Games like The Abandoned Planet
If The Abandoned Planet is your kind of game, the closest matches are War of the Wormholes: Janitor Duty, Zly.ii: The Hacked Station and The Unknown — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cozy sci fi exploration, environmental storytelling is intriguing and journal translation deepens narrative. 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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War of the Wormholes: Janitor Duty
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Abandoned Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Planet.
Welcome to the wild world of the distant future! Become a SPACE JANITOR in this exciting, comedic, and puzzle filled point and click adventure game!
Zly.ii: The Hacked Station
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Abandoned Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Planet.
Zly.ii The Hacked Station is a first-person sci-fi adventure game made for the 10th anniversary of the Black Cube series (ASA, Myha...). Visit an abandoned space station, and try to get a Black Cube while searching for your lost friend...
The Unknown
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Abandoned Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Planet.
Aboard a small spaceship, you embark on an exploration, daring to face the threats of the universe. Activate your spaceship and uncover the hidden secrets of this vast cosmos.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Abandoned Planet.
Ranked #4 for The Abandoned Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Planet.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
The Eyes of Ara
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Abandoned Planet.
Ranked #5 for The Abandoned Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Planet.
Explore a vast, mysterious castle riddled with secret rooms and challenging puzzles in this award-winning puzzle adventure.
FoxTail
WHY THIS
Shares backtracking and a cozy mood with The Abandoned Planet.
Ranked #6 for The Abandoned Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Planet.
FoxTail is a classic quest inspired by the mid-90s games. Complex quests and freedom in solving them, an interesting plot, beautiful graphics and, of course, an atmosphere of mystery and adventure.
Phantom Fury
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Abandoned Planet.
Ranked #7 for The Abandoned Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Abandoned Planet.
Shelly “Bombshell” Harrison is back in this highly interactive mix of first person action and road movie adventure. Embark on an adrenaline-fueled journey around the USA. Use an enormous arsenal of weapons and skills to battle treacherous soldiers and vile mutants, all while trying to save mankind.
Tacoma
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Abandoned Planet.
Ranked #8 for The Abandoned Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Planet.
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Abandoned Planet
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The Escapist
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Abandoned Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Abandoned Planet.
A fast paced die-a-lot platformer
Return to Monkey Island
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with The Abandoned Planet.
Reviewers of The Abandoned Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Abandoned Planet.
Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.
The Dig®
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Abandoned Planet.
Reviewers of The Abandoned Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Abandoned Planet.
An asteroid the size of a small moon is on a crash course toward Earth. Once the wayward asteroid is nuked into a safe orbit, a trio conducts a routine examination of the rocky surface. What they uncover is anything but routine.
Broken Sword: Director's Cut (2009)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Abandoned Planet.
Reviewers of The Abandoned Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Abandoned Planet.
One of the all-time classic adventures, multi award winning "Broken Sword: Director's Cut" pitches sassy journalist Nico Collard, and intrepid American George Stobbart into a mysterious journey of intrigue and jeopardy.
Leisure Suit Larry 7 - Love for Sail
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Abandoned Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Abandoned Planet.
When we last saw our less-than-dashing hero, Leisure Suit Larry, he was in a rather sticky situation. Not one to be tied down, Larry makes the best of things by going on a cruise to forget the previous escapade.
DIG THE GROUND
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Abandoned Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with The Abandoned Planet.
Dig the Ground is a unique Match3 puzzler in which you have to match gems of the same color and use all sorts of tools to clear the ground tiles beneath you.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Abandoned Planet at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Abandoned Planet on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Abandoned Planet.
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 The Abandoned Planet on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Abandoned Planet.
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 The Abandoned Planet on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Planet.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Abandoned Planet on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Abandoned Planet.
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 The Abandoned Planet on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Planet.
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 The Abandoned Planet on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Abandoned Planet.
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 The Abandoned Planet on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Abandoned Planet.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Abandoned Planet on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Planet.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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 and Casual with The Abandoned 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 Adventure with The Abandoned 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 Indie with The Abandoned Planet.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Abandoned Planet.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Planet.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Abandoned Planet.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 The Abandoned 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.
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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.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Abandoned Planet.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Planet.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
Phantom Fury
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Abandoned Planet.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with The Abandoned Planet.
Shelly “Bombshell” Harrison is back in this highly interactive mix of first person action and road movie adventure. Embark on an adrenaline-fueled journey around the USA. Use an enormous arsenal of weapons and skills to battle treacherous soldiers and vile mutants, all while trying to save mankind.
Tacoma
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Abandoned Planet.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Abandoned Planet.
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
Frequently asked about The Abandoned Planet
- Does The Abandoned Planet run on Steam Deck?
- The Abandoned Planet 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 Abandoned Planet cost?
- The Abandoned Planet is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Abandoned Planet?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Abandoned Planet are War of the Wormholes: Janitor Duty, Zly.ii: The Hacked Station, The Unknown.
- Who developed The Abandoned Planet?
- The Abandoned Planet was developed by Dexter Team Games and published by Snapbreak.
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 The Abandoned Planet.
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