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Games like The Planetarian

If The Planetarian is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hologram, Moon Wars and Anime Girls VS Soldiers — 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 The Planetarian: Join the Planetarian, guardian of the World Tree, on an epic journey to protect various planets. Experience intense third-person shooter gameplay with bullet hell elements. Battle diverse enemies across seven visually stunning planets and collect equipment infused with planetary energy.

ActionIndieAdventureWindowsby YeopStudio
The Planetarian — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into The Planetarian 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. Hologram

    WHY THIS

    Top pick 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.

    2022ActionAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Moon Wars

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match 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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Anime Girls VS Soldiers

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match 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.

    2022ActionStrategyIndie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. The Legend of the War Axe

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 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.

    2021ActionIndieMassively Multiplayer1.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Crysis 2 Remastered

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Planetarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Planetarian.

    Relive the legendary single-player campaign from the classic first-person shooter, Crysis 2, optimized for today's hardware in Crysis 2 Remastered.

    2022Action11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Crysis 3 Remastered

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Planetarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Planetarian.

    Experience the single-player experience from the iconic first-person shooter, Crysis 3, optimized to take advantage of today's hardware in Crysis 3 Remastered.

    2022Action13.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. I FORGOT TO TAKE THE CHICKEN OUT OF THE FREEZER

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Planetarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Planetarian.

    You forgot to defrost the chicken. Now there are zombies. Aim, shoot, sprint, and reload through a stormy graveyard in this single-player survival shooter, dodging a relentless boss named Um Fatima while reflecting on the dinner that could have been.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  8. Cyberpunk SFX

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Planetarian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Planetarian.

    What can be more spectacular than a girl armed with rockets and a sense of humor? Yes, she is about to start solving the problems of the 21st century. And if you want to make sure she doesn’t create a few new ones, you’ll have to show her the way.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Tails Noir: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt

    WHY THIS

    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).

    2016ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2021ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. South Scrimshaw, Part One

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2023IndieCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 Hologram, Moon Wars, Anime Girls VS Soldiers.
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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