Games like Big Earth
If Big Earth is your kind of game, the closest matches are Redactem, The Pedestrian and Jumphobia: Homeward Bound — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its hyper realistic nature photography, challenging and contemplative. 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 Big Earth: In a post-apocalyptic future where Earth's resources have been consumed, Kyle Seed tries to recover capsules containing special seeds and the energy needed to save humanity's future. Big Earth is a platform game with challenging puzzles.
Players who liked Big Earth also play
Steam players who put hours into Big Earth 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.
Redactem
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Big Earth.
Top pick for Big Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Big Earth.
Rewind time and manipulate gravity in order to solve parkour puzzles in this exciting new 2D platformer.
The Pedestrian
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Big Earth.
Second-strongest match for Big Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Big Earth.
I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?
Jumphobia: Homeward Bound
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Big Earth.
Third-strongest match for Big Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Big Earth.
Jump, skip, hop and leap! Go as far as your little wheel can take you! Play as a little delivery bot from a far-flung future controlled by the monolithic "MARE" corporation, and find your way back home through the perilous deserts, dead forests, and untold wild lands that lie ahead.
Super Puzzled Cat
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Big Earth.
Ranked #4 for Big Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Big Earth.
Help Puzzled Cat use jetpacks, portals, bombs, gum, and more to conquer treacherous platforming stages. Play your own way using save states to explore a world full of challenges and secrets - but can you find the way through? Travel through time and space and reach enlightenment.
PONCHO
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Big Earth.
Ranked #5 for Big Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Big Earth.
A robot, a poncho and a journey of discovery! Make your way through this wonderful world of pixelated parallax platforming to solve the ultimate puzzle: who is Poncho?
Time in Time
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle platforming and a contemplative mood with Big Earth.
Ranked #6 for Big Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Big Earth.
Time in Time is a side scroller puzzle-platformer game where you control everything with timers..
FAR: Lone Sails
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Big Earth.
Ranked #7 for Big Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Big Earth.
Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Big Earth at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Big Earth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Big Earth.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Big Earth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Big Earth.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Big Earth on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Big Earth.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Big Earth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Big Earth.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Big Earth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Big Earth.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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 Big Earth.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Big Earth.
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 Big Earth.
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 Big Earth.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Big Earth.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Big Earth.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Big Earth.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Big Earth.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Pedestrian
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Big Earth.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Big Earth.
I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?
Super Puzzled Cat
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Big Earth.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Big Earth.
Help Puzzled Cat use jetpacks, portals, bombs, gum, and more to conquer treacherous platforming stages. Play your own way using save states to explore a world full of challenges and secrets - but can you find the way through? Travel through time and space and reach enlightenment.
FAR: Lone Sails
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Big Earth.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Big Earth.
Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?
Frequently asked about Big Earth
- Does Big Earth run on Steam Deck?
- Big Earth 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 Big Earth cost?
- Big Earth is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Big Earth?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Big Earth are Redactem, The Pedestrian, Jumphobia: Homeward Bound.
- Who developed Big Earth?
- Big Earth was developed by PlayPlay Studios.
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 Big Earth.
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