Games like Cratered
If Cratered is your kind of game, the closest matches are Starship Fighters: Space Combat Simulator, RoboSamurai and Stellaxy — 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 Cratered: Cratered is an open-world planet exploration game with a distinct illustrative style. Explore a star system, land on planets with your ship and walk around in first-person. Use tools to dig into the surface to find hidden items. Meteors, explosions and collisions make craters on the surface.
Players who liked Cratered also play
Steam players who put hours into Cratered 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.
Starship Fighters: Space Combat Simulator
WHY THIS
Top pick for Cratered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cratered.
Pilot your starship in Starship Fighters, a realistic space combat simulator. Engage in intense battles, explore vast galaxies, and unleash destruction with an arsenal of powerful weapons in a universe teeming with enemies!
RoboSamurai
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cratered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cratered.
RoboSamurai is a 3rd-person fast-paced sword-fighting action/slasher game about Nix: a robot mechanic turned katana-wielding fighter. Set in a cyberpunk dystopian city filled with corruption and tyrannical corporations waiting for him to let his guard down.
Stellaxy
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cratered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cratered.
Stellaxy is a space exploration immersive sim with alien cultures, boss battles, and massive Universes containing billions of planets to explore! Discover the mysteries of the Universes and find collectibles while completing quests.
Observa
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cratered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cratered.
Alone on a floating island in deep space, you use your telescope to study the universe, capture what you find, and confront the growing sense that something out there is aware of you.
Cradle-18
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Ranked #5 for Cratered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cratered.
A sci-fi immersive sim with horror elements set on an abandoned orbital station. Manage life support systems, conserve resources, and survive in an atmosphere of mounting pressure where the environment is fully interactive.
Space Travellers
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Cratered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cratered.
Space Travellers is a unique open-world sandbox space simulator set in the year 2343. Travel the galaxy, trade, explore unexplored worlds, fight, build bases and factories, forge alliances and experience new adventures!
Space Station Escape
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Cratered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cratered.
Space Station Escape is a anomaly horror game.Players take on the role of an astronaut wanting to escape from a spaceship running out of oxygen.
Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Cratered fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cratered.
Out of cash, out of luck, out on the fringe. Juno Markev has a killer to tail, a debt to pay, and more trouble headed her way. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw takes place in a greasy, blue-collar world of outlaws, truckers, cops and thieves.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cratered at current Steam store prices.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Cratered on Steam right now. Shares Action with Cratered.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Cratered on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cratered.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Cratered on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cratered.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Cratered on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cratered.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Cratered on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cratered.
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 ~81% under Cratered on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cratered.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Cratered on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Cratered.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Cratered on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cratered.
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!
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 Cratered.
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. Shares Action and Adventure with Cratered.
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. Shares Action and Indie with Cratered.
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. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cratered.
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. Shares Action and Indie with Cratered.
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. Shares Indie with Cratered.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cratered.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Cratered
- How much does Cratered cost?
- Cratered is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cratered?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cratered are Starship Fighters: Space Combat Simulator, RoboSamurai, Stellaxy.
- Who developed Cratered?
- Cratered was developed by NinjaFredde AB.
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 Cratered.
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