Games like Prospector
If Prospector is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nightwater, Blossom: The Seed of Life and Starvector — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its exploration reveals secrets, faction contracts add direction and phased progression feels natural. 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 Prospector: Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Players who liked Prospector also play
Steam players who put hours into Prospector 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.
Nightwater
WHY THIS
Top pick for Prospector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
Blossom: The Seed of Life
WHY THIS
Shares terraforming and an atmospheric mood with Prospector.
Second-strongest match for Prospector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prospector.
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
Starvector
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Prospector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
Layer Land
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Prospector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
Layerland is a sandbox survival game set in a world that mirrors Earth’s terrain. Travel through gates, capture monsters as pets, and team up to battle, gather, craft, and build.
Autonomica
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Prospector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prospector.
Autonomica is an open-world survival automation game driven by time travel. Explore a fractured island, build automated farms and machinery, and travel into the future to extract rare technology and resources. Work with surviving engineers to unravel temporal anomalies and capture dangerous Phantoms
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Prospector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
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!
Nova Lands
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Prospector.
Ranked #7 for Prospector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Prospector.
Ranked #8 for Prospector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
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Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Prospector cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
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!
Nova Lands
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Prospector.
Reviewers of Prospector cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
ASTRONEER
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Prospector.
Reviewers of Prospector cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prospector.
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Prospector cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
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.
Forager
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Prospector.
Reviewers of Prospector cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prospector.
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Prospector at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Prospector on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Prospector.
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 ~67% under Prospector on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Prospector.
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 ~47% under Prospector on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prospector.
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 ~50% under Prospector on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Prospector.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Prospector on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
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 ~47% under Prospector on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
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 ~67% under Prospector on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
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 ~67% under Prospector on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Prospector.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Prospector.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Prospector.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prospector.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prospector.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prospector.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Prospector.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prospector.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Blossom: The Seed of Life
WHY THIS
Shares terraforming and an atmospheric mood with Prospector.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prospector.
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
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!
Nova Lands
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Prospector.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Frequently asked about Prospector
- Is Prospector verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Prospector is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Prospector cost?
- Prospector is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Prospector?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Prospector are Nightwater, Blossom: The Seed of Life, Starvector.
- Who developed Prospector?
- Prospector was developed by Loonworks 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 Prospector.
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