Games like Project AURA
If Project AURA is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cliff Empire, Rise of Industry and Anno 2070™ — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Project AURA: Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.
Players who liked Project AURA also play
Steam players who put hours into Project AURA 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.
Cliff Empire
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Project AURA.
Top pick for Project AURA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Project AURA.
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Rise of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Project AURA.
Second-strongest match for Project AURA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Project AURA.
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Anno 2070™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Project AURA.
Third-strongest match for Project AURA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Project AURA.
Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Project AURA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Project AURA.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
Anno 2205™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Project AURA.
Ranked #5 for Project AURA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project AURA.
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.
Jurassic World Evolution 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Project AURA.
Ranked #6 for Project AURA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project AURA.
Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation.
Planetbase
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Project AURA.
Ranked #7 for Project AURA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Project AURA.
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Land of the Vikings
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Project AURA.
Ranked #8 for Project AURA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Project AURA.
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Project AURA at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Project AURA on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project AURA.
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 Project AURA on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Project AURA.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Project AURA on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Project AURA.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Project AURA on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Project AURA.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Project AURA on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Project AURA.
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 Project AURA on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Project AURA.
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 Project AURA on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Project AURA.
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 ~67% under Project AURA on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Project AURA.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Project AURA.
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 Project AURA.
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 Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project AURA.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Project AURA.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Project AURA.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project AURA.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project AURA.
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!
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Frequently asked about Project AURA
- Does Project AURA work on Steam Deck?
- Project AURA is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Project AURA cost?
- Project AURA is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Project AURA?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Project AURA are Cliff Empire, Rise of Industry, Anno 2070™.
- Who developed Project AURA?
- Project AURA was developed by Nexcentric 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 Project AURA.
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