Games like Planet Miner
If Planet Miner is your kind of game, the closest matches are Search of Galaxy, Stellar Harvest and Zero-Point — 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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Search of Galaxy
WHY THIS
Top pick for Planet Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Miner.
After the supernova explosion, the Thermian race was destroyed. All knowledge, technologies and data about the past were lost. You must to restore civilization and explore the territories of your home system in search of lost technologies and artifacts.
Stellar Harvest
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Planet Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Planet Miner.
Harvest energy across the solar system. Build generators on alien worlds, prestige for Dark Energy, and construct a Dyson Sphere around the Sun. Ten planets. Infinite power. One way home.
Zero-Point
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Planet Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Planet Miner.
Zero-Point is a 3D space roguelike featuring tactical ship-to-ship combat, crew command and an immersive view of your ship's interior. As Captain of a Star Federation cruiser, lead your crew and ship to victory over the rebellious Galactic Liberation Front!
Galactum Meridian
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Planet Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Planet Miner.
Lead humanity's first deep survey beyond Sol in a research-first space strategy game. Explore star systems, investigate worlds, deploy probes, and turn scientific discoveries into strategic power.
Rocket Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Planet Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Planet Miner.
Travel with your spacecraft throughout the solar system based on realistic Kepler's laws of gravity. Invent your own routes between planets, use gravity, explore space, trade, upgrade your spaceship and enjoy the beautiful scenery!
ORBITAL
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Planet Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Planet Miner.
A space adventure where you solve the mystery of your past, building a thriving civilization across a distant solar system. Fly your rocket as a commander, grow your colonies and build planet upgrades to conquer this unknown space.
Space Travellers
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Planet Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Miner.
Space Travellers is a unique open-world sandbox space simulator set in the year 2343. Travel the galaxy, trade, explore unexplored worlds, fight, build bases and factories, forge alliances and experience new adventures!
QANGA
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Planet Miner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Miner.
QANGA: 750 years after humanity's fall, you must survive in a shattered world where Earth itself demands vengeance. Tear through the fabric of space to face the Voss, awaken the ancient civilisation, and dare to challenge the Sanglines, born from the bowels of a world that condemned you.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Planet Miner at current Steam store prices.
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Planet Miner on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Miner.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Planet Miner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planet Miner.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Planet Miner on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Miner.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Planet Miner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planet Miner.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Shotgun Legend
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Planet Miner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planet Miner.
Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Planet Miner.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Planet Miner.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Planet Miner.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Miner.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Miner.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Planet Miner.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Planet Miner.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Miner.
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!
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Frequently asked about Planet Miner
- How much does Planet Miner cost?
- Planet Miner is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Planet Miner?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Planet Miner are Search of Galaxy, Stellar Harvest, Zero-Point.
- Who developed Planet Miner?
- Planet Miner was developed by Cherniukh Andrii, HornetStudio and published by Cherniukh Andrii.
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 Miner.
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