Games like Signals
If Signals is your kind of game, the closest matches are Creo God Simulator, Dark Moon and Northgard: Definitive Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, contemplative and hypnotic. 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 Signals: Signals is a casual planet hopper strategy game. Explore systems, harvest resources and repair alien devices. You’ll need to strategically work with the market to maximize your income while covering the cost of your operation in order to follow strange signals and discover what waits at the source.
Players who liked Signals also play
Steam players who put hours into Signals 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.
Creo God Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Signals.
Top pick for Signals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Signals.
Creo God Simulator is a game of city building, resource management, survival, and a ton of villager smiting. As the divinely chosen Creostrider, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god.
Dark Moon
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Signals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Signals.
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Northgard: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Signals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Signals.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Mashinky
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Signals.
Ranked #4 for Signals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Signals.
Mashinky is a transport strategy game about trains. The goal is to create your own transport empire on a procedurally generated map. It’s a unique blend of realistic graphics combined with an isometric construction mode and board game-like rules.
Calyx
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Signals.
Ranked #5 for Signals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Signals.
A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?
Going Medieval
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Signals.
Ranked #6 for Signals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Signals.
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Fabledom
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a chill mood with Signals.
Ranked #7 for Signals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Signals.
Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!
Nebuchadnezzar
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Signals.
Ranked #8 for Signals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Signals.
Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Signals at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Signals on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Signals.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Signals on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Signals.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Signals on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Signals.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Signals on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Signals.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Signals on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Signals.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Signals on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Signals.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Signals on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Signals.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Signals on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Signals.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Signals.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Signals.
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 Signals.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Signals.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Signals.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Signals.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Signals.
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.
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Frequently asked about Signals
- How much does Signals cost?
- Signals is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Signals?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Signals are Creo God Simulator, Dark Moon, Northgard: Definitive Edition.
- Who developed Signals?
- Signals was developed by MKDB Studio.
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