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Games like Escape The Living Nebula

If Escape The Living Nebula is your kind of game, the closest matches are FTL: Faster Than Light, Flotilla and Crowntakers — 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 Escape The Living Nebula: Turn-based spaceship battles in a tense fight for survival

2022ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDWindowsby Plimmerton Games
Escape The Living Nebula — Steam game cover

Players who liked Escape The Living Nebula also play

Steam players who put hours into Escape The Living Nebula 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. FTL: Faster Than Light

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Escape The Living Nebula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

    2012StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Flotilla

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Escape The Living Nebula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    Lead your orbital battleships to victory in Flotilla! Fight, trade, and explore new planets in your journey through the galaxy. Featuring tactically rich 3D combat, flank and surprise the enemy from any direction. When the dust settles, generate another randomized universe for a brand new adventure!

    2010StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Crowntakers

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Escape The Living Nebula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Quasimorph

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Escape The Living Nebula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based cyberpunk RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Into the Breach

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Escape The Living Nebula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Cobalt Core

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Escape The Living Nebula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!

    2023StrategyIndie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Invisible, Inc.

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Escape The Living Nebula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Escape The Living Nebula.

    Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.

    2015ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Last Spell

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Escape The Living Nebula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Escape The Living Nebula.

    Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Escape The Living Nebula at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Escape The Living Nebula on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Escape The Living Nebula on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    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.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Escape The Living Nebula on Steam right now. Shares Action with Escape The Living Nebula.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Escape The Living Nebula on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Escape The Living Nebula on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Escape The Living Nebula on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Bejeweled® 3

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Escape The Living Nebula on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Escape The Living Nebula.

    The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.

    2010StrategyCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Bit Blaster XL

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Escape The Living Nebula on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!

    2016ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    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 ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Quasimorph

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based cyberpunk RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Into the Breach

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cobalt Core

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!

    2023StrategyIndie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Last Spell

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Escape The Living Nebula.

    Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Escape The Living Nebula

How much does Escape The Living Nebula cost?
Escape The Living Nebula is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Escape The Living Nebula?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Escape The Living Nebula are FTL: Faster Than Light, Flotilla, Crowntakers.
Who developed Escape The Living Nebula?
Escape The Living Nebula was developed by Plimmerton 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 Escape The Living Nebula.

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