Games like Vacant Planet
If Vacant Planet is your kind of game, the closest matches are Xheres, The Lifeline and Nocturne Island Obscuria — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Vacant Planet: You awaken on an unknown planet that has been devastated by a virus of some kind. Scavenge gear and get ready for a battle of survival. Do anything you can to live and find out the secret behind the tragedy of your new home. and find out what's wrong with it.
Players who liked Vacant Planet also play
Steam players who put hours into Vacant Planet 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.
Xheres
WHY THIS
Top pick for Vacant Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vacant Planet.
Either FPS or TPS, choose your play style and survive the apocalypse on your own or with your friends. But one must know for sure it ain't gonna be easy, there are hordes waiting for you. Not even considering tough ones... Nevertheless it's gonna be fun.
The Lifeline
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Vacant Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vacant Planet.
To escape this terrifying hospital, you must leave your fears behind. Can you do it? Explore, face zombies, use weapons, avoid traps, and react fast to survive.
Nocturne Island Obscuria
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Vacant Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vacant Planet.
Obscuria 2 is a horror and adventure experience created in Unreal Engine 5, where you will investigate an abandoned island with many secrets, mysteries and scares.
V696
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Vacant Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Vacant Planet.
V696 is a first-person horror-thriller game. It contains a cult subject of veiled beings. Even if everything seems clear at first glance, it has a gripping story that will throw you a curve.
Dawn of Horror
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Vacant Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vacant Planet.
Dawn of Horror is a high-intensity Action Horror FPS set in the decaying urban sprawl of Cygnus City. Following the collapse of civilization into a digital Dark Age, step into the role of Kage—a survivor seeking vengeance against hordes of Cyber-Zombies and bio-mechanical monstrosities.
Terror Brain: Night Out
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Vacant Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vacant Planet.
Terror Brain: Night Out is a Single-Player First-Person Action-Adventure Psychological Horror PC Game where you take on the role of university student Sarah Mitchell while she is trying to understand what happened to her after everything went dark during a night out at the local bar.
Deborg Desolation Pre-Born
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Vacant Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Vacant Planet.
Deborg Desolation is a first-person indie game intended for the survival of mankind. Train to be a soldier capable of containing any injurious entity to achieve the survival of your own race, seek to plan strategies that allow your advancement without stopping.
Nulla Via
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Vacant Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vacant Planet.
NULLA VIA is a WW2 psychological horror set in a preserved, abandoned war town. Explore silent ruins, bunkers, and mass graves where life was erased. Shadows cannot be killed by bullets alone. Use your camera, your weapons, and your sanity to survive. This town was never rebuilt for a reason.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Vacant Planet at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Vacant Planet on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Vacant Planet.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Vacant Planet on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vacant Planet.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Vacant Planet on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Vacant Planet.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Vacant Planet on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vacant Planet.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Vacant Planet on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Vacant Planet.
"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!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Vacant Planet on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Vacant Planet.
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!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Vacant Planet on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vacant Planet.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vacant Planet.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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 Vacant Planet.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Vacant Planet.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vacant Planet.
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 Action and Indie with Vacant Planet.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Vacant Planet.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vacant Planet.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Vacant Planet.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Frequently asked about Vacant Planet
- How much does Vacant Planet cost?
- Vacant Planet is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Vacant Planet?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vacant Planet are Xheres, The Lifeline, Nocturne Island Obscuria.
- Who developed Vacant Planet?
- Vacant Planet was developed by Divine Light 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 Vacant Planet.
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