Games like Planetaries
If Planetaries is your kind of game, the closest matches are Osiris: New Dawn, RuneScape: Dragonwilds and Voidtrain — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its beautiful graphics and nature, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Planetaries: Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
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Steam players who put hours into Planetaries 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.
Osiris: New Dawn
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Planetaries.
Top pick for Planetaries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planetaries.
Osiris: New Dawn is an unforgiving near future space survival game with a cinematic feel and elements of horror. Play as a Mission Specialist in single or multiplayer to build your planetary base, pilotable vehicles, and controllable drones as you explore a dangerous solar system far from Earth.
RuneScape: Dragonwilds
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Planetaries.
Second-strongest match for Planetaries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Planetaries.
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Planetaries.
Third-strongest match for Planetaries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planetaries.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Night of the Dead
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Planetaries.
Ranked #4 for Planetaries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planetaries.
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Planetaries.
Ranked #5 for Planetaries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planetaries.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Planetaries.
Ranked #6 for Planetaries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planetaries.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Dig or Die
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, base building and an immersive mood with Planetaries.
Ranked #7 for Planetaries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planetaries.
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Crashlands
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration, base building and a challenging mood with Planetaries.
Ranked #8 for Planetaries fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planetaries.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Planetaries at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Planetaries.
Priced ~50% under Planetaries on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Planetaries.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Planetaries on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Planetaries.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Planetaries on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Planetaries.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Planetaries on Steam right now. Shares Action with Planetaries.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Planetaries on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Planetaries.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Planetaries on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Planetaries.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Planetaries.
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.
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 Planetaries.
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 Planetaries.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Planetaries.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Planetaries.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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!
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planetaries.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Casual with Planetaries.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Planetaries.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Planetaries.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Planetaries.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planetaries.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Crashlands
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration, base building and a challenging mood with Planetaries.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Planetaries.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Frequently asked about Planetaries
- Does Planetaries work on Steam Deck?
- Planetaries is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Planetaries cost?
- Planetaries is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Planetaries have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Planetaries supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Planetaries?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Planetaries are Osiris: New Dawn, RuneScape: Dragonwilds, Voidtrain.
- Who developed Planetaries?
- Planetaries was developed by EY-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 Planetaries.
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