Games like Dual Universe
If Dual Universe is your kind of game, the closest matches are Starbase, FortressCraft : Chapter 1 and Rise - The Vieneo Province — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and epic. 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 Dual Universe: Dual Universe is a first-person Sci-Fi MMO built and driven by players, in a single persistent universe. You can build almost anything out of voxels, trade in a free economy, lead industries, travel through space, explore planets, or wage war in a fully editable sandbox universe. Subscription-based.
Players who liked Dual Universe also play
Steam players who put hours into Dual Universe 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.
Starbase
WHY THIS
Shares player driven economy and an immersive mood with Dual Universe.
Top pick for Dual Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Massively Multiplayer with Dual Universe.
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
FortressCraft : Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dual Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
FortressCraft : Chapter 1 Anniversary Edition is the PC-update to the world's first and best Creative-focussed Voxel block builder.
Rise - The Vieneo Province
WHY THIS
Shares player driven economy and an immersive mood with Dual Universe.
Third-strongest match for Dual Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Massively Multiplayer with Dual Universe.
Rise is a persistent science fiction sandbox strategy MMO set on Vieneo, an exomoon about 225 LY from Earth. Use ground, air, and space vehicles to explore this vast open world of 100 million square kilometers in size! You are helping establish a living, breathing world with virtually no boundaries!
Boundless
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Dual Universe.
Ranked #4 for Dual Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer with Dual Universe.
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Life is Feudal: MMO
WHY THIS
Shares player driven economy and an immersive mood with Dual Universe.
Ranked #5 for Dual Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Massively Multiplayer with Dual Universe.
Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.
SPACERIFT: Arcanum System
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Dual Universe.
Ranked #6 for Dual Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Dual Universe.
At the sunset of human life on planet Earth, you are a military pilot controlling a space ship, and you find yourself at the very epicenter of the battle in the solar system. You are forced to retreat into the unknown, distant Arcanum system through hyper-jumping.
Pax Dei
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Dual Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Dual Universe.
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
Islet Online
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dual Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Dual Universe.
Islet Online is a sandbox-style MMORPG. It is all about digging and placing bricks to build your own land. And with various materials from wildlife, bricks can be combined to make useful items, too. Whenever you act, your character gets experience.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Dual Universe
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Starbase
WHY THIS
Shares player driven economy and an immersive mood with Dual Universe.
Reviewers of Dual Universe cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and Massively Multiplayer with Dual Universe.
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
EVE Online
WHY THIS
Shares player driven economy and an immersive mood with Dual Universe.
Reviewers of Dual Universe cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Dual Universe.
Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.
Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Dual Universe.
Reviewers of Dual Universe cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Dual Universe.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
Killer Chat! - Original Edition
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and RPG with Dual Universe.
Killer Chat! is a satirical serial killer dating chatsim. Play as a (customisable!) writer as you pretend to be a serial killer, get inspiration for your book, fall in love and try not to call the cops through a whirlwind six months with your murderous beau of choice. What could possibly go wrong?
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
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Frequently asked about Dual Universe
- Does Dual Universe work on Steam Deck?
- Dual Universe is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- Does Dual Universe have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Dual Universe supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Dual Universe?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dual Universe are Starbase, FortressCraft : Chapter 1, Rise - The Vieneo Province.
- Who developed Dual Universe?
- Dual Universe was developed by Novaquark.
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 Dual Universe.
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