Games like Descent Horizon
If Descent Horizon is your kind of game, the closest matches are K2-18b: Legacy, Vessels and Exo One — 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 Descent Horizon: Guide a lunar lander through dangerous descents in Descent Horizon, a 2D physics-based sci-fi exploration game. Search abandoned lunar infrastructure, salvage parts, repair your systems, and survive a repeating cycle of impossible landings.
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Steam players who put hours into Descent Horizon 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.
K2-18b: Legacy
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Top pick for Descent Horizon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Descent Horizon.
In this walking simulator, you'll immerse yourself in a mysterious and unknown atmosphere accompanied by original, atmospheric music. As you navigate unique labyrinths, you'll uncover a fascinating storyline, explore the world of an exoplanet, and uncover its secrets.
Vessels
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Second-strongest match for Descent Horizon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Descent Horizon.
Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help you escape. Navigate volatile conversations & unravel mysteries in this narrative adventure about trust, self-destruction, & shifting identities.
Exo One
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Third-strongest match for Descent Horizon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Descent Horizon.
A strange signal... an alien craft... an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey through space and time.
Kerbal Space Program
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Ranked #4 for Descent Horizon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Descent Horizon.
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.
Gaia Beyond
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Ranked #5 for Descent Horizon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Descent Horizon.
Gaia Beyond is a handcrafted 2D Action-RPG, an exploration mix built around the core features fighting, mining and trading. Your decisions are footprints within a vast non-linear solar system. Forge alliances among numerous factions and develop relations with hundreds of NPCs.
Celestial Command
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Ranked #6 for Descent Horizon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Descent Horizon.
Mine asteroids, salvage space debris, design your own small or massive spacecraft using individual functional components, complete missions, and engage in battles against enemies in a vast galaxy with realistic physics based on orbital mechanics or in a classic physics mode.
The Swapper
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Ranked #7 for Descent Horizon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Descent Horizon.
What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
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Ranked #8 for Descent Horizon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Descent Horizon.
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
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 with Descent Horizon.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Descent Horizon.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Descent Horizon.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Descent Horizon.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Descent Horizon.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Descent Horizon.
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 Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Descent Horizon.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Descent Horizon.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Descent Horizon
- What games are most similar to Descent Horizon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Descent Horizon are K2-18b: Legacy, Vessels, Exo One.
- Who developed Descent Horizon?
- Descent Horizon was developed by Stroller Goat Studio.
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 Descent Horizon.
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