranked #7 for Outer Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Outer Frontier.
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
Imagine Earth
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Ranked #8 for Outer Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Outer Frontier.
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Outer Frontier at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~75% under Outer Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Outer Frontier.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~50% under Outer Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Outer Frontier.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~63% under Outer Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Outer Frontier.
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
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Priced ~75% under Outer Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Outer Frontier.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~50% under Outer Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Outer Frontier.
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.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~75% under Outer Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Outer Frontier.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~75% under Outer Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Outer Frontier.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~50% under Outer Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Outer Frontier.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Outer Frontier.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Outer Frontier.
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.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Outer Frontier.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Outer Frontier.
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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Outer Frontier.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Outer Frontier.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Outer Frontier.
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.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Outer Frontier.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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Frequently asked about Outer Frontier
- How much does Outer Frontier cost?
- Outer Frontier is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Outer Frontier?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Outer Frontier are Town Keeper, Shelter Manager, Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
- Who developed Outer Frontier?
- Outer Frontier was developed by Roley Games.
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