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Games like Astro Traveler

If Astro Traveler is your kind of game, the closest matches are Celestial Routes, Galactic Command Echo Squad SE and Starship EVO — 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 Astro Traveler: A retro style space sim where you mine, trade, bounty hunt, pillage, and explore. In this game you choose you own path as you navigate the galaxy while balancing faction alligence and legality of your actions.

2023ActionIndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDWindows · macOS · Linuxby Quatro Designs
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Players who liked Astro Traveler also play

Steam players who put hours into Astro Traveler 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. Celestial Routes

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Astro Traveler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Traveler.

    A sci-fi space flight, exploration, and survival game in third person. Survival is important in this universe, both physically and economically. Exploring different planets, spacestations, and debris areas, and surface facilities is the key part for scavenging and collecting materials and tools.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Galactic Command Echo Squad SE

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Astro Traveler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Traveler.

    Galactic Command Echo Squad SE is a high-end and very challenging space/planetary combat game. It offers a thrilling campaign, instant action combat sessions as well as a sandbox mode allowing you to explore the game's universe while battling hostile Insurgent forces among others.

    2014ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Starship EVO

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Astro Traveler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Traveler.

    Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Elite Dangerous

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Astro Traveler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Astro Traveler.

    Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.

    2015ActionStrategyAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Astro Traveler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Traveler.

    Out of cash, out of luck, out on the fringe. Juno Markev has a killer to tail, a debt to pay, and more trouble headed her way. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw takes place in a greasy, blue-collar world of outlaws, truckers, cops and thieves.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Jitter

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Astro Traveler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Traveler.

    A sci-fi exploration & survival game where you take on the role of a spaceship’s AI. Explore, fight, and survive across a mining colony in the Main Asteroid Belt. Rebuild your ship. Rescue your crew. Reveal the truth behind your mission.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Starpoint Gemini 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Astro Traveler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Astro Traveler.

    Captain your own space ship and roam the galaxy in 3D in this tactical space simulator with tons of RPG depth ! Space has never looked so inviting - but images can betray...It has been two years since the end of the second Gemini war, the situation in the wartorn system is further from resolution than ever.

    2014ActionSimulationRPG34.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Rebel Galaxy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Astro Traveler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Traveler.

    Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.

    2015ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Astro Traveler on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Traveler.

    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. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Astro Traveler on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astro Traveler.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Astro Traveler on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astro Traveler.

    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 ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Astro Traveler on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Astro Traveler.

    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 ↗
  5. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Astro Traveler on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Astro Traveler.

    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.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Astro Traveler on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Astro Traveler.

    Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Astro Traveler on Steam right now. Shares Action with Astro Traveler.

    You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.

    2009Action2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Astro Traveler on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Astro Traveler.

    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 ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Astro Traveler.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astro Traveler.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Traveler.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Astro Traveler.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Astro Traveler.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Traveler.

    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 ↗
  7. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Traveler.

    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 ↗
  8. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Traveler.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Astro Traveler

How much does Astro Traveler cost?
Astro Traveler is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Astro Traveler?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Astro Traveler are Celestial Routes, Galactic Command Echo Squad SE, Starship EVO.
Who developed Astro Traveler?
Astro Traveler was developed by Quatro Designs.

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 Astro Traveler.

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