Games like Stacks:Space!
Below are 13 hand-picked alternatives to Stacks:Space! for fans of indie, simulation, free to play, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Stacks:Space! also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Stacks:Space!: Stacks:Space is a space-themed base builder card game with rogue-like elements. Buy booster packs to get new cards, discover craft recipes by stacking cards together, create structures, manufacture drones and droids, defend your base from enemies, visit distant planets, and more!
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Hexfactory
Second-strongest match for Stacks:Space! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacks:Space!.
Build cities and factories in an infinite Hex World. Explore more tiles. Balance your city's production and consumption, attract more citizens of different classes, research new technologies and build more factories and cities.
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Surviving Mars
Third-strongest match for Stacks:Space! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Stacks:Space!.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
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ExoColony: Planet Survival
Ranked #4 for Stacks:Space! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacks:Space!.
Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply. Maintain a breathable atmosphere, tackle pollution, and refine materials to build essential structures. Terraform planet and build ecosystem to make it your new home.
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Venusville - Prologue
Ranked #5 for Stacks:Space! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacks:Space!.
Guide a robotic mission in Venus’s polar clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy to stay afloat, in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient base while navigating storms and acid clouds to hunt mysterious anomalies.
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Rebots
Ranked #6 for Stacks:Space! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacks:Space!.
Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!
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The Final Earth 2
Ranked #7 for Stacks:Space! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacks:Space!.
The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?
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Space Haven
Ranked #8 for Stacks:Space! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacks:Space!.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Stacks:Space!
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Factorio
Reviewers of Stacks:Space! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacks:Space!.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Slay the Spire
Reviewers of Stacks:Space! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Stacks:Space!.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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Cultist Simulator
Reviewers of Stacks:Space! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacks:Space!.
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
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Monster Train
Reviewers of Stacks:Space! cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
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Stacklands
Reviewers of Stacks:Space! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacks:Space!.
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
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Frequently asked about Stacks:Space!
- Is Stacks:Space! free to play?
- Yes — Stacks:Space! is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Stacks:Space!?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Stacks:Space! are Star Boss, Hexfactory, Surviving Mars.
- Who developed Stacks:Space!?
- Stacks:Space! was developed by Stacks:Engine.
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 Stacks:Space!.
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