Games like Imagine Earth
If Imagine Earth is your kind of game, the closest matches are Factory Town, Synergy and InfraSpace — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its controller friendly design, corporate espionage and sabotage and environmental impact mechanics. 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 Imagine Earth: Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Players who liked Imagine Earth also play
Steam players who put hours into Imagine Earth 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.
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Imagine Earth.
Top pick for Imagine Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Imagine Earth.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Synergy
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Imagine Earth.
Second-strongest match for Imagine Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Imagine Earth.
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
InfraSpace
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Imagine Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Imagine Earth.
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Imagine Earth.
Ranked #4 for Imagine Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Imagine Earth.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Cliff Empire
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Imagine Earth.
Ranked #5 for Imagine Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Imagine Earth.
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Imagine Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Imagine Earth.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Endzone 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Imagine Earth.
Ranked #7 for Imagine Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imagine Earth.
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Imagine Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Imagine Earth.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Imagine Earth
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Offworld Trading Company
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Imagine Earth.
Reviewers of Imagine Earth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Imagine Earth.
Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.
Spacebase Startopia
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Imagine Earth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imagine Earth.
Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and a good dose of humor.
Stellaris
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Imagine Earth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imagine Earth.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
Distant Worlds 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Imagine Earth.
Reviewers of Imagine Earth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imagine Earth.
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Croak Crusader: Spawn of the Spore Spectre
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Imagine Earth.
Reviewers of Imagine Earth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Imagine Earth.
Embark on an odyssey into the unknown! Behold the tale of Toadman, an enigmatic being born from alien tech and the mysteries of Radiant Verde. Witness his perilous quest through treacherous jungles to confront Captain Croak in an epic showdown! Welcome to "Spawn of the Spore Spectre"!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Imagine Earth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Imagine Earth.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Power the Future
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Imagine Earth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Imagine Earth.
Power the Future is a strategy game that allows you to take control of Germany, the USA, China, India, Australia, Japan or the UK. Develop and deploy technology and lead your country into the future. Compete to be the World Leader or focus on three other possible Victory Paths for each country.
Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Imagine Earth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imagine Earth.
Rise of Nations is back! Play the updated classic with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Imagine Earth at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Imagine Earth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Imagine Earth.
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 ~60% under Imagine Earth on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Imagine Earth.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Imagine Earth on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Imagine Earth.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Imagine Earth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Imagine Earth.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Imagine Earth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Imagine Earth.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Imagine Earth on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Imagine Earth.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Imagine Earth.
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!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Imagine Earth.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
South Scrimshaw, Part One
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Imagine Earth.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Imagine Earth.
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.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Imagine Earth.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
SCP – Containment Breach
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Imagine Earth.
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Imagine Earth.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
AdVenture Capitalist
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Imagine Earth.
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
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Frequently asked about Imagine Earth
- Is Imagine Earth verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Imagine Earth is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Imagine Earth cost?
- Imagine Earth is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Imagine Earth?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Imagine Earth are Factory Town, Synergy, InfraSpace.
- Who developed Imagine Earth?
- Imagine Earth was developed by Serious Bros..
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