Games like PULSAR: Lost Colony
If PULSAR: Lost Colony is your kind of game, the closest matches are Avorion, Remnant Protocol and Jump Space — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its crew roles matter deeply, exploration feels emergent and atmospheric. 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 →PULSAR: Lost Colony is a co-op space simulation released in 2021 by Leafy Games, available for $19.99. Players take on specialized roles aboard a spaceship, coordinating systems like piloting, power management, and weapons to explore procedurally generated sectors. The game features physics-based combat, planetary exploration, NPC crew members with autonomous behavior, and dynamic events including hacking and sabotage. Reviewers describe the atmosphere as immersive and epic, with players highlighting how crew roles matter deeply and how NPCs react dynamically to damage states. Exploration feels emergent rather than scripted, and players note the title remains accessible without mandatory combat. The game runs as playable on Steam Deck and holds a 90% positive rating from over 3,700 Steam reviews.
About PULSAR: Lost Colony: The co-op open-world space sim where everyone has a role! Pilot the ship. Reroute power. Launch nukes. Explore alien planets. Research new talents. Work together to find the Lost Colony! ...or just deliver some biscuits
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Avorion
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Shares an atmospheric mood with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Top pick for PULSAR: Lost Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
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.
Remnant Protocol
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Second-strongest match for PULSAR: Lost Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
The assassination of the Blessed Mother has plunged the galaxy in darkness. Usurpers rule with absolute authority, and blood flows in rivers of red across the stars. Only the Protocol can restore Her light.
Jump Space
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Third-strongest match for PULSAR: Lost Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Jump Space (formerly Jump Ship) is a mission based co-op PvE for 1-4 players, where you are the crew of a spaceship. Transition seamlessly from crewing the ship to on-foot exploration and space walks. Explore, upgrade, and survive intense encounters in deep space together.
Nomad Station
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Ranked #4 for PULSAR: Lost Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Become a master MI6 saboteur, and earn your name as the ministry's most important asset on the Moon in this 1st-person shooter VR sci-fi epic! Follow the orders of your handler, or explore and find new weapons and defenses! Do whatever it takes to complete your mission!
Expedition Astra
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Ranked #5 for PULSAR: Lost Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Old machines guard silent asteroid sites across the outer solar system. Pilot a 6DoF spacecraft, fight around the rock, dock with old vessels, and touch the asteroid to extract rare materials.
Odyssey: The Deep Space Expedition
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Ranked #6 for PULSAR: Lost Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Odyssey is a story-driven space adventure for solo and multiplayer. Search for a new home for humanity while protecting your exploration ship. Scientists onboard carry Earth's last hope—its biodiversity. The fate of life itself is in your hands.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Ranked #7 for PULSAR: Lost Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Elite Dangerous
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Shares an atmospheric mood with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Ranked #8 for PULSAR: Lost Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
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Starfield
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Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Reviewers of PULSAR: Lost Colony cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.
Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition
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Shares resource management and an immersive mood with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Reviewers of PULSAR: Lost Colony cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Hyperjump into the dark recesses of space with Genesis Alpha One - a roguelike FPS where you must build, maintain and navigate your ship through a galaxy filled with hostile alien and human threats. Explore, create and survive the militarized space race in order to secure humanity’s future.
Star Trek™: Bridge Crew
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Shares an atmospheric mood with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Reviewers of PULSAR: Lost Colony cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and RPG with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Star Trek™: Bridge Crew, playable in both VR and non-VR, will immerse you in the Star Trek universe. In co-op, form a crew of four players to serve in the roles of Captain, Helm, Tactical or Engineer. Make strategic decisions and coordinate actions with your crew.
Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator
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Shares an atmospheric mood with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Reviewers of PULSAR: Lost Colony cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Artemis is designed for anyone who watched Star Trek and dreamed of what it would be like to sit on the bridge of a star ship. Artemis simulates a spaceship bridge by networking several computers together. You cannot play Artemis single-player!
Starfish Simulator 👍
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Reviewers of PULSAR: Lost Colony cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Game characters come in all shapes and sizes. They can be brave knights, brilliant scientists, or superheroes who save entire worlds. This game offers a more unusual experience. Here you can become a starfish.
Void Crew
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Shares an atmospheric mood with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Reviewers of PULSAR: Lost Colony cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Void Crew is a Chaotic, Co-op Roguelite game for 1 to 6 players: Outfit your spaceship and crew for thrilling quests, brave fierce enemies in Space Battles... and try not to panic!
Quintet
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Shares an atmospheric mood with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Reviewers of PULSAR: Lost Colony cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
A cooperative, cross-platform, multiplayer scifi game where players control the same ship through 5 roles — Captain, Helm, Tactical, Engineering & Science. Battle with other player crews over the Internet.
htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary
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Shares an atmospheric mood with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Reviewers of PULSAR: Lost Colony cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
In the depths of a labyrinthine ruin, a young girl named Mion rises from a deep sleep. Lost, alone, and with no memory of how she got here or where her parents are, she is greeted by two fireflies—one composed entirely of light, and another who lurks among the shadows.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below PULSAR: Lost Colony at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under PULSAR: Lost Colony on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
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
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Priced ~50% under PULSAR: Lost Colony on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~50% under PULSAR: Lost Colony on Steam right now. Shares Action with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under PULSAR: Lost Colony on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under PULSAR: Lost Colony on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
The Lab
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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!
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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Idols of Ash
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Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Another title from Leafy Games, the studio behind PULSAR: Lost Colony. Shares Indie and Adventure with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Grapple, clamber and fall thousands of meters down into a dark and ancient place in this first-person horror climbing game. You are being hunted.
WYRMHALL: Brush and Banter
WHY THIS
Another title from Leafy Games, the studio behind PULSAR: Lost Colony. Shares Indie with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Meet quirky characters and clean strange artifacts in this short cozy comedy game. From an enchanted teacup to a cursed skull with a chip on its shoulder, each item and client brings new twists and surprises.
wizbuilder!
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Another title from Leafy Games, the studio behind PULSAR: Lost Colony. Shares Indie with PULSAR: Lost Colony.
Build your very own wizard and then learn their story!
Frequently asked about PULSAR: Lost Colony
- Does PULSAR: Lost Colony run on Steam Deck?
- PULSAR: Lost Colony is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does PULSAR: Lost Colony cost?
- PULSAR: Lost Colony is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does PULSAR: Lost Colony have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — PULSAR: Lost Colony supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to PULSAR: Lost Colony?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside PULSAR: Lost Colony are Avorion, Remnant Protocol, Jump Space.
- Who developed PULSAR: Lost Colony?
- PULSAR: Lost Colony was developed by Leafy Games.
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