Games like Shallow Space
If Shallow Space is your kind of game, the closest matches are TerrApocalipse, Near Sol and Foundation: Galactic Frontier — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its ambitious open world pivot, community focused development and elevation based combat. 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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TerrApocalipse
WHY THIS
Top pick for Shallow Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Shallow Space.
TerrApocalipse is an indie space action strategy with RPG elements, set in our solar system under siege by a mysterious, overwhelming force. Soon as the vast void between planets will be filled with conflict your decisions will shape the fate of Terra and beyond.
Near Sol
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shallow Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shallow Space.
Space 4X game with the ability to build factories, extract resources, with characters, internal and external markets ... Take part in the discussion of the game, share your vision)
Foundation: Galactic Frontier
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shallow Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shallow Space.
Command Asimov's OFFICIAL Foundation universe! Live the life as an interstellar trader to exploit your trade routes! Build your starship home, crush enemies in explosive shootouts & outsmart rivals with fleet strategies in epic space wars - with new content expanding your saga!
Gods and Idols
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shallow Space.
Ranked #4 for Shallow Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shallow Space.
Take the role of a newly ascended deity in Gods and Idols. Carve your place among the stars in an open, dynamic, and massive MMORTS universe. Command the powers of the cosmos, form alliances, and use your worshipers as instruments to further your goals.
Void Destroyer 2
WHY THIS
Shares ship customization and an atmospheric mood with Shallow Space.
Ranked #5 for Shallow Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Shallow Space.
Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.
Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Shallow Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shallow Space.
Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.
Anno 2205™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shallow Space.
Ranked #7 for Shallow Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shallow Space.
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
Distant Worlds: Universe
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Shallow Space fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shallow Space.
Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Shallow Space
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Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shallow Space.
Reviewers of Shallow Space cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shallow Space.
Ambitious megacorporations monopolize the conquest of space and the colonization of the solar system. At the very edge of the solar system, the companies make a discovery that will shift the technological advantage and upset the balance. And so a new conflict is born: "The Jupiter Incident."
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shallow Space.
Reviewers of Shallow Space cross-mention this title as a similar play.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Homeworld 3
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Shallow Space cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shallow Space.
Tactical, beautiful, and wholly unique, the GOTY-winning sci-fi RTS returns with Homeworld 3. Assume control and battle through fleet combat in dazzling, fully 3D space while the award-winning story unfolds on a galactic scale.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shallow Space at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Shallow Space on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Shallow Space.
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 ~67% under Shallow Space on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Shallow Space.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Shallow Space on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Shallow Space.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shallow Space on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Shallow Space.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Shallow Space on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Shallow Space.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Shallow Space on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Shallow Space.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Shallow Space on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shallow Space.
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.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Shallow Space on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Shallow Space.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Shallow Space.
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.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with Shallow Space.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Shallow Space.
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.
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Shallow Space.
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ is a free-to-play MMORPG that puts you at the center of your own story-driven saga. Play as a Jedi, Sith, Bounty Hunter, or one of many other iconic STAR WARS roles in the galaxy far, far away over three thousand years before the classic films.
Crusader Kings II
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shallow Space.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
PlanetSide 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.
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Frequently asked about Shallow Space
- How much does Shallow Space cost?
- Shallow Space is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shallow Space?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shallow Space are TerrApocalipse, Near Sol, Foundation: Galactic Frontier.
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 Shallow Space.
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