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Games like No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape

If No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape is your kind of game, the closest matches are Galactic Crew, Surviving Mars and Space Haven — picked from the ranked list below. 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 No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape: As the brave crew sets course for the Red Planet, their mission takes a terrifying turn. In the vast emptiness of space, their once-proud vessel becomes a haunted nightmare. Can they survive the horrors that await them in the darkness and escape or will they succumb before completing their mission?

2025ActionStrategyAdventureSimulation9.99 USDWindowsby GameEraStudios
No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape — Steam game cover

Players who liked No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape also play

Steam players who put hours into No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape 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. Galactic Crew

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    Galactic Crew II is a roguelike space exploration game inspired by FTL and the classic XCOM games. You and your valorous crew members will explore a galaxy with all its dangers and riches. Explore and colonize planets, customize your spaceship, raid underground dungeons, mine, trade and craft!

    2019ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  2. Surviving Mars

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.

    2018StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  3. Space Haven

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Surviving Ceres

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    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.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    Hyperjump into the dark recesses of space with Genesis Alpha One - a roguelike FPS where you must build, maintain and navigate your ship through a galaxy filled with hostile alien and human threats. Explore, create and survive the militarized space race in order to secure humanity’s future.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Stardeus

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation20.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation4.79 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    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 ~50% under No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape on Steam right now. Shares Action with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    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. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape on Steam right now. Shares Action with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    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. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    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 ↗
  6. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    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.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape on Steam right now. Shares Action and Simulation with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    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. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape on Steam right now. Shares Action with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    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.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    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!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!

    2021ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    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.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. SCP – Containment Breach

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    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?

    2026ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Dota 2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.

    2013ActionStrategyFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Unturned

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

    You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.

    2017ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape

How much does No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape cost?
No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape are Galactic Crew, Surviving Mars, Space Haven.
Who developed No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape?
No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape was developed by GameEraStudios.

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 No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape.

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