Games like Deep Space Directive
If Deep Space Directive is your kind of game, the closest matches are Captain of Industry, Pioneers of Pagonia and Blacksmith Master — 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 Deep Space Directive: Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Players who liked Deep Space Directive also play
Steam players who put hours into Deep Space Directive 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.
Captain of Industry
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Top pick for Deep Space Directive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Directive.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Pioneers of Pagonia
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Deep Space Directive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Deep Space Directive.
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Blacksmith Master
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Deep Space Directive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Deep Space Directive.
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Deep Space Directive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Directive.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
RimWorld
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Ranked #5 for Deep Space Directive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Directive.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
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Ranked #6 for Deep Space Directive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Directive.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Against the Storm
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Ranked #7 for Deep Space Directive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Deep Space Directive.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Foundation
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Ranked #8 for Deep Space Directive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Directive.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Deep Space Directive at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Deep Space Directive on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Deep Space Directive.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Deep Space Directive on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Deep Space Directive.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Deep Space Directive on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Directive.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Deep Space Directive on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Directive.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~55% under Deep Space Directive on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Deep Space Directive.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~91% under Deep Space Directive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deep Space Directive.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Deep Space Directive on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Deep Space Directive.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~73% under Deep Space Directive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deep Space Directive.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deep Space Directive.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deep Space Directive.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Deep Space Directive.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Directive.
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.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Space Directive.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
AdVenture Capitalist
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Deep Space Directive.
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
Supermarket Together
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Deep Space Directive.
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.
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.
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Frequently asked about Deep Space Directive
- How much does Deep Space Directive cost?
- Deep Space Directive is listed on Steam at 10.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Deep Space Directive?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deep Space Directive are Captain of Industry, Pioneers of Pagonia, Blacksmith Master.
- Who developed Deep Space Directive?
- Deep Space Directive was developed by One Wheel Studio.
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 Deep Space Directive.
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