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Games like Deep Space Outpost

If Deep Space Outpost is your kind of game, the closest matches are Trappist, Timberborn and A Planet of Mine Legacy — 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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About Deep Space Outpost: Deep Space Outpost is a space station building & survival game, involving resource and base management. Build your space station tile by tile, mine asteroids, refine materials and keep your station operational.

2022StrategyIndieSimulationEarly Access15.99 USDWindows · Linuxby Niris Games
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Steam players who put hours into Deep Space Outpost 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. Trappist

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Deep Space Outpost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Outpost.

    Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Timberborn

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Deep Space Outpost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Outpost.

    Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. A Planet of Mine Legacy

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Deep Space Outpost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Outpost.

    A Planet of Mine is a mini procedural 4X. Starting from a single and unique planet, survive, gather and combine resources, develop your technologies and start the conquest of space.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation2.79 USDSteam ↗
  4. Void Destroyer 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Deep Space Outpost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Outpost.

    Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Noble Fates

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Deep Space Outpost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Outpost.

    Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Pioneers of Pagonia

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Deep Space Outpost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Deep Space Outpost.

    Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

    2025StrategySimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Captain of Industry

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Deep Space Outpost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Outpost.

    Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Last Starship

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Deep Space Outpost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Outpost.

    The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Deep Space Outpost at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Deep Space Outpost on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Space Outpost.

    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. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Deep Space Outpost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deep Space Outpost.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~56% under Deep Space Outpost on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Deep Space Outpost.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Deep Space Outpost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deep Space Outpost.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Deep Space Outpost on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Deep Space Outpost.

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

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~61% under Deep Space Outpost on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Outpost.

    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 ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Deep Space Outpost on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Outpost.

    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 ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Deep Space Outpost on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Outpost.

    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 ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Outpost.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. The Last Sovereign

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Outpost.

    Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Outpost.

    A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

    2020StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  4. Totally Accurate Battlegrounds

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deep Space Outpost.

    Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Crusader Kings II

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Deep Space Outpost.

    Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.

    2012StrategySimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. AdVenture Capitalist

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deep Space Outpost.

    Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!

    2015IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Supermarket Together

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Space Outpost.

    The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!

    2024IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Fallout Shelter

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Deep Space Outpost.

    Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.

    2017SimulationRPGFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Deep Space Outpost

How much does Deep Space Outpost cost?
Deep Space Outpost is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Deep Space Outpost?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deep Space Outpost are Trappist, Timberborn, A Planet of Mine Legacy.
Who developed Deep Space Outpost?
Deep Space Outpost was developed by Niris Games.

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 Deep Space Outpost.

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