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Games like Away Team

If Away Team is your kind of game, the closest matches are Moose Builders, Kardaviik and Planet Gemini — 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 Away Team: Away Team is a new Oxygen Not Included game. Mistakenly shipped off to an alien world, you will need to harness the environment and master temperature, pressure, chemical reactions and more in order to survive, and possibly, thrive.

IndieAdventureSimulationWindowsby Klei Entertainment
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Players who liked Away Team also play

Steam players who put hours into Away Team 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. Moose Builders

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Away Team fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Away Team.

    Dig sand with a shovel and process into iron, silicon and more. Craft and merge better tools and machines to build solar panels to power them. Research new machines to automate everything in multi-story factories. Play alone or with friends to survive in the desert and turn it into a solar farm.

    StrategyAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  2. Kardaviik

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Away Team fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Away Team.

    Kardaviik is a 3D factory automation game set in a voxel asteroid belt. Your mission: harness energy, ascend the Kardashev Scale, and save Earth. Conquer the expansive procedurally generated belt by harvesting resources and extracting fuel, and build your ultimate space factory!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Planet Gemini

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Away Team fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Away Team.

    Planet Gemini is a factory-building and tower defense game. After crash-landing on two planets during an interdimensional journey, fend off waves of enemies and research a portal to survive.

    2026StrategyIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. CircuitVeil

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Away Team fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Away Team.

    CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  5. Belts of Iron

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Away Team fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Away Team.

    Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends

    2026ActionStrategyIndie13.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Mycelium Conquest: Mitosis

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Away Team fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Away Team.

    A free co-op automation game where you and up to 3 friends grow a living mycelial network across an alien planet. Consume local creatures, build biological production chains, and evolve from a tiny spore into a cosmic entity together.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  7. Amicraft Factory™

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Away Team fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Away Team.

    Tiny creatures. Massive factories. Zero stress. Amicraft Factory™ is a cozy co-op automation adventure where your adorable Ami friends help you build the most beautiful production empire in the world. Build solo. Or with friends.

    StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  8. Settletopia

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Away Team fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Away Team.

    Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.

    StrategySimulationSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Away Team.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Away Team.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Away Team.

    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. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Away Team.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Away Team.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Away Team.

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. 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 ↗
  8. Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Away Team.

    USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.

    2025IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

More from Klei Entertainment

Other recommendable Steam games by Klei Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Don't Starve Together

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Klei Entertainment, the studio behind Away Team. Shares Indie and Adventure with Away Team.

    Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

    2016ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Oxygen Not Included

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Klei Entertainment, the studio behind Away Team. Shares Indie and Simulation with Away Team.

    Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

    2019IndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Don't Starve

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Klei Entertainment, the studio behind Away Team. Shares Indie and Adventure with Away Team.

    Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

    2013IndieAdventureSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Griftlands

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Klei Entertainment, the studio behind Away Team. Shares Indie with Away Team.

    Griftlands is a deck-building roguelite where you negotiate, fight, steal or otherwise persuade others to get your way. Every decision is important, be it the jobs you take, the friends you make, or the cards you collect.

    2021Indie6.79 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Mark of the Ninja

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Klei Entertainment, the studio behind Away Team. Shares Indie and Adventure with Away Team.

    In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.

    2012ActionIndieAdventureDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Rotwood

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Klei Entertainment, the studio behind Away Team. Shares Adventure with Away Team.

    The world has been thrown into chaos, and it's up to you and your friends to battle the corrupted beasts of the Rotwood. Upgrade your gear, choose your preferred weapon, and hone your skills to defend your safe haven.

    2026ActionAdventureRPG29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Mark of the Ninja: Remastered

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Klei Entertainment, the studio behind Away Team. Shares Indie with Away Team.

    In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation.

    2018ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Hot Lava

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Klei Entertainment, the studio behind Away Team. Shares Indie and Adventure with Away Team.

    The Floor is Hot Lava! Run, jump, climb, and surf across nostalgia-packed environments flooded with hot molten lava. Explore alone, or join your friends. And whatever you do, don’t touch the floor.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Away Team

Does Away Team have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Away Team supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Away Team?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Away Team are Moose Builders, Kardaviik, Planet Gemini.
Who developed Away Team?
Away Team was developed by Klei Entertainment.

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 Away Team.

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