Games like Heliopedia
If Heliopedia is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tuin, CritterGarden and FFF — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, contemplative and relaxing. 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 Heliopedia: A fictional universe sandbox/exploration game. 🪐☄️✨ Shape your own solar system by terraforming planets. Find new species and make beautiful ecosystems . . . or breed destruction with volcanos, lightning storms and wildfires!
Players who liked Heliopedia also play
Steam players who put hours into Heliopedia 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.
Tuin
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Heliopedia.
Top pick for Heliopedia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
Plant seeds, pull weeds and sell vegetables - all while doing something else!
CritterGarden
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Heliopedia.
Second-strongest match for Heliopedia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
You are an astrobiologist stranded on a lifeless planet. Breathe new life into this mysterious world by gathering plants, animals, and research upgrades to help it grow back to its full potential. Collect, breed, and evolve over 90 cute and quirky Critters to help you on your journey back home!
FFF
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Heliopedia.
Third-strongest match for Heliopedia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Heliopedia.
Friends Friends Friends or FFF for short is a funny game about friendship, family, and fun. You are a newly elected space emperor, and your goal is to make everyone your friend. Even if they don't want to be. You will travel through the vast expanse of space, spreading your kindness to anyone.
Strata
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Heliopedia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
Strata is a scientifically inspired astro-planetary sandbox where you influence the formation and evolution of entire worlds — your worlds. Discover, gather, and build on the surfaces of diverse planets, explore them in depth, and manage your systems beyond the orbital levels.
Starvector
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Heliopedia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Heliopedia.
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
Infinite Space: Mining
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Heliopedia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
Build and automate your own industrial space empire. Mine asteroids, manage logistics, expand production lines with drones and conveyors, explore new sectors through wormholes, and grow your mining operation across the galaxy.
Loafing Town
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a chill mood with Heliopedia.
Ranked #7 for Heliopedia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
A relaxing and humorous idle god simulator that stays at the bottom of your screen or on a second monitor while you do other things. With physics-based dragging interactions, it feels just like playing with desk toys.
Spaceflight Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Heliopedia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Heliopedia at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Heliopedia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heliopedia.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Heliopedia on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Heliopedia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heliopedia.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Heliopedia on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Heliopedia.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Heliopedia on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Heliopedia on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Heliopedia on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Heliopedia.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Heliopedia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heliopedia.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heliopedia.
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 with Heliopedia.
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 Heliopedia.
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 Heliopedia.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heliopedia.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heliopedia.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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More from Sokpop Collective
Other recommendable Steam games by Sokpop Collective, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Stacklands
WHY THIS
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Heliopedia. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
Simmiland
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Heliopedia.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Heliopedia. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
Simmiland is a god-like card game. In this game you indirectly influence a small civilization by manipulating their surroundings by playing cards 🃏🃏🃏 Playing cards on different biomes and objects will result in different findings. The way you play the game will define how mankind will develop!
Grunn
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Heliopedia.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Heliopedia. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
A gardener gets hired for maintenance work over the weekend. A simple task, but strangely some tools are missing… The owner of the garden isn't around, and their house is off-limits. Perhaps new tools can be found in the mysterious town, or maybe some of the reserved townsfolk have seen them?
pyramida
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a chill mood with Heliopedia.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Heliopedia. Shares Indie with Heliopedia.
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .
clickyland
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Heliopedia.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Heliopedia.
clickyland is a tower defense village builder where clicks are your main resource. Use clicks to harvest resources, fight enemies and manage your village, but use them wisely as you only get 20 clicks every day! Can you reach day 100?
fishy
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Heliopedia.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Heliopedia. Shares Indie with Heliopedia.
A game about a hungry fish 🐟 Eat to grow bigger, but watch out for fishes bigger than you! Grow big, strong and explore! Can you escape the pond?
White Lavender
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Heliopedia.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Heliopedia. Shares Indie with Heliopedia.
A challenging adventure game with RPG-elements. Be a bug, fight other critters with swords and magic, collect powerful items such as pencils and teaspoons, meet cool characters, and up your fashion game on a journey to brew a special tea!
Luckitown
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Heliopedia.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Heliopedia. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliopedia.
Luckitown is a turn-based tower defense where you roll dice to build new structures and cast spells to defend your town.
Frequently asked about Heliopedia
- Does Heliopedia run on Steam Deck?
- Heliopedia 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 Heliopedia cost?
- Heliopedia is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Heliopedia?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heliopedia are Tuin, CritterGarden, FFF.
- Who developed Heliopedia?
- Heliopedia was developed by Sokpop Collective.
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