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Games like Moonbase Lambda

If Moonbase Lambda is your kind of game, the closest matches are Monstrum, Teleglitch: Die More Edition and Alien: Isolation — 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.

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About Moonbase Lambda: The base is silent—as if abandoned. The air feels heavy, and oxygen is running out. In the shadows, something stirs. You can hear it, but you can’t see it. Every step echoes in the darkness, every sound makes your pulse race. Survive. Escape. Before time runs out.

2025ActionIndie4.99 USDWindowsby Thunderfox Studio
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Players who liked Moonbase Lambda also play

Steam players who put hours into Moonbase Lambda 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.

  1. Monstrum

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Moonbase Lambda fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Moonbase Lambda.

    Monstrum takes the traditional survival horror formula and remixes it completely with procedurally generated levels, permadeath, and AI driven predators, ensuring that nowhere on its derelict cargo ship is ever truly safe.

    2015Indie17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Teleglitch: Die More Edition

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Moonbase Lambda fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Moonbase Lambda.

    In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.

    2013ActionIndie3.24 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Alien: Isolation

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Moonbase Lambda fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Moonbase Lambda.

    Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.

    2014Action39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Deadnaut

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Moonbase Lambda fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Moonbase Lambda.

    Deadnaut is Screwfly Studios' second game and follow up to cult hit, Zafehouse: Diaries. Deadnauts, so named because they’re unlikely to return, must explore, investigate and fight their way through the derelict ships of dead civilisations. Every mission is unique and no two locations are the same.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. The Persistence

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Moonbase Lambda fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Moonbase Lambda.

    Survive aboard a doomed deep space colony starship, overrun with horrific and murderous aberrations. Explore, evade and fight your way through the depths to bring the ship back to Earth. Gather resources, upgrade abilities and fabricate an arsenal of weapons in this sci-fi horror roguelite.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Not The Robots

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Moonbase Lambda fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Moonbase Lambda.

    You are a robot in an office building. You have to eat furniture and not get caught. A mysterious story unfolds.Not The Robots is this year’s most exciting Roguelike Stealth Furniture Eating Simulator. It’s a game with random levels, permadeath, and the goal of eating furniture - which is also your stealth cover.

    2013ActionStrategyIndie1.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Immortal Redneck

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Moonbase Lambda fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Moonbase Lambda.

    Immortal Redneck is a FPS set in Egypt with rogue-lite elements. Frantic gameplay, twitch controls and an arcade-style feel meet randomly generated dungeons, a complete skill tree, permanent death and 9 classes with different traits.

    2017ActionIndie19.95 USDSteam ↗
  8. Heavy Bullets

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Moonbase Lambda fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Moonbase Lambda.

    Heavy Bullets is a randomized FPS dungeon crawler where players make their way through a colorful maze, while protecting themselves from aggressive creatures and malfunctioning security devices. The goal lies at the end of the 8th level, where they must reset the security mainframe to restore order and reap the rewards.

    2014ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Moonbase Lambda at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Moonbase Lambda on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Moonbase Lambda.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Moonbase Lambda on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Moonbase Lambda.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Moonbase Lambda on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Moonbase Lambda.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Moonbase Lambda on Steam right now. Shares Action with Moonbase Lambda.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Moonbase Lambda on Steam right now. Shares Action with Moonbase Lambda.

    You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.

    2009Action2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Moonbase Lambda on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Moonbase Lambda.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Moonbase Lambda on Steam right now. Shares Action with Moonbase Lambda.

    Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.

    2009Action2.49 USDSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Moonbase Lambda on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Moonbase Lambda.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Moonbase Lambda.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Moonbase Lambda.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Moonbase Lambda.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Moonbase Lambda.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 Moonbase Lambda.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Moonbase Lambda.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Moonbase Lambda.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Moonbase Lambda.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Moonbase Lambda

How much does Moonbase Lambda cost?
Moonbase Lambda is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Moonbase Lambda?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Moonbase Lambda are Monstrum, Teleglitch: Die More Edition, Alien: Isolation.
Who developed Moonbase Lambda?
Moonbase Lambda was developed by Thunderfox 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 Moonbase Lambda.

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