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Games like Interplanetary

If Interplanetary is your kind of game, the closest matches are ENDLESS™ Space - Definitive Edition, Pandora: First Contact and ENDLESS™ Legend — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and epic. 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 Interplanetary: In this turn-based strategy game, players wage interplanetary wars by developing their home planets and firing massive artilleries through the unpredictable gravity fields of the planetary system.

2015StrategyIndieDeck PlayableWindows · macOS · Linuxby Team Jolly Roger
Interplanetary — Steam game cover
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Enhanced edition significantly improves the experienceLong form multiplayer sessions with friends are unforgettablePhysics driven orbital warfare feels uniquely satisfyingChallengingContemplativeEpic

Players who liked Interplanetary also play

Steam players who put hours into Interplanetary 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. ENDLESS™ Space - Definitive Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management with Interplanetary.

    Top pick for Interplanetary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Interplanetary.

    ENDLESS™ Space is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS™ Universe, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.

    2012Strategy9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Pandora: First Contact

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Interplanetary.

    Second-strongest match for Interplanetary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Interplanetary.

    Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale. Our Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain. Finally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world.

    2014StrategySimulation29.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. ENDLESS™ Legend

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Interplanetary.

    Third-strongest match for Interplanetary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Interplanetary.

    ENDLESS™ Legend is a 4X turn-based fantasy strategy game by the creators of ENDLESS™ Space and Dungeon of the ENDLESS™. Control every aspect of your civilization as you struggle to save your homeworld Auriga. Create your own Legend!

    2014StrategyRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Interplanetary.

    Ranked #4 for Interplanetary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Interplanetary.

    In this turn-based strategic artillery game, players wage interplanetary wars by developing their home planets and firing massive barrages through the unpredictable gravity fields of the solar system.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Stars in Shadow

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Interplanetary.

    Ranked #5 for Interplanetary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Interplanetary.

    Stars in Shadow is a turn-based 4X strategy game and a vivid tribute to the genre classics. Compete with alien factions to explore and colonize nearby starsystems, build fleets to defend against rivals, negotiate or conquer them. Win by unifying the galaxy, through diplomacy or force.

    2017StrategyIndie4.49 USDSteam ↗
  6. Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Interplanetary.

    Ranked #6 for Interplanetary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Interplanetary.

    Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War brings you to a world of terror and violence. Four factions will engage in a brutal war for dominance over the planet’s resources. In the first turn-based 4X strategy game set in Warhammer 40,000 you will lead one of four unique factions.

    2018Strategy39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Last Federation

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Interplanetary.

    Ranked #7 for Interplanetary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Interplanetary.

    From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Interplanetary.

    Ranked #8 for Interplanetary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Interplanetary.

    Get the complete GalCiv II saga including Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, the expansion pack Dark Avatar, and the newest expansion pack Twilight of the Arnor!

    2011StrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Interplanetary

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Worbital

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a whimsical mood with Interplanetary.

    Reviewers of Interplanetary cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Interplanetary.

    With the shifting gravity on your side, aim your cannons, blast your enemies and enjoy the fireworks. Worbital is a real-time strategic artillery game in space, peppered with a heavy dose of cosmic chaos. The goal: be the last civilization standing!

    2019ActionStrategyIndie12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. DEFCON

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Interplanetary cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Interplanetary.

    Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare.

    2006StrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Risk

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Interplanetary cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Interplanetary.

    Draft! Attack! Fortify! Play the original game of strategy and world domination — now for your PC. Enjoy the classic look and fun of RISK in an exciting new interactive experience. Play two ways as you strategize over the map and set out to conquer the world.

    2013StrategyCasualSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

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

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

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

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  4. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

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

    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!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Die in the Dungeon: Origins

    WHY THIS

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

    Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!

    2023StrategyIndieRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

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

    Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. SCP: Secret Laboratory

    WHY THIS

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

    Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.

    2017ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Splitgate

    WHY THIS

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

    Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.

    2019ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

More from Team Jolly Roger

Other recommendable Steam games by Team Jolly Roger, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Interplanetary.

    Another title from Team Jolly Roger, the studio behind Interplanetary. Shares Strategy and Indie with Interplanetary.

    In this turn-based strategic artillery game, players wage interplanetary wars by developing their home planets and firing massive barrages through the unpredictable gravity fields of the solar system.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Worbital

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a whimsical mood with Interplanetary.

    Another title from Team Jolly Roger, the studio behind Interplanetary. Shares Strategy and Indie with Interplanetary.

    With the shifting gravity on your side, aim your cannons, blast your enemies and enjoy the fireworks. Worbital is a real-time strategic artillery game in space, peppered with a heavy dose of cosmic chaos. The goal: be the last civilization standing!

    2019ActionStrategyIndie12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Mushroom Crusher Extreme

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Interplanetary.

    Another title from Team Jolly Roger, the studio behind Interplanetary. Shares Indie with Interplanetary.

    Mushroom Crusher Extreme is a retro-styled arcade-action game, that throws you right in the heart of a giant Shroom invasion. Fight off the vicious fungi with elemental magic and save the day, before it’s too late.

    2019ActionIndie7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Interplanetary

Does Interplanetary run on Steam Deck?
Interplanetary is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
Does Interplanetary have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Interplanetary supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer).
What games are most similar to Interplanetary?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Interplanetary are ENDLESS™ Space - Definitive Edition, Pandora: First Contact, ENDLESS™ Legend.
Who developed Interplanetary?
Interplanetary was developed by Team Jolly Roger and published by Team17 Digital Ltd.

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