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Games like Space Sprouts

If Space Sprouts is your kind of game, the closest matches are Iron Diamond, Kuzo and Billy Saves the World — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, cozy and lighthearted. 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 Space Sprouts: Launch into a chaotic spaceship adventure: bend the rules of physics, experiment with unusual gadgets and toss everything around. With each journey, you will have limited time to reveal the mysteries aboard your solar punk spaceship - how much will you discover before you arrive home?

2025IndieAdventureSimulationCasual10.99 USDWindows · macOSby Schleuder Games
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Steam players who put hours into Space Sprouts 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. Iron Diamond

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Space Sprouts.

    Top pick for Space Sprouts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Sprouts.

    Explore the mysterious island of Kindara in this vibrant 2D action-adventure. Fight and platform your way through jungles, icy peaks, castles, and crystal caverns in a non-linear interconnected world. Adventure awaits!

    2024IndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Kuzo

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Space Sprouts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Sprouts.

    Explore an overgrown landscape of magic as you create your own platforms and shape your path through the world. Discover the history of a forgotten planet, collect relics to awaken your abilities, and create the very terrain you traverse.

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Billy Saves the World

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Space Sprouts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Sprouts.

    Run & rocket boost your way across an open alien world, complete quests for locals, and save the world in this sci-fi cartoon epic!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Orbitect

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Space Sprouts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Space Sprouts.

    Space debris is out of control! Craft a station to take out the trash in this construction roguelite mashup.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Mindcop

    WHY THIS

    Shares time management and an atmospheric mood with Space Sprouts.

    Ranked #5 for Space Sprouts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Sprouts.

    Mindcop is a non-linear „whodunnit“ detective game. It mixes a story driven adventure with real-time puzzle gaming. As the infamous Mindcop, you can dive into the minds of your suspects to uncover their secrets and unravel their lies.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Package Inspector

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Space Sprouts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Sprouts.

    Plunge into the dystopian land of Taxien and check packages at the local customs office! Which packages need to be sorted out? Which ones support the rebels and which ones support the state? Which side will you choose? And will you earn enough to pay your useless taxes?

    2022IndieAdventureSimulation11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Songbringer

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Space Sprouts.

    Ranked #7 for Space Sprouts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Sprouts.

    Imagine if the original Zelda game was set in a science-fiction galaxy. Explore this open-world, action RPG with roguelike and metroidvania elements. Mighty bosses lurk deep within procedurally-generated dungeons. Wield, vanquish, unearth, collect, craft, progress, trip, adventure.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. PULSAR: Lost Colony

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Space Sprouts.

    Ranked #8 for Space Sprouts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Sprouts.

    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

    2021ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Space Sprouts

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. Scribblenauts Unlimited

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and a lighthearted mood with Space Sprouts.

    Reviewers of Space Sprouts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Casual with Space Sprouts.

    The best-selling, award-winning franchise is back – on your home PC in gorgeous HD for the first time.

    2012StrategyAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Outer Wilds

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Space Sprouts.

    Reviewers of Space Sprouts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Space Sprouts.

    Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

    2020ActionAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Metroidvania Maker

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Space Sprouts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Sprouts.

    Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Space Sprouts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Space Sprouts.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Space Sprouts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Space Sprouts.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under Space Sprouts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Space Sprouts.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Space Sprouts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Space Sprouts.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Space Sprouts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Space Sprouts.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~91% under Space Sprouts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Sprouts.

    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 ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~73% under Space Sprouts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Space Sprouts.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. OneShot

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~45% under Space Sprouts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Sprouts.

    OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.

    2016IndieAdventureCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Space Sprouts.

    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 ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 Space Sprouts.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Billy Saves the World

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Sprouts.

    Run & rocket boost your way across an open alien world, complete quests for locals, and save the world in this sci-fi cartoon epic!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Mindcop

    WHY THIS

    Shares time management and an atmospheric mood with Space Sprouts.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Sprouts.

    Mindcop is a non-linear „whodunnit“ detective game. It mixes a story driven adventure with real-time puzzle gaming. As the infamous Mindcop, you can dive into the minds of your suspects to uncover their secrets and unravel their lies.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Songbringer

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Space Sprouts.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Sprouts.

    Imagine if the original Zelda game was set in a science-fiction galaxy. Explore this open-world, action RPG with roguelike and metroidvania elements. Mighty bosses lurk deep within procedurally-generated dungeons. Wield, vanquish, unearth, collect, craft, progress, trip, adventure.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Space Sprouts

How much does Space Sprouts cost?
Space Sprouts is listed on Steam at 10.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Space Sprouts?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Space Sprouts are Iron Diamond, Kuzo, Billy Saves the World.
Who developed Space Sprouts?
Space Sprouts was developed by Schleuder Games.

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 Space Sprouts.

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