Games like Space Drilling Station
If Space Drilling Station is your kind of game, the closest matches are Star Trek: Outposts Unknown, SpaceSlog and Calyx — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Space Drilling Station: In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!
Players who liked Space Drilling Station also play
Steam players who put hours into Space Drilling Station 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.
Star Trek: Outposts Unknown
WHY THIS
Top pick for Space Drilling Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Drilling Station.
Lead your crew across strange new worlds in this narrative driven outpost builder! Research, explore, and build as you face a mysterious cosmic force that threatens a new ally. Your adventure awaits, Captain!
SpaceSlog
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Space Drilling Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Space Drilling Station.
Build your spaceship, manage your crew, and explore the cosmos whilst trying to keep your crew alive and your ship fully functioning. This game features simulated ship systems and a lived in universe which creates a challenging, unique and unforgettable experience with every playthrough.
Calyx
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Space Drilling Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Space Drilling Station.
A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?
Here Comes The Swarm
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Space Drilling Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Space Drilling Station.
Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
New Home: Medieval Village
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Space Drilling Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Space Drilling Station.
New Home Medieval Village is a zoning-based medieval themed city building game. Create zoning areas according to the demands of the villagers and meet the needs of the villagers. Keep them happy with your service buildings and attract wealthier villagers to your village.
Let Them Trade
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Space Drilling Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Space Drilling Station.
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
Whiskerwood
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Space Drilling Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Space Drilling Station.
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Ground of Aces
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Space Drilling Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Space Drilling Station.
Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Space Drilling Station at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Space Drilling Station on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Space Drilling Station.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Space Drilling Station on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Space Drilling Station.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Space Drilling Station on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Space Drilling Station.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Space Drilling Station on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Space Drilling Station.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Space Drilling Station on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Drilling Station.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Space Drilling Station on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Space Drilling Station.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Space Drilling Station on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Drilling Station.
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 ~60% under Space Drilling Station on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Drilling Station.
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...
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Space Drilling Station.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Space Drilling Station.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Space Drilling Station.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Space Drilling Station.
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!
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about Space Drilling Station
- Does Space Drilling Station run on Steam Deck?
- Space Drilling Station 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 Space Drilling Station cost?
- Space Drilling Station is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Space Drilling Station?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Space Drilling Station are Star Trek: Outposts Unknown, SpaceSlog, Calyx.
- Who developed Space Drilling Station?
- Space Drilling Station was developed by Ayota Games and published by Abiding Bridge, WhisperGames.
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 Space Drilling Station.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.