Games like The Planetarian
If The Planetarian is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tohunga, King Assassination and Broken Orbits — 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 The Planetarian: A third-person bullet hell shooter with a run-and-build loop. Absorb incoming fire, slow time in Golden Time to strike glowing weak points, and rebuild your loadout each run with planet items, artifacts, and engravings as you fight across seven planets.
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Tohunga
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Top pick for The Planetarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Planetarian.
50% shooter, 20% RPG, 30% survival. Explore islands and oceans in an open world with a dynamic day/night cycle, traveling by plane, car, horse, and boat. Fight bandits and predators using guns, melee weapons, grenades, drones, and UFO assistance.
King Assassination
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Second-strongest match for The Planetarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Planetarian.
A fast-paced multiplayer deception game where Guards protect the King and Assassins hunt their target. Work together, deceive your enemies, identify threats, and strike at the perfect moment to claim victory.
Broken Orbits
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Third-strongest match for The Planetarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Planetarian.
Broken Orbits is a fast-paced 1–4 player co-op space-combat game. Tear through hostile fleets, loot wild weapons and prototype effects, create devastating loadout combinations, and fight through a complete three-chapter campaign against the Ancients.
Ghost Squad
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Ranked #4 for The Planetarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Planetarian.
A fast, action‑packed 3D shooter where you join the elite Ghost Squad to battle deadly Warbots, unleash powerful weapons, and reclaim war‑torn zones from an AI invasion.
Hologram
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Ranked #5 for The Planetarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Planetarian.
Hologram is a third-person shooter that takes place in the middle of the war of realities. In a world beyond the past and the future, transformed by illusion, evolve and overcome rapidly changing battlefields with time manipulation abilities.
Moon Wars
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Ranked #6 for The Planetarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Planetarian.
Enemies have conquered the moon and planned for destroying the entire world except them as they feel superiority over the world. Player has to go through intense space mission and destroy enemies.
Anime Girls VS Soldiers
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Ranked #7 for The Planetarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Planetarian.
This game basically anime soldiers fight game. Very very dark story(NONE) and some losses(NONE) Oh Anime Girls very upset now and soldiers to. Cover yourself because they are very very angry. You have to be in life and you have to take high score.
The Legend of the War Axe
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Ranked #8 for The Planetarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Planetarian.
The Legend of the War Ax is a real-time, third-person PvP combat. Choose a hero and fight other players in various arenas. Dynamic sword fighting, archery, magic and bombs. Now there are 10 heroes for which you can play.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Planetarian.
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.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Planetarian.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Planetarian.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
The Lab
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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!
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Planetarian.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Planetarian.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Planetarian.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
South Scrimshaw, Part One
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Planetarian.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
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Frequently asked about The Planetarian
- What games are most similar to The Planetarian?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Planetarian are Tohunga, King Assassination, Broken Orbits.
- Who developed The Planetarian?
- The Planetarian was developed by YeopStudio.
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 Planetarian.
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