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Games like The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition

If The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Outer Worlds, Within the Cosmos and Humanity Lost — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its builds impact dialogue, choices feel consequential and companions have unique personalities. 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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The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition is a first-person action RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Virtuos Games, released in 2023. Players explore a satirical corporate dystopia, making dialogue choices and shaping the narrative through branching decisions. Build variety is central to the experience, with different approaches unlocking new conversation options. The game removes its predecessor's level cap and features companion characters who comment on player actions and the world. Reviewers highlight that choices feel consequential, companions have distinct personalities, and the satirical tone stands out from other RPGs. Players describe the overall mood as comedic despite the dark setting. The game costs $59.99 and runs at Playable level on Steam Deck. The Steam version holds a 76% positive rating from over 1,900 reviews.

About The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition: The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition is the ultimate way to play the award-winning RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. Including the base game and all DLC, this remastered masterpiece is the absolute best version of The Outer Worlds.

2023ActionAdventureRPG59.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Obsidian Entertainment, Virtuos Games
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  1. The Outer Worlds

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.

    2020RPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Within the Cosmos

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Within the Cosmos is a sci-fi RPG. After awakening in a secluded star system, you soon discover a fractured human society grappling with an emerging android threat. Explore planets, uncover mysteries, and navigate differing philosophies. Your choices will shape how the story unfolds.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.89 USDSteam ↗
  3. Humanity Lost

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Will you save humanity? You are on a mission to find a new planet for humans to inhabit. In this story driven FPS space opera you will explore open world planets, find weapons, upgrade your character, and befriend alien species.

    2021ActionAdventureRPG3.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Voidling Bound

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Hatch, evolve, and upgrade powerful space creatures in this action-packed sci-fi 3rd person shooter that reinvents the monster taming genre!

    2026ActionAdventureRPG22.49 USDSteam ↗
  5. Deep Space

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    You are entrusted with the role of one of the elite captains, put on a high-tech mech suit suitable for travel into space and go on an exciting journey.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    The Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition includes single-player base content and over 40 DLC from the highly acclaimed Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3 games, including promo weapons, armors, and packs — remastered and optimized for 4K Ultra HD.

    2021ActionRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Starfield

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.

    2023RPG49.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Ranked #8 for The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Embark on an epic adventure full of whimsy, wonder, and high-powered weaponry! Roll your own multiclass hero then shoot, loot, slash, and cast on a quest to stop the Dragon Lord.

    2022ActionAdventureRPG11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Reviewers of The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Mass Effect (2007)

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.

    2008ActionRPG5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Starfield

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.

    2023RPG49.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Pillars of Eternity

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.

    2015RPG39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    A galaxy-spanning adventure awaits in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, a 3rd person action-adventure title from Respawn. An abandoned Padawan must complete his training, develop new powerful Force abilities, and master the art of the lightsaber - all while staying one step ahead of the Empire.

    2019ActionAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    It is four thousand years before the Galactic Empire and hundreds of Jedi Knights have fallen in battle against the ruthless Sith. You are the last hope of the Jedi Order. Can you master the awesome power of the Force on your quest to save the Republic? Or will you fall to the lure of the dark side?

    2009AdventureRPG2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. No Man's Sky

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

    2016ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Dishonored

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Reviewers of The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.

    2012ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~83% under The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Stardew Valley

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

    2016IndieSimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Phasmophobia

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.

    2020ActionIndieEarly Access19.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~83% under The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~83% under The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Schedule I

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Subnautica

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

    2018IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Hollow Knight

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

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 The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    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. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    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 ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    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 ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

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

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Obsidian Entertainment

Other recommendable Steam games by Obsidian Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition. Shares Action and RPG with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Grounded

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

    2022ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. South Park™: The Stick of Truth™

    WHY THIS

    Shares a comedic mood with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    From the perilous battlefields of the fourth-grade playground, a young hero will rise, destined to be South Park’s savior. From the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, comes an epic quest to become… cool. Introducing South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.For a thousand years, the battle has been waged.

    2014ActionAdventureRPG29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Outer Worlds

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition. Shares RPG with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.

    2020RPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition. Shares RPG with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    5 years after the events of the award winning original, the Sith are on the verge of crushing the Old Republic. As a lone Jedi, will you follow the light side or succumb to the dark?

    2012RPG2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Grounded 2

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

    2025ActionAdventureEarly Access29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Pillars of Eternity

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition. Shares RPG with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.

    2015RPG39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition. Shares RPG with The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition.

    Patch 5.0 - Turn-based mode and The Ultimate challenge out now! Pursue a rogue god over land and sea in the sequel to the multi-award-winning RPG Pillars of Eternity. Captain your ship on a dangerous voyage of discovery across the vast unexplored archipelago region of the Deadfire.

    2018RPG39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition

Does The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition run on Steam Deck?
The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition 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 The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition cost?
The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition is listed on Steam at 59.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition are The Outer Worlds, Within the Cosmos, Humanity Lost.
Who developed The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition?
The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition was developed by Obsidian Entertainment, Virtuos Games and published by Private Division, Xbox Game Studios.

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