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- $24.99 (Price checked Nov 6)
- Deck Verified
- 2019
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- Released: 2016
- Developer: Refactored Games
- Price: $16.99checked Oct 31
- 51% of 134 reviews
- Genres: Strategy, Indie, Simulation
- Platforms: Windows
Players highlight
- Frontier storytelling with hard sci fi themes
- Rugged back to basics tone
- Settlers make organic flawed decisions
- Atmospheric
- Bleak
- Challenging
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About Unclaimed World
The closest matches to Unclaimed World: Oxygen Not Included, Aven Colony, Planetbase, RimWorld, and Surviving Mars. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Unclaimed World is your kind of game, the closest matches are Oxygen Not Included, Aven Colony and Planetbase — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, bleak and challenging, and single out its combat and defense and crafting and trade. 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.
About Unclaimed World: Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim. Centuries after planetfall, colonists are still struggling to gain foothold on their lush and alien planet. You settle on the frontier by carefully managing resources, production and different personalities.
Is Unclaimed World worth buying?
Players are split
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 51% of 134 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- Price: $16.99 (checked Nov 7).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 8 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics had played a median of 10 h before their negative review.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Frontier storytelling with hard sci fi themes
- Rugged back to basics tone
- Settlers make organic flawed decisions
- Steep survival realism with deep crafting
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“I played this game quite a few hours, it's deep and unique and beautiful. But in the end it just bugs out. The AI is terrible, and since this is a simulation where you only set boundaries and give general orders, and the AI then has to…”
“This is a strange game. The gameplay is fine, the graphics are fine, the GUI _by itself_ is fine... but the type of GUI just doesn't work for this type of game. You are playing some pioneering colonists, so the gameplay and it's production…”
People who play it also play: Oxygen Not Included, Aven Colony, Planetbase
Frequently asked about Unclaimed World
Can I run it?
How much does Unclaimed World cost?
Unclaimed World is listed on Steam at 16.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Unclaimed World?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Unclaimed World are Oxygen Not Included, Aven Colony, Planetbase.
Who developed Unclaimed World?
Unclaimed World was developed by Refactored Games.