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Games like Order: The New Dawn

If Order: The New Dawn is your kind of game, the closest matches are Starship Colony, Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville and Space Haven — 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.

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About Order: The New Dawn: Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?

2026StrategyIndieSimulationRPGWindowsby Outer Space Workshop
Order: The New Dawn — Steam game cover

Players who liked Order: The New Dawn also play

Steam players who put hours into Order: The New Dawn 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. Starship Colony

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Order: The New Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Order: The New Dawn.

    A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Order: The New Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Order: The New Dawn.

    Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Space Haven

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Order: The New Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Order: The New Dawn.

    Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Order: The New Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Order: The New Dawn.

    Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

    2024StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Solargene

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Order: The New Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Order: The New Dawn.

    Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Eastern Era

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Order: The New Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Order: The New Dawn.

    To escape from pursuit, as the leader of your sect, guide your disciples to rise again! Engage in farming and hunting, train in martial arts, and forge weapons and armor. Build your sect's base and fortifications from the ground up to survive in this perilous, ambition-filled martial world!

    2026StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Surviving Mars

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Order: The New Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Order: The New Dawn.

    There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.

    2018StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  8. Endzone - A World Apart

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Order: The New Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Order: The New Dawn.

    Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Order: The New Dawn.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Order: The New Dawn.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Order: The New Dawn.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Order: The New Dawn.

    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 ↗
  5. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Order: The New Dawn.

    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 ↗
  6. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Order: The New Dawn.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Order: The New Dawn.

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Order: The New Dawn.

    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 ↗

Frequently asked about Order: The New Dawn

What games are most similar to Order: The New Dawn?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Order: The New Dawn are Starship Colony, Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville, Space Haven.
Who developed Order: The New Dawn?
Order: The New Dawn was developed by Outer Space Workshop.

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 Order: The New Dawn.

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