Games like Cosmic Outpost
If Cosmic Outpost is your kind of game, the closest matches are Alamet: Interstellar Wars, Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy and Starport Delta — 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 Cosmic Outpost: Cosmic Outpost is a turn-based strategy game where you build an outpost on a new planet. As pioneers, you will construct an outpost while defending against enemies. Gather enough materials to build a spaceship to explore new worlds and expand humanity's frontiers!
Players who liked Cosmic Outpost also play
Steam players who put hours into Cosmic Outpost 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.
Alamet: Interstellar Wars
WHY THIS
Top pick for Cosmic Outpost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cosmic Outpost.
Build your star system. Arm nine planets. Then raid real commanders while they sleep — and watch them raid you back. Asynchronous 1v1 base battles, clan wars, and a loot economy where your ore is never safe.
Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cosmic Outpost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cosmic Outpost.
Take command of Naval Strike Group 7 and lead your fleet to victory in full 3D tactical space combat. Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is a sci-fi strategy saga that will test your skills as both capital assault ship Captain and naval fleet Commander.
Starport Delta
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cosmic Outpost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cosmic Outpost.
Build amongst the stars in Starport Delta, a light sci-fi strategy game that focuses on survival. Station Commanders across the universe will turn to you for guidance to expand, defend, and survive. Help them build a thriving station, but watch out, there are many dangers hiding in space...
Planetiles
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cosmic Outpost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cosmic Outpost.
Dive into Planetiles, where strategy and creativity converge. Build and transform barren planets into flourishing worlds. Outwit natural disasters, develop vibrant habitats, and navigate complex challenges. Embrace a boardgame-like depth with thoughtful planning and strategic decision-making.
Xenonauts
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Cosmic Outpost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cosmic Outpost.
Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.
The Universim
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Cosmic Outpost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cosmic Outpost.
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
Aven Colony
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Cosmic Outpost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cosmic Outpost.
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cosmic Outpost at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cosmic Outpost on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cosmic Outpost.
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 Cosmic Outpost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cosmic Outpost.
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 Cosmic Outpost on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cosmic Outpost.
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 Cosmic Outpost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cosmic Outpost.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Cosmic Outpost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cosmic Outpost.
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 Cosmic Outpost on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Cosmic Outpost.
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 Cosmic Outpost on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cosmic Outpost.
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 Cosmic Outpost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cosmic Outpost.
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 Cosmic Outpost.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cosmic Outpost.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cosmic Outpost.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cosmic Outpost.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cosmic Outpost.
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 Cosmic Outpost.
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!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cosmic Outpost.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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Frequently asked about Cosmic Outpost
- How much does Cosmic Outpost cost?
- Cosmic Outpost is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cosmic Outpost?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cosmic Outpost are Alamet: Interstellar Wars, Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy, Starport Delta.
- Who developed Cosmic Outpost?
- Cosmic Outpost was developed by Gökdeniz Yılmaz.
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 Cosmic Outpost.
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