Games like Nettle
If Nettle is your kind of game, the closest matches are Terrafort, Kings Town and Gateworlds — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Nettle: A single-player survival RTS game about exploring the vast cosmos, the many planets inhabiting it and their countless secrets. You'll need to explore, gather resources and research new technologies in order to survive, thrive, and eventually build a colony on a bizarre, foreign world.
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Steam players who put hours into Nettle 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.
Kings Town
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Second-strongest match for Nettle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Nettle.
Build up your own civilization in the time of kings and kingdoms. Become the manager of a little town and make it to a great city. Defend it from other kingdoms and destroy them.
Gateworlds
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Third-strongest match for Nettle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Nettle.
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Alien Marauder
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Ranked #4 for Nettle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Nettle.
“Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme. In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, build and defend base to survive against the vexan waves. Make the right decision!
Freaking Meatbags
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Ranked #5 for Nettle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Nettle.
Land on a planet, pick up some rocks, leave before the solar system explodes. Oh, and don't die in the nightly robot attacks! Freaking Meatbags is a humorous real-time strategy game that's all about building a base, mixing meatbag DNA, then convincing those dolts to help you gather resources.
Aliens: Dark Descent
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Ranked #6 for Nettle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Nettle.
Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.
From Glory To Goo
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Ranked #7 for Nettle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Nettle.
From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
Ascent of Ashes
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Ranked #8 for Nettle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Nettle.
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
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Frequently asked about Nettle
- Is Nettle free to play?
- Yes — Nettle is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Nettle?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nettle are Terrafort, Kings Town, Gateworlds.
- Who developed Nettle?
- Nettle was developed by 2xN Studios, theepiccoder and published by theepiccoder.
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 Nettle.
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