Games like Planetary Control!
If Planetary Control! is your kind of game, the closest matches are Canvas - The Board Game, War Of Flip and Star Squadrons: Galactic Trading Card Game — 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.
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Canvas - The Board Game
WHY THIS
Top pick for Planetary Control! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetary Control!.
Create stunning paintings, layer cards strategically, and score ribbons in Canvas - a digital board game where art meets strategy. Choose and combine Art Cards to create beautiful paintings and enjoy a mix of artistic expression and tactical gameplay.
War Of Flip
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Planetary Control! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Planetary Control!.
It's a two-player card chess game. Play against your friend with chesses that have the ability to flip. At the right moment, flip the chess to release powerful skills, or hide and wait for the right opportunity to strike. In addition, build a deck and explore various possibilities!
Star Squadrons: Galactic Trading Card Game
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Planetary Control! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetary Control!.
Star Squadrons is a fast-paced, tactical sci-fi card game WITHOUT MANA, where you deploy cards face down, interact nonstop, and win through clever location control. Secure your Founder status ahead of the Kickstarter in late 2026 / early 2027! Play the browser-based Early Alpha now!
Xeno Strike
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Ranked #4 for Planetary Control! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetary Control!.
Build your collection, construct decks, and duel against other players in a sci-fi card battler.
Vestiges: Fallen Tribes
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Ranked #5 for Planetary Control! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetary Control!.
Dive into a gripping strategy adventure set in a dystopian world. Lead your tribe to victory, deploy animated units, and conquer tactical challenges in this immersive (PC & PCVR) turn by turn board game.
Grid Tactics: Duel
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Planetary Control! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetary Control!.
Grid Tactics: Duel is a competitive card game built on an 8×8 grid. Every move is about positioning, timing, and resource trade-offs. With limited resources, choose when and where to play—set up or apply pressure. Each placement reshapes the board. Win through deckbuilding and precise execution.
Gambetto
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Ranked #7 for Planetary Control! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Planetary Control!.
Gambetto is a fast-paced PvP card game that fuses chess tactics with deep deck-building. Command pieces on a 5×5 board, create clever combos, and outsmart opponents. Play competitively or craft custom game modes for endless strategic variety.
Tanto Cuore
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Ranked #8 for Planetary Control! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetary Control!.
Tanto Cuore is a Japanese deck-building card game where you employ maids to serve you!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Planetary Control! at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Planetary Control! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planetary Control!.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Planetary Control! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planetary Control!.
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 ~70% under Planetary Control! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planetary Control!.
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 ~80% under Planetary Control! on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Planetary Control!.
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 ~60% under Planetary Control! on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Planetary Control!.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Planetary Control! on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Planetary Control!.
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 ~80% under Planetary Control! on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetary Control!.
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 ~60% under Planetary Control! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planetary Control!.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Planetary Control!.
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 Indie with Planetary Control!.
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 Casual with Planetary Control!.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Planetary Control!.
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 Planetary Control!.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Planetary Control!.
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.
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More from Kerberos Productions
Other recommendable Steam games by Kerberos Productions, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Sword of the Stars: The Pit
WHY THIS
Another title from Kerberos Productions, the studio behind Planetary Control!. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetary Control!.
A fun, fast, light-hearted, turn-based RPG, where the tradition of old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe!
Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from Kerberos Productions, the studio behind Planetary Control!. Shares Strategy with Planetary Control!.
The Enhanced Edition contains Sword of the Stars II: The Lords of Winter and the first expansion, the End of Flesh. The new expansion introduces the new playable race, the Loa. All previous DLCs containing new avatars, new combat music, alternate voices, skins, and new badges for the warships are also included.
The Pit: Infinity
WHY THIS
Another title from Kerberos Productions, the studio behind Planetary Control!. Shares Indie with Planetary Control!.
Enter a legendary alien facility dug deep into the Feldspar Mountains... a massive Pit, built by the ancient Suul'ka. Enter The Pit again for the first time, in this unique Roguelike / FPS hybrid!
Hoards of Glory
WHY THIS
Another title from Kerberos Productions, the studio behind Planetary Control!. Shares Strategy and Casual with Planetary Control!.
Hoards of Glory is a dice placement game for 1-4 players. Players take on the role of a Viking captain forced to follow through on his grand boasts! Developed as an answer for how to playtest a tabletop during a pandemic, Hoards of Glory grew into a video game in its own right!
Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Kerberos Productions, the studio behind Planetary Control!. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetary Control!.
The Pit2 returns to the turn-based Roguelike roots of the indie classic and takes you to another alien facility filled with broken machines, warped creatures, and new surprises!
Frequently asked about Planetary Control!
- How much does Planetary Control! cost?
- Planetary Control! is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Planetary Control! have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Planetary Control! supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Planetary Control!?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Planetary Control! are Canvas - The Board Game, War Of Flip, Star Squadrons: Galactic Trading Card Game.
- Who developed Planetary Control!?
- Planetary Control! was developed by Kerberos Productions.
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