Games like Plan B: Terraform
If Plan B: Terraform is your kind of game, the closest matches are Captain of Industry, Factory Town and shapez 2 - Factory — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill 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.
Get personalized picks →Plan B: Terraform is a strategy and simulation game from Gaddy Games that tasks players with transforming a lifeless planet into a habitable world. The core loop centers on building and managing logistics networks, factories, and transportation systems across a hexagonal world. Reviewers highlight that three distinct city specializations create interconnected logistics challenges that balance planning against execution. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, contemplative, and relaxing, noting that the planet visibly transforms from barren red terrain to lush blue and green environments, making terraforming progression feel deeply rewarding. Waste recycling reduces resource consumption across the simulation. Currently in early access at $15.99, the game holds a 91% positive rating from 1810 Steam reviews and is playable on Steam Deck.
About Plan B: Terraform: Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Players who liked Plan B: Terraform also play
Steam players who put hours into Plan B: Terraform 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.
Captain of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares terraforming and a relaxing mood with Plan B: Terraform.
Top pick for Plan B: Terraform fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
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.
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Plan B: Terraform.
Second-strongest match for Plan B: Terraform fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
shapez 2 - Factory
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Plan B: Terraform.
Third-strongest match for Plan B: Terraform fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Logistik
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Plan B: Terraform fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Plan B: Terraform.
Build, schedule, and optimize your rail network, with every track reshaping the world. Balance fuel costs, adapt to the terrain, and fulfill demands. Elevate Trains to the ultimate means of transport!
Red Dust Colony
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Plan B: Terraform fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Plan B: Terraform.
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
SimulationSteam ↗Mini Settlers
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Plan B: Terraform.
Ranked #6 for Plan B: Terraform fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
RAILGRADE
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Plan B: Terraform.
Ranked #7 for Plan B: Terraform fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Plan B: Terraform.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
InfraSpace
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Plan B: Terraform fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
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.
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The Planet Crafter
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Plan B: Terraform cross-mention this title as a similar play.
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares logistics networks and a contemplative mood with Plan B: Terraform.
Reviewers of Plan B: Terraform cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares logistics networks and a contemplative mood with Plan B: Terraform.
Reviewers of Plan B: Terraform cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Plan B: Terraform cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
Dyson Sphere Program
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Plan B: Terraform.
Reviewers of Plan B: Terraform cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
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.
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Plan B: Terraform.
Reviewers of Plan B: Terraform cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Plan B: Terraform.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Plan B: Terraform.
Reviewers of Plan B: Terraform cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Plan B: Terraform.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Per Aspera
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Plan B: Terraform.
Reviewers of Plan B: Terraform cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Plan B: Terraform at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Plan B: Terraform on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Plan B: Terraform.
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 ~69% under Plan B: Terraform on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Plan B: Terraform on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Plan B: Terraform on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Plan B: Terraform.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under Plan B: Terraform on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Plan B: Terraform on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Plan B: Terraform on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
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 ~69% under Plan B: Terraform on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 Plan B: Terraform.
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?
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Plan B: Terraform.
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 Plan B: Terraform.
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.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Plan B: Terraform.
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!
Tukoni: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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Frequently asked about Plan B: Terraform
- Does Plan B: Terraform run on Steam Deck?
- Plan B: Terraform 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 Plan B: Terraform cost?
- Plan B: Terraform is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Plan B: Terraform?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Plan B: Terraform are Captain of Industry, Factory Town, shapez 2 - Factory.
- Who developed Plan B: Terraform?
- Plan B: Terraform was developed by Gaddy 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 Plan B: Terraform.
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