Games like Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
If Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is your kind of game, the closest matches are Beyond the Chiron Gate, Sword of the Stars: The Pit and Star Devil — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its every run feels fresh, moddable for endless replayability and cozy. 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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Beyond the Chiron Gate
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Top pick for Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Explore an endless text-based universe filled with exotic planets, strange life forms, and ancient civilisations. Manage a crew of space explorers, upgrade their ship, and brave dangerous worlds to gather the data you need to reach the mysterious Gatebuilders.
Sword of the Stars: The Pit
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Shares procedural generation with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Second-strongest match for Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
A fun, fast, light-hearted, turn-based RPG, where the tradition of old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe!
Star Devil
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Third-strongest match for Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Star Devil is a Sci-fi Station Survival Roguelike Game with dynamic alien infection. Playable in both single player and split-screen co-op.
Heat Signature
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Shares a whimsical mood with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Ranked #4 for Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
FTL: Faster Than Light
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Shares a retro mood with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Ranked #5 for Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Crying Suns
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Ranked #6 for Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Crying Suns is a tactical rogue-lite that puts you in the role of a space fleet commander as you explore a mysteriously fallen empire. In this story rich experience inspired by Dune and Foundation, each successful run will uncover the truth about the Empire... and yourself as well.
Approaching Infinity
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Shares a retro mood with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Ranked #7 for Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Approaching Infinity is a turn-based space RPG in the spirit of the sci-fi classics, with endless progression and exploration. Fight tactical battles or use diplomacy. Seek powerful artifacts. Quest, mine, trade, and craft. Level up forever or attempt 10 victories in hardcore or adventure mode.
Void War
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Shares procedural generation with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Ranked #8 for Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.
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Infinite Adventures®
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Shares a whimsical mood with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Reviewers of Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Infinite Adventures® is a turn-based, first-person dungeon crawler with deep party customization, strategic combat, and a fully voiced story. Inspired by classic RPGs for a nostalgic yet modern gameplay experience. Assemble your party and explore the Labyrinth to discover the truths of your past.
Star Control I and II
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Shares ship upgrades with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Reviewers of Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Explore a vast universe with pulse-pounding action, side-splitting humor, and hair-raising plot twists in these 2 classic space adventure games.
Star Control III
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Shares a whimsical mood with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Reviewers of Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
The universe is on the brink of destruction. It’s up to you to embark on an epic adventure of strategy and diplomacy to save thousands of worlds from total annihilation. But no pressure, right?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~60% under Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~80% under Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
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 Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
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 Indie and Adventure with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
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.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
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.
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BRAINPIPE: A Plunge to Unhumanity
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Another title from Digital Eel, the studio behind Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space. Shares Indie and Casual with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Brainpipe is a first person game of spatial navigation and quick reflexes. Supported by hypnotic graphics, ear tickling sound effects and immersive dreamscape music, the game's free floating, forward moving intensity gradually increases from serene to frenetic as you play.
Data Jammers: FastForward
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Another title from Digital Eel, the studio behind Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space. Shares Indie with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
You are a Data Jammer, an elite virtual commando tasked with one purpose: Infiltrate the virtual Vaults of Ouroboros, the Military Industrial Complex, and take down The System!
Infinite Space III: Sea of Stars
WHY THIS
Another title from Digital Eel, the studio behind Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space. Shares Indie and Adventure with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Sea of Stars is a starship roguelike, a sandbox adventure game of interstellar exploration and combat. Travel from star to star, upgrade your ship with new systems and weapons, build up your flotilla with allies and mercenaries, and take on a variety of alien menaces.
Protagon VR
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Another title from Digital Eel, the studio behind Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space. Shares Indie and Casual with Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
Protagon is a hybrid casual game that blends concepts from mini-golf and pinball with an intuitive VR interface. Just pull the handle on the ball, aim and release to launch it into the zero-gravity course!
Frequently asked about Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
- Does Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space run on Steam Deck?
- Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space 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 Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space cost?
- Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space are Beyond the Chiron Gate, Sword of the Stars: The Pit, Star Devil.
- Who developed Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space?
- Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space was developed by Digital Eel.
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