Games like Drifter
If Drifter is your kind of game, the closest matches are Asteroid Rodeo, Interstellar Rift and Space Travellers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, cozy and relaxing. 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 Drifter: Drifter is an open-world sandbox space trading game with a procedurally-generated galaxy 100,000 light years across made up of tens of thousands of star systems to explore and features an original soundtrack by composer Danny Baranowsky.
Players who liked Drifter also play
Steam players who put hours into Drifter 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.
Asteroid Rodeo
WHY THIS
Top pick for Drifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
Asteroids are worth trillions. They're also spinning at 200 meters per second. You are a Wrangler—harpoon tumbling rocks, wrestle them to a dead stop with your custom-built ship, and mine them for credits. The pay is good. The survival rate is a conversation people avoid.
Interstellar Rift
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Drifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
Space Travellers
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Drifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
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!
Void Destroyer 2
WHY THIS
Shares ship customization with Drifter.
Ranked #4 for Drifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.
Rebel Galaxy
WHY THIS
Shares asteroid mining and a retro mood with Drifter.
Ranked #5 for Drifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.
Endless Sky
WHY THIS
Shares ship customization and a chill mood with Drifter.
Ranked #6 for Drifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.
Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Drifter.
Ranked #7 for Drifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Drifter.
Exiled to a deep space mining sector, you are left with a crappy ship, a laser, and a small mining beam. It is up to you to survive by working your way through the galaxy. Mine asteroids, refine and trade the ore, buy upgrades for your ship, hunt pirates... you get it.
Evochron Mercenary
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Drifter.
Ranked #8 for Drifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
The life of an independent mercenary is rarely without excitement. Your spacecraft awaits and your adventure begins in the Sapphire star system.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Drifter
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StarMade
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Drifter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Drifter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Drifter.
Reviewers of Drifter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Drifter.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Elite Dangerous
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Drifter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Simulation with Drifter.
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.
Endless Sky
WHY THIS
Shares ship customization and a chill mood with Drifter.
Reviewers of Drifter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.
EVE Online
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Drifter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Drifter.
Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.
Avorion
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Drifter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
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.
Galaxy on Fire 2™ Full HD
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Drifter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
A hyperdrive malfunction sends Keith T. Maxwell tumbling through space and time to fight for his life against a mysterious alien armada that is wreaking havoc.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Drifter at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Drifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Drifter.
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 ~58% under Drifter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Drifter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Drifter.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Drifter on Steam right now. Shares Action with Drifter.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Drifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Drifter.
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 ~58% under Drifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Drifter.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Drifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Drifter.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Drifter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Drifter.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Drifter.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Drifter.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Drifter.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Drifter.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Drifter
- How much does Drifter cost?
- Drifter is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Drifter?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Drifter are Asteroid Rodeo, Interstellar Rift, Space Travellers.
- Who developed Drifter?
- Drifter was developed by Celsius Game Studios.
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 Drifter.
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