Games like Surviving Ceres
If Surviving Ceres is your kind of game, the closest matches are RimWorld, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation and Sheltered — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and contemplative. 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 Surviving Ceres: Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Players who liked Surviving Ceres also play
Steam players who put hours into Surviving Ceres 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.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Top pick for Surviving Ceres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Surviving Ceres.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares base building, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Surviving Ceres.
Second-strongest match for Surviving Ceres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Surviving Ceres.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Sheltered
WHY THIS
Shares base building, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Surviving Ceres.
Third-strongest match for Surviving Ceres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Surviving Ceres.
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
Kenshi
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Surviving Ceres.
Ranked #4 for Surviving Ceres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Surviving Ceres.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Surviving Ceres.
Ranked #5 for Surviving Ceres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Surviving Ceres.
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.
Hammerting
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Surviving Ceres.
Ranked #6 for Surviving Ceres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Surviving Ceres.
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Surviving Ceres.
Ranked #7 for Surviving Ceres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Surviving Ceres.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Surviving Ceres.
Ranked #8 for Surviving Ceres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Surviving Ceres.
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Surviving Ceres at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Surviving Ceres on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Surviving Ceres.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Surviving Ceres on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Surviving Ceres.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Surviving Ceres on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Surviving Ceres.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Surviving Ceres on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Surviving Ceres.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Surviving Ceres on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Surviving Ceres.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Surviving Ceres on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Surviving Ceres.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Surviving Ceres on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Surviving Ceres.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Surviving Ceres on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Surviving Ceres.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Surviving Ceres.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Surviving Ceres.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Surviving Ceres.
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 Surviving Ceres.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Surviving Ceres.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Surviving Ceres.
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.
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!
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Surviving Ceres.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
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Frequently asked about Surviving Ceres
- Does Surviving Ceres run on Steam Deck?
- Surviving Ceres is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Surviving Ceres cost?
- Surviving Ceres is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Surviving Ceres?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Surviving Ceres are RimWorld, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation, Sheltered.
- Who developed Surviving Ceres?
- Surviving Ceres was developed by Ryan Saunders and published by One Man Media.
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 Surviving Ceres.
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