Games like Rodina
If Rodina is your kind of game, the closest matches are Elite Dangerous, Starship EVO and SpaceCraft — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and epic. 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 →Rodina is a singleplayer space exploration game developed by Elliptic Games, released in 2014. Players navigate a procedurally generated solar system at planet scale, piloting spacecraft through atmospheric environments and engaging in high-speed combat. The game blends hard sci-fi with philosophical themes in its lore, which reviewers note compels players to read every data crystal they encounter. A dynamic soundtrack adapts to exploration and combat situations. Reviewers describe the experience as atmospheric and contemplative, with the planetary scale feeling genuinely massive. Players find ship combat visceral and rewarding. The game holds a 94% positive rating from 1,123 Steam reviews and runs at a playable level on Steam Deck.
About Rodina: A single-developer passion project. A seamless full scale solar system. Thrilling action. Be part of an incredible journey as a Universe is built from the ground up!
Players who liked Rodina also play
Steam players who put hours into Rodina 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.
Elite Dangerous
WHY THIS
Shares procedural exploration and an atmospheric mood with Rodina.
Top pick for Rodina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rodina.
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
Starship EVO
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Rodina.
Second-strongest match for Rodina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rodina.
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
SpaceCraft
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Rodina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Rodina.
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
SpaceEngine
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Rodina.
Ranked #4 for Rodina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with Rodina.
The world's first science-based photorealistic interactive 3D planetarium that models the entire Universe, using procedural generation for uncharted areas.
Rebel Galaxy
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rodina.
Ranked #5 for Rodina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rodina.
Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.
3030 Deathwar Redux - A Space Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rodina.
Ranked #6 for Rodina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rodina.
3030 Deathwar is a unique mix of Adventure and Space Sim. Explore star systems, mine and hunt pirates in top-down mode. Leave your ship and switch into classic Adventuring mode, where you explore derelicts, talk to shady characters or head over to the space bar for a drink.
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Rodina.
Ranked #7 for Rodina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Rodina.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
StarMade
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Rodina.
Ranked #8 for Rodina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rodina.
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rodina at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Rodina on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rodina.
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 Rodina on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rodina.
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 Rodina on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Rodina.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Rodina on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rodina.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Rodina on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rodina.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Rodina on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rodina.
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 Rodina on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rodina.
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 Rodina on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rodina.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rodina.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Rodina.
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 Action and Indie with Rodina.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rodina.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rodina.
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 Action and Indie with Rodina.
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.
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Frequently asked about Rodina
- Does Rodina run on Steam Deck?
- Rodina 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 Rodina cost?
- Rodina is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Rodina?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rodina are Elite Dangerous, Starship EVO, SpaceCraft.
- Who developed Rodina?
- Rodina was developed by Elliptic 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 Rodina.
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