Games like LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!
If LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action! is your kind of game, the closest matches are Distant Colony, Sol Protocol and Stellar Embers: United Fleet — 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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Distant Colony
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Top pick for LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!.
Explore alien planets in sci-fi survival adventure, gather resources to craft tools, overcome environmental hazards, uncover hidden secrets, and build thriving, self-sustaining colonies with advanced technology. Prepare humanity for a new future among the stars.
Sol Protocol
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Second-strongest match for LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!.
Sol Protocol is a dynamic VR Co-Op roguelike where you team up and physically pilot a spaceship through dangerous, procedurally generated stellar systems. Manage your spaceship, man the turrets, explore abandoned stations on foot, and make strategic decisions as you push deeper into the deep space.
Stellar Embers: United Fleet
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Third-strongest match for LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!.
Stellar Embers: United Fleet is a real-time space combat game with flagship piloting, fleet command & roguelike growth. Pilot your ship, direct escorts, explore random systems, refit warships, recruit captains & build a mighty fleet via dynamic missions & co-op.
Search of Galaxy
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Ranked #4 for LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!.
After the supernova explosion, the Thermian race was destroyed. All knowledge, technologies and data about the past were lost. You must to restore civilization and explore the territories of your home system in search of lost technologies and artifacts.
VIEWPORT: The A.R.K. Protocol
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Ranked #5 for LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!.
Roguelike Space simulator with a dark-humor. Keep the ship running, the crew alive-ish, and the existential dread manageable.
Benders In Space
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Ranked #6 for LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!.
Mine the belts, colonize distant worlds, and choose your allies as three rival factions fight over a fractured frontier, then prestige through five starships and lead a joint fleet against the invading Dominion.
Wreckborn
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Ranked #7 for LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!.
Cleanse the system of pirates, destroy their bases and free the captives. On the asteroids, build a base, mining colonies, explore asteroids and extract resources needed for survival. Develop buildings, build defenses and turn the asteroid into a fortress.
Project Longshot
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Ranked #8 for LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!.
Launch from a familiar world into a 1:1 scale solar system of beautiful, unforgiving planets. Colonise, mine, and explore real places that people may walk upon within your lifetime. Project Longshot hands you a space program and asks only one question. How far can your program go?
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Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!.
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.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!.
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.
Liquidators
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!.
Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.
DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
Wheelchair Wizards
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!.
Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.
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Frequently asked about LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!
- What games are most similar to LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action! are Distant Colony, Sol Protocol, Stellar Embers: United Fleet.
- Who developed LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!?
- LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action! was developed by Cubic Pie and published by Cubic Pie Live.
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