Games like Distant Sun
If Distant Sun is your kind of game, the closest matches are Escape Condition, The Outer Worlds and Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog — 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 Distant Sun: A sci-fi game based on character dialogue and choices. Uncover the mysteries of Pioneer Station by attempting diplomacy and seeking peace or gunning through those that stand against you. The decisions you make will have an impact on the ending.
Players who liked Distant Sun also play
Steam players who put hours into Distant Sun 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.
Escape Condition
WHY THIS
Top pick for Distant Sun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
ESCAPE CONDITION is the first FPS that lets you choose how to prepare your city for the catastrophic arrival of AI Superintelligence (EVA). Will you fight EVA alone with AI-powered Cybernetics, or empower the citizens around you to help in the fight?
The Outer Worlds
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Distant Sun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.
Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Distant Sun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.
Athenian Rhapsody
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Distant Sun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
Forge your own story and explore the world of Athens in Athenian Rhapsody, a souls-like platonic dating simulator with cooking-mama and WarioWare style battle mechanics... and by that I mean it's a choose-your-own-adventure action RPG with the ability to trade ENTIRE PLAYTHROUGHS between friends!!
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Distant Sun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
Breakout 13
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Distant Sun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
Breakout 13 is a thrilling narrative game with interactive cinematic experience. Based on true stories. Embark on a revealing journey as you attempt to break free from a negligent correctional institute and carve out your own path to justice. Each decision you make shapes the story.
ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Distant Sun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A sci-fi adventure full of robot battles, pop music, and emotion. Featuring one of the largest branching storylines ever in a VR game with 15-20 hours of gameplay, Altdeus will place you in the shoes of Chloe, a pilot in humanity's forces fighting massive hostile organisms known as the Meteora.
Roadwarden
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Ranked #8 for Distant Sun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Distant Sun at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Distant Sun on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Distant Sun on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Distant Sun on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
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?
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Distant Sun on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Streets of Rogue
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Distant Sun on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
Tower Wizard
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Distant Sun on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Distant Sun on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
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
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.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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!
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Frequently asked about Distant Sun
- How much does Distant Sun cost?
- Distant Sun is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Distant Sun?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Distant Sun are Escape Condition, The Outer Worlds, Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog.
- Who developed Distant Sun?
- Distant Sun was developed by Koboi Interactive.
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 Distant Sun.
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