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Games like Hard landing: Arrival

If Hard landing: Arrival is your kind of game, the closest matches are Death By FrostByte, Avian Colony and Urban Entrepreneur — 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 Hard landing: Arrival: An economic strategy where the player must adapt the colony to support human life on an uncharted planet. Production puzzles and unforeseen disasters await the player.

2022StrategyIndieAdventureEarly Access7.99 USDWindowsby Sergey Jakovlev
Hard landing: Arrival — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Hard landing: Arrival 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. Death By FrostByte

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Hard landing: Arrival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard landing: Arrival.

    Build up your company to mine resources and manufacture parts, research new technologies, build up your industry with limited resources. Can you survive the harsh arctic climates of a new ice age?

    2021StrategyIndieCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Avian Colony

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Hard landing: Arrival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard landing: Arrival.

    Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Urban Entrepreneur

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Hard landing: Arrival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard landing: Arrival.

    Manage inventory, staff, prices and more while creating a monopoly!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Space Architect

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Hard landing: Arrival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard landing: Arrival.

    Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Founders Legacy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Hard landing: Arrival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard landing: Arrival.

    A relaxing idle-colony builder that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things,Design Your Ultimate colony.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  6. STARIO: Haven Tower

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Hard landing: Arrival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Hard landing: Arrival.

    A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.

    2025StrategySimulationCasual12.59 USDSteam ↗
  7. Captain of Industry

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Hard landing: Arrival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard landing: Arrival.

    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.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Craftlings

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Hard landing: Arrival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard landing: Arrival.

    Inspired by legendary classics from the ’90s, Craftlings will take you on a journey full of strategic decisions and test your skills in optimizing automated production chains and Craftlings’ paths. Gather, deliver, build, and fight for wealth and glory in the unique, nostalgic world of Craftlings.

    2026StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hard landing: Arrival at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~88% under Hard landing: Arrival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hard landing: Arrival.

    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. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Hard landing: Arrival on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hard landing: Arrival.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. GRIS

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Hard landing: Arrival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hard landing: Arrival.

    Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.

    2018IndieAdventure3.74 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Hard landing: Arrival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hard landing: Arrival.

    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 ↗
  5. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~81% under Hard landing: Arrival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hard landing: Arrival.

    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 ↗
  6. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~88% under Hard landing: Arrival on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Hard landing: Arrival.

    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 ↗
  7. Crypt of the NecroDancer

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Hard landing: Arrival on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hard landing: Arrival.

    Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!

    2015ActionIndieRPG2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. A Short Hike

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Hard landing: Arrival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hard landing: Arrival.

    Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

    2019IndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hard landing: Arrival.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hard landing: Arrival.

    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 Indie and Adventure with Hard landing: Arrival.

    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 Indie and Adventure with Hard landing: Arrival.

    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. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hard landing: Arrival.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hard landing: Arrival.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hard landing: Arrival.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hard landing: Arrival.

    A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Hard landing: Arrival

How much does Hard landing: Arrival cost?
Hard landing: Arrival is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Hard landing: Arrival?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hard landing: Arrival are Death By FrostByte, Avian Colony, Urban Entrepreneur.
Who developed Hard landing: Arrival?
Hard landing: Arrival was developed by Sergey Jakovlev and published by TAC 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 Hard landing: Arrival.

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