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Games like Astario

If Astario is your kind of game, the closest matches are MORS, Infinite Space: Mining and Industronaut — 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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About Astario: Astario is a universe in which you can build functional ships and orbital stations with automated factories. Collect materials, craft new blocks, and expand into the universe. Nothing is ever truly static, ships, stations, asteroids, planets, everything follows the laws of orbital motion.

IndieAdventureSimulationEarly AccessWindowsby Ondřej Hroch
Astario — Steam game cover

Players who liked Astario also play

Steam players who put hours into Astario 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.

  1. MORS

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Astario fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astario.

    Build an automated factory on a true-scale Mars streamed from real NASA terrain. Mine, smelt and belt resources, run trains between outposts, master chemistry, and grow from a lone lander into a planet-spanning industry while the real Martian weather does its worst.

    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Infinite Space: Mining

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Astario fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astario.

    Build and automate your own industrial space empire. Mine asteroids, manage logistics, expand production lines with drones and conveyors, explore new sectors through wormholes, and grow your mining operation across the galaxy.

    ActionIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Industronaut

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Astario fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astario.

    A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  4. Starlathe

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Astario fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astario.

    Command your ship and fleet in a galaxy that truly lives: 150 sectors where six factions mine, haul, trade, build and wage war whether you're there or not. Trade it, rob it, defend it — or forge your own fleet and carve out your place in it.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  5. Untethered

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Astario fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Astario.

    Untethered is a space survival-sandbox set in our own cosmic backyard. Explore zero-gravity environments, build and operate realistic space stations, and fight to stay alive in the unforgiving realm of deep space.

    2027AdventureSimulationEarly AccessSteam ↗
  6. TerraTech Worlds

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Astario fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astario.

    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

    2024ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. SpaceCraft

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Astario fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astario.

    The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation26.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Interstellar Rift

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Astario fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astario.

    Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!

    2020ActionIndieSimulation3.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Astario.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. 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 Astario.

    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.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 93, Kuindzhi

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astario.

    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.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. No Results Found

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astario.

    Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  6. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astario.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  7. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astario.

    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!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Aircar

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Astario.

    A simple immersive flying game built for VR. Pilot an aircar through a futuristic cityscape.

    2019IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Astario

What games are most similar to Astario?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Astario are MORS, Infinite Space: Mining, Industronaut.
Who developed Astario?
Astario was developed by Ondřej Hroch.

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 Astario.

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