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Games like orbit.industries

If orbit.industries is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rionag: Survey Fleet, Solar Baron and Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, 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.

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About orbit.industries: 🚀 Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. 🛰️ Explore, Build and Prosper!

2022StrategySimulation19.99 USDWindows · Linuxby LAB132
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Players who liked orbit.industries also play

Steam players who put hours into orbit.industries 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. Rionag: Survey Fleet

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for orbit.industries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with orbit.industries.

    Rionag: Survey Fleet is a top-down starship builder and logistics game where it's your job to balance the needs of the crews with cutting-edge equipment on board. Unlock tech that adds new capabilities for your ships to go through hazardous environments, enabling you to explore new worlds.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation20.00 USDSteam ↗
  2. Solar Baron

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for orbit.industries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with orbit.industries.

    As head of an interplanetary corporation, your goal is to extract resources from across the solar system and bring them home faster and cheaper than your competitors. Construct trade depots and colonies. Build rockets and spaceports. Master realistic orbital mechanics and maximize profits.

    StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  3. Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with orbit.industries.

    Third-strongest match for orbit.industries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with orbit.industries.

    Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation4.79 USDSteam ↗
  4. Dyson Sphere Program

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with orbit.industries.

    Ranked #4 for orbit.industries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with orbit.industries.

    Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. InfraSpace

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with orbit.industries.

    Ranked #5 for orbit.industries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with orbit.industries.

    Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Anno 2205™

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with orbit.industries.

    Ranked #6 for orbit.industries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with orbit.industries.

    In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

    2015StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Final Upgrade

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with orbit.industries.

    Ranked #7 for orbit.industries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with orbit.industries.

    Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Final Earth 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with orbit.industries.

    Ranked #8 for orbit.industries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with orbit.industries.

    The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below orbit.industries at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under orbit.industries on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with orbit.industries.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under orbit.industries on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with orbit.industries.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under orbit.industries on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with orbit.industries.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Kerbal Space Program

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with orbit.industries.

    Priced ~50% under orbit.industries on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with orbit.industries.

    In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

    2015IndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under orbit.industries on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with orbit.industries.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under orbit.industries on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with orbit.industries.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under orbit.industries on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with orbit.industries.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under orbit.industries on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with orbit.industries.

    Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with orbit.industries.

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with orbit.industries.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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 ↗
  4. OnlyCans: Thirst Date

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with orbit.industries.

    Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!

    2021IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. 93, Kuindzhi

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  6. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with orbit.industries.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with orbit.industries.

    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 ↗
  8. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with orbit.industries.

    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 ↗

More from LAB132

Other recommendable Steam games by LAB132, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Schacht

    WHY THIS

    Another title from LAB132, the studio behind orbit.industries.

    Schacht is a competitive 3D platformer racing game. Run on walls, swing, slide and dash to beat the levels as fast as possible. Compare your highscores with players from all around the world or challenge your friends in the local splitscreen multiplayer!

    2017ActionIndieCasualSteam ↗
  2. Astral Tracks

    WHY THIS

    Another title from LAB132, the studio behind orbit.industries.

    Astral Tracks is a precise and competitive 3D platforming speedrunner where you run, dash, slide, swing and wall run your way to victory. Compete against friends locally or online and refine your runs to top the leaderboards for each procedurally generated track!

    2024ActionIndieRacing9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Chessfall

    WHY THIS

    Another title from LAB132, the studio behind orbit.industries. Shares Strategy with orbit.industries.

    A roguelite adventure in the chess kingdom – roam the land as a shapeshifter, collect items & loot, trade with merchants, defeat powerful bosses and find the white queen to break the curse of the black wizard!

    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗

Frequently asked about orbit.industries

How much does orbit.industries cost?
orbit.industries is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to orbit.industries?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside orbit.industries are Rionag: Survey Fleet, Solar Baron, Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder.
Who developed orbit.industries?
orbit.industries was developed by LAB132 and published by Klabater.

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 orbit.industries.

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