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Games like Calling Home

If Calling Home is your kind of game, the closest matches are Belt Zero: The Long Drift, Pinsky Protocol and {Undefined} — 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.

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About Calling Home: Calling Home is an exciting sci-fi simulation resource management game that draws heavily from games in the factory-building and exploration genres, providing a thrilling mix of building your base, researching, factory management, puzzle solving, exploration, and resource gathering.

2023StrategyIndieAdventureEarly Access4.99 USDWindowsby Crystal Fox GmbH
Calling Home — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Calling Home 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.

  1. Belt Zero: The Long Drift

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Calling Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with Calling Home.

    Stranded in the asteroid belt with a broken ship and one working drill. Repair the ship part by part, mine your way back to the stars and grow a lifeboat into an empire. Offline counts exactly like online — no timers, no microtransactions, buy once.

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  2. Pinsky Protocol

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Calling Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Calling Home.

    Play as Agent 8085, the most advanced mining AI sent to asteroid 8085 Pinsky. Extract resources, upgrade your systems, and complete missions that affect the future of humanity. Your choices matter: promote unity, extinction, remain neutral. A sci-fi strategy game where your decisions have impact.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. {Undefined}

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Calling Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Calling Home.

    A sandbox survival game, set on life-sized voxel planets with realistic physics with the possibility to shape your own building blocks. From your custom made furniture, walls to vehicle parts. You shape the blocks which can then be used to build buildings, spacecraft and aircraft.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. HAS Galactics

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Calling Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Calling Home.

    HAS Galactics is a top-down factory builder. Design your own rocket, automate your production lines, balance your reputation between the Galactic Factions and complete daring missions. Start from a humble beginning… to a thriving galactic mega-factory!

    2025ActionStrategyIndie11.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. MORS

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Calling Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Calling Home.

    Build an automated factory on a true-scale Mars streamed from real NASA terrain. Mine, smelt and belt resources, run trains between outposts, master chemistry, and grow from a lone lander into a planet-spanning industry while the real Martian weather does its worst.

    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. Starvector

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Calling Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Calling Home.

    Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  7. Hard landing: Arrival

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Calling Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Calling Home.

    An economic strategy where the player must adapt the colony to support human life on an uncharted planet. Production puzzles and unforeseen disasters await the player.

    2022StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Space Travellers

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Calling Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Calling Home.

    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!

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Calling Home at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Calling Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Calling Home.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Calling Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Calling Home.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Calling Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Calling Home.

    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.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Calling Home on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Calling Home.

    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.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Calling Home on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Calling Home.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Calling Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Calling Home.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The NOexistenceN of you AND me

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Calling Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Calling Home.

    Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".

    2024IndieAdventureRPG1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Calling Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Calling Home.

    "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Calling Home.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Calling Home.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Calling Home.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Calling Home.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Calling Home.

    Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. Control, I'm Not Coming Back

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Calling Home.

    Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Calling Home.

    Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.

    2021IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Calling Home

How much does Calling Home cost?
Calling Home is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Calling Home?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Calling Home are Belt Zero: The Long Drift, Pinsky Protocol, {Undefined}.
Who developed Calling Home?
Calling Home was developed by Crystal Fox GmbH.

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 Calling Home.

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