Games like Planetiles
If Planetiles is your kind of game, the closest matches are Preserve, Blink Planets and Mars vs. Robots — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and cozy. 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 Planetiles: Dive into Planetiles, where strategy and creativity converge. Build and transform barren planets into flourishing worlds. Outwit natural disasters, develop vibrant habitats, and navigate complex challenges. Embrace a boardgame-like depth with thoughtful planning and strategic decision-making.
Players who liked Planetiles also play
Steam players who put hours into Planetiles 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.
Preserve
WHY THIS
Shares tile placement and a relaxing mood with Planetiles.
Top pick for Planetiles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
Preserve is a relaxing puzzle nature-building game in which you flourish a vibrant ecosystem by cleverly placing plants and animals to create a perfect symbiosis to your liking.
Blink Planets
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Planetiles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetiles.
Blink Planets is a strategy puzzle game where you pioneer a wasteland planet into a settleable home for people. The colorful "BASE" symbolizes the resource needed to develop a planet. Place "BLOCKS" to secure further land. Explore more planets to continue welcoming migrants.
Mars vs. Robots
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Planetiles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Planetiles.
Defend Mars from humans
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Planetiles.
Ranked #4 for Planetiles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Planetiles.
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.
Dawnfolk
WHY THIS
Shares achievement hunting, puzzle solving and atmospheric with Planetiles.
Ranked #5 for Planetiles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Planetiles.
Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game. Gather resources, rebuild your realm, and protect your people from oppressive shadows. Can you unveil the secrets of the monoliths and bring light back to the world?
Terraforming Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Planetiles.
Ranked #6 for Planetiles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Planetiles.
The taming of the Red Planet has begun! Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources and using innovative technology to raise temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water.
Tharsis
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Planetiles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetiles.
Succeeding in Tharsis requires you to make the best of what you have, even if it happens to be a pair of snake eyes. Certain factors may be outside of your control, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be overcome. Tharsis is not a game about facing the odds. It’s a game about changing them.
EcoGnomix
WHY THIS
Shares roguelite progression, upgrade system, whimsical and an atmospheric mood with Planetiles.
Ranked #8 for Planetiles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetiles.
A quirky mix of roguelite and city builder. Build a lively little city above, by looting mystical caves with a team of gnomes below! Use multiple runs to unlock upgrades and abilities to help your gnomes venture deeper into the dangerous underground.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Planetiles
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Puyo Puyo™Tetris®
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Planetiles.
Reviewers of Planetiles cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Two puzzle game juggernauts collide as global phenomenon Tetris® and SEGA’s famous Puyo Puyo™ combine in a super mash-up of ferocious competition, adorable looks, and addictive puzzle fun!
Dorfromantik
WHY THIS
Shares a peaceful mood with Planetiles.
Reviewers of Planetiles cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetiles.
Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!
ANIME TETRIS
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Planetiles cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetiles.
The legendary game "Tetris" in a unique performance and atmosphere
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Planetiles at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Planetiles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
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?
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Planetiles on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetiles.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Planetiles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
"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!
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Planetiles on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Planetiles.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Planetiles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Planetiles on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetiles.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Planetiles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
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.
Samorost 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Lily's Well
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
DOGWALK
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetiles.
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.
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More from MythicOwl
Other recommendable Steam games by MythicOwl, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Hexologic
WHY THIS
Shares a peaceful mood with Planetiles.
Another title from MythicOwl, the studio behind Planetiles. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetiles.
Immerse yourself in the beautiful world of Hexologic. Solve challenging, yet rewarding puzzles, listen to relaxing music, dive deep into the game’s atmosphere and fall in love in with Sudoku again!
Harmony's Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Planetiles.
Another title from MythicOwl, the studio behind Planetiles. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
Harmony’s Odyssey is a 3D fantasy adventure puzzle game set on mythical dioramas full of riddles, perky creatures and magic. Embark on a fantastic journey through remote fabled lands tangled by a rowdy cat and bring peace to its inhabitants.
Seabed Prelude
WHY THIS
Another title from MythicOwl, the studio behind Planetiles. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
Embark on a journey through a post-apocalyptic underwater steampunk world! Get ready for a musical adventure with detective elements. Discover the secrets behind the city-domes and unravel the mystery of Constructors.
Trancelation
WHY THIS
Another title from MythicOwl, the studio behind Planetiles. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
A dynamic arcade game set in a neon universe full of fractals and translations! Boost your memory, develop new skills, and improve your scores to become a master of Trancelation in this ever-changing journey through linguistics!
One Line Coloring
WHY THIS
Another title from MythicOwl, the studio behind Planetiles. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
A vibrant world of colorful shapes awaits! Connect the dots to uncover charming objects in this colorful take on a classic paper puzzle game. Complete lively dioramas and relax yourself in the pastel world of One Line Coloring.
Truckful
WHY THIS
Another title from MythicOwl, the studio behind Planetiles. Shares Indie with Planetiles.
Drive your pickup truck through seemingly peaceful countryside valleys, deliver much-needed goods to local townsfolk and unravel the small town mystery. Beware, the old forest is watching.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dawnfolk
WHY THIS
Shares achievement hunting, puzzle solving and atmospheric with Planetiles.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Planetiles.
Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game. Gather resources, rebuild your realm, and protect your people from oppressive shadows. Can you unveil the secrets of the monoliths and bring light back to the world?
Terraforming Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Planetiles.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Planetiles.
The taming of the Red Planet has begun! Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources and using innovative technology to raise temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water.
Tharsis
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetiles.
Succeeding in Tharsis requires you to make the best of what you have, even if it happens to be a pair of snake eyes. Certain factors may be outside of your control, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be overcome. Tharsis is not a game about facing the odds. It’s a game about changing them.
EcoGnomix
WHY THIS
Shares roguelite progression, upgrade system, whimsical and an atmospheric mood with Planetiles.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetiles.
A quirky mix of roguelite and city builder. Build a lively little city above, by looting mystical caves with a team of gnomes below! Use multiple runs to unlock upgrades and abilities to help your gnomes venture deeper into the dangerous underground.
Frequently asked about Planetiles
- Is Planetiles verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Planetiles is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Planetiles cost?
- Planetiles is listed on Steam at 2.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Planetiles?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Planetiles are Preserve, Blink Planets, Mars vs. Robots.
- Who developed Planetiles?
- Planetiles was developed by MythicOwl.
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 Planetiles.
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