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Games like Shattered Planet

If Shattered Planet is your kind of game, the closest matches are Jupiter Hell, Xenomarine and Sword of the Stars: The Pit — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging 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.

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About Shattered Planet: Explore a dangerous planet that's different every time and try to survive! The Galactic Union's job for you is clear: research the alien wildlife -- for science! However, researching may include lasers, explosions, hungry aliens, space sushi, and other similarly delicious-or-terrifying hazards.

2014StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOSby Kitfox Games
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Steam players who put hours into Shattered Planet 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. Jupiter Hell

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Shattered Planet.

    Top pick for Shattered Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shattered Planet.

    True Roguelike. Turn-based shooter. Permadeath. Tribute to the sci-fi classics of the Golden VHS era. Successor to DRL. Just you and your gun against hordes of horrors and monstrosities. Give them hell to the rhythm of heavy metal.

    2021StrategyIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Xenomarine

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Shattered Planet.

    Second-strongest match for Shattered Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shattered Planet.

    Experience hardcore, sci-fi dungeon crawling in this dark, atmospheric roguelike. Xenomarine offers tactical turn-based combat with hundreds of unique items and upgradable weapons and armor, as well as massive replayability thanks to its randomly generated content.

    2019StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Sword of the Stars: The Pit

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Shattered Planet.

    Third-strongest match for Shattered Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shattered Planet.

    A fun, fast, light-hearted, turn-based RPG, where the tradition of old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe!

    2013StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Caves of Qud

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Shattered Planet.

    Ranked #4 for Shattered Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shattered Planet.

    Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure23.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Sproggiwood

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Shattered Planet.

    Ranked #5 for Shattered Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shattered Planet.

    Bring civilization to Sproggiwood, a story-driven, turn-based roguelike set in a humorous world inspired by Finnish mythology. Grow your civilization and plunder procedural dungeons with six unique classes. Outsmart mischievous monsters who work together in unexpected ways. No two dungeon dives are alike.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Mainframe Defenders

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Shattered Planet.

    Ranked #6 for Shattered Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shattered Planet.

    MAINFRAME DEFENDERS - Turn-based tactics centered around gear and unit customization. It offers simple combat, high replayability, and tons of loot. Items don't just provide stats boost, but also offer distinct mechanics that can be combined into powerful builds.

    2020StrategyIndieRPG0.89 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. MidBoss

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Shattered Planet.

    Ranked #7 for Shattered Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shattered Planet.

    Kill your enemies, possess their bodies, and take their abilities as your own in this turn-based procedurally generated death labyrinth.

    2017StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Curse Of Yendor

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Shattered Planet.

    Ranked #8 for Shattered Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shattered Planet.

    Kill monsters, get loot, solve puzzles, complete quests! A sword and sorcery adventure where your magic shapes the world. A classical rogue-like with a modern feel. "Your nemesis has found the Amulet of Yendor... Defeat him before he ascends to godhood!"

    2017ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Shattered Planet

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Rogue Legacy

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and a contemplative mood with Shattered Planet.

    Reviewers of Shattered Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Shattered Planet.

    Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Rogue

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Shattered Planet.

    Reviewers of Shattered Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Shattered Planet.

    Experience the commercial port of the game that spawned a thousand 'Rogue-likes'. Venture into the Dungeons of Doom in search of the legendary Amulet of Yendor, and hopefully escape with your life! Randomly generated dungeons await you, full of nasty monsters, insidious traps, and glittering loot.

    2020StrategyAdventureRPG2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Shattered Planet.

    Reviewers of Shattered Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Shattered Planet.

    The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition includes Morrowind plus all of the content from the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions. The original Mod Construction Set is not included in this package. An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable.

    2009RPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Project Zomboid

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation with Shattered Planet.

    Reviewers of Shattered Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Shattered Planet.

    Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

    2013IndieSimulationRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. PAC-MAN 256

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Shattered Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    PAC-MAN 256 is the maze that never ends. But the Glitch is coming for you…

    2016Action4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. PAC-MAN WORLD Re-PAC

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Shattered Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    PAC-MAN arrives home on his birthday to find the Ghosts have kidnapped PAC-MAN’s family and ruined his party! Off to the rescue, PAC-MAN sets out to Ghost Island!

    2022ActionAdventureCasual29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shattered Planet at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Shattered Planet on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shattered Planet.

    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 ~67% under Shattered Planet on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Shattered Planet.

    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. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Shattered Planet on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shattered Planet.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Shattered Planet on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Shattered Planet.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Shattered Planet on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shattered Planet.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Shattered Planet on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shattered Planet.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Shattered Planet on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shattered Planet.

    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 ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Shattered Planet on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shattered Planet.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shattered Planet.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Shattered Planet.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shattered Planet.

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shattered Planet.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shattered Planet.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Shattered Planet.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Shattered Planet.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Kitfox Games

Other recommendable Steam games by Kitfox Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Moon Hunters

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Shattered Planet.

    Another title from Kitfox Games, the studio behind Shattered Planet. Shares Indie and RPG with Shattered Planet.

    Play alone or with friends! A co-op personality test about exploring an ancient, occult world in 5 days. How will you be remembered?

    2016IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Boyfriend Dungeon

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Shattered Planet.

    Another title from Kitfox Games, the studio behind Shattered Planet. Shares Indie and RPG with Shattered Planet.

    Date your weapons! Romance swords, daggers, and polearms to level them up in this “shack-and-slash” dungeon crawling adventure.

    2021IndieSimulationRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Lucifer Within Us

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Shattered Planet.

    Another title from Kitfox Games, the studio behind Shattered Planet. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shattered Planet.

    Solve 3 increasingly intricate murders by examining the evidence -- find the motive, the means, and the opportunity. Use testimonies of the suspects as evidence by examining every detail for contradictions... and signs of sin. Purify the possessed. Purge the daemons.

    2020StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Shattered Planet

Does Shattered Planet run on Steam Deck?
Shattered Planet 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 Shattered Planet cost?
Shattered Planet is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Shattered Planet?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shattered Planet are Jupiter Hell, Xenomarine, Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Who developed Shattered Planet?
Shattered Planet was developed by Kitfox 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 Shattered Planet.

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