Games like Aloft
If Aloft is your kind of game, the closest matches are ASKA, Forever Skies and Voidtrain — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cozy yet rewarding exploration, contemplative and cozy. 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 →Aloft is an indie co-op survival game set in a world of floating islands where players glide through the sky, gather scarce resources, and restore corrupted ecosystems. Core activities include island-building, ship-crafting where islands can be converted into airships, and using a sketchbook system to learn and progress. The game features online multiplayer with seamless progression and emphasizes deep customization options for both islands and ships. Players describe the exploration as cozy yet rewarding, with each island presenting a unique hand-crafted puzzle, and reviewers highlight that flying between islands feels exhilarating. Aloft released in 2025 at $24.99 USD and is marked as playable on Steam Deck, holding an 85% positive rating from 1836 Steam reviews.
About Aloft: Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Players who liked Aloft also play
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ASKA
WHY THIS
Top pick for Aloft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Aloft.
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Forever Skies
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Aloft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Aloft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Dinkum
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Aloft.
Ranked #4 for Aloft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
Conan Exiles
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Aloft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Aloft.
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Eden Crafters
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Aloft.
Ranked #6 for Aloft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
StarRupture
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Aloft.
Ranked #7 for Aloft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Smalland: Survive the Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Aloft.
Ranked #8 for Aloft fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Aloft
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Raft
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Aloft.
Reviewers of Aloft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Aloft.
Reviewers of Aloft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Lost Skies
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Aloft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Aloft.
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
DREDGE
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Aloft.
Reviewers of Aloft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Aloft.
DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.
Grounded
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Aloft.
Reviewers of Aloft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Aloft.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Outer Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Aloft.
Reviewers of Aloft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Aloft.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Breath of the Gods
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Aloft cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Knowing the true potential of humanity, the True Gods are fighting to preserve humankind. The War will be settled by two Chosen Ones, both sons of Gods, brothers in blood, enemies in the battlefield.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Aloft.
Reviewers of Aloft cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Aloft.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Aloft at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Aloft on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Aloft.
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 Aloft on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Aloft on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Aloft.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Aloft on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Aloft.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Aloft on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Aloft.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Aloft.
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 Aloft.
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 and Adventure with Aloft.
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 Aloft.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Aloft.
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 Aloft.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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!
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
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Frequently asked about Aloft
- Does Aloft run on Steam Deck?
- Aloft 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 Aloft cost?
- Aloft is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Aloft have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Aloft supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Aloft?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Aloft are ASKA, Forever Skies, Voidtrain.
- Who developed Aloft?
- Aloft was developed by Astrolabe Interactive Inc. and published by Funcom.
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