Games like PROT
If PROT is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Alters, JETT: The Far Shore + Given Time and Little Astronaut — 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.
Get personalized picks →About PROT: PROT is a unique sci-fi sandbox adventure. You are PROT, a little lost dustbin-shaped robot. Use your creativity and problem-solving skills to collect, recycle, and fabricate tools and build a rocket. Your family is scattered across the solar system and needs your help.
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Steam players who put hours into PROT 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.
The Alters
WHY THIS
Top pick for PROT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with PROT.
Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.
JETT: The Far Shore + Given Time
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for PROT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with PROT.
Embark on an interstellar trip and deploy to a mythic ocean planet in a low-flying jett in this cinematic science fiction action adventure with immersive sim elements from Superbrothers, known for Sword & Sworcery EP.
Little Astronaut
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for PROT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with PROT.
Explore the silent Virelia Research Station in this atmospheric sci-fi puzzle adventure. Restore forgotten systems, solve environmental puzzles, and uncover what changed the abandoned station through documents and exploration.
Rover's Tale
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for PROT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with PROT.
A creature-collecting metroidvania, in a world where dogs live on forever amongst the stars as Space Rovers! Become a LAIKA Rover! Catch & research creatures, then use their abilities to explore a new frontier! Upgrade & customize, as you help your canine companions to unravel an ancient mystery!
Captain Forever Trilogy
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Ranked #5 for PROT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Millions of players worldwide have flown, built, and fought their way through Captain Forever. CF Trilogy brings Captains Forever, Successor, and Impostor to Steam with a beautiful new renderer, new modules, and a reimagined world written by acclaimed novelist Cassandra Khaw.
InfraSpace
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Ranked #6 for PROT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with PROT.
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.
Spaceflight Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for PROT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with PROT.
In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.
Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for PROT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with PROT.
Lovely adventuring RPG series. Casual, story-driven journey and quests. Your city is suffering from the attack of unknown monsters. You must save your people and become a heroic princess.
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 Adventure with PROT.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with PROT.
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 and Adventure with PROT.
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 PROT.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with PROT.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with PROT.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with PROT.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with PROT.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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Frequently asked about PROT
- What games are most similar to PROT?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside PROT are The Alters, JETT: The Far Shore + Given Time, Little Astronaut.
- Who developed PROT?
- PROT was developed by Ginger Crab Games.
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 PROT.
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