Games like Create Your Own Universe
If Create Your Own Universe is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rise - The Vieneo Province, Lost Fleet and Avorion — 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 Create Your Own Universe: Create Your Own Universe is a survival, crafting, exploration, base building, third person, open world, go anywhere you see on screen space game.
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Steam players who put hours into Create Your Own Universe 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.
Rise - The Vieneo Province
WHY THIS
Top pick for Create Your Own Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Create Your Own Universe.
Rise is a persistent science fiction sandbox strategy MMO set on Vieneo, an exomoon about 225 LY from Earth. Use ground, air, and space vehicles to explore this vast open world of 100 million square kilometers in size! You are helping establish a living, breathing world with virtually no boundaries!
Lost Fleet
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Create Your Own Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Early Access with Create Your Own Universe.
Lost Fleet is a co-op space shooter. Every ship in your fleet is flyable, from the smallest fighter to the largest battleship. Protect the Mothership, mine resources, crush your enemies.
Avorion
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Create Your Own Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Create Your Own Universe.
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
SPACERIFT: Arcanum System
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Create Your Own Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Create Your Own Universe.
At the sunset of human life on planet Earth, you are a military pilot controlling a space ship, and you find yourself at the very epicenter of the battle in the solar system. You are forced to retreat into the unknown, distant Arcanum system through hyper-jumping.
Stormworks: Build and Rescue
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Create Your Own Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Create Your Own Universe.
Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
Dual Universe
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Create Your Own Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Massively Multiplayer with Create Your Own Universe.
Dual Universe is a first-person Sci-Fi MMO built and driven by players, in a single persistent universe. You can build almost anything out of voxels, trade in a free economy, lead industries, travel through space, explore planets, or wage war in a fully editable sandbox universe. Subscription-based.
DeadPoly
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Create Your Own Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Create Your Own Universe.
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
SpaceBourne 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Create Your Own Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Create Your Own Universe.
Embark on a journey to greatness. Get ready for adrenaline-fueled battles and a chance to claim your place in the galaxy. Grab the controls of your ship, gear up for the fight, and unleash your ambition to conquer and build a new empire in the vastness of space.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Create Your Own Universe at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Create Your Own Universe on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Create Your Own Universe.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~74% under Create Your Own Universe on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Create Your Own Universe.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Create Your Own Universe on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Create Your Own Universe.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Create Your Own Universe on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Create Your Own Universe.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Create Your Own Universe on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Create Your Own Universe.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~74% under Create Your Own Universe on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Create Your Own Universe.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Create Your Own Universe.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Warframe
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Create Your Own Universe.
Awaken as an unstoppable warrior and battle alongside your friends in this story-driven free-to-play online action game
Muck
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Create Your Own Universe.
Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Create Your Own Universe.
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ is a free-to-play MMORPG that puts you at the center of your own story-driven saga. Play as a Jedi, Sith, Bounty Hunter, or one of many other iconic STAR WARS roles in the galaxy far, far away over three thousand years before the classic films.
Supermarket Together
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Create Your Own Universe.
The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!
Fallout Shelter
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and RPG with Create Your Own Universe.
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
Palia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Create Your Own Universe.
Discover a welcoming world in Palia, a free-to-play fantasy life sim adventure where you can craft, explore, and create the life and home of your dreams. With nearly endless ways to make Palia your home, you’ll find relaxation and joy in every corner of this vibrant, heartwarming world.
Wuthering Waves
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Create Your Own Universe.
Wuthering Waves is a story-rich open-world action RPG with a high degree of freedom. You wake from your slumber as Rover, joined by a vibrant cast of Resonators on a journey to reclaim your lost memories and change the world.
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Frequently asked about Create Your Own Universe
- How much does Create Your Own Universe cost?
- Create Your Own Universe is listed on Steam at 18.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Create Your Own Universe have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Create Your Own Universe supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Create Your Own Universe?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Create Your Own Universe are Rise - The Vieneo Province, Lost Fleet, Avorion.
- Who developed Create Your Own Universe?
- Create Your Own Universe was developed by UNPREDICTABLE GAMES.
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 Create Your Own Universe.
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