Games like Cosmonautica
If Cosmonautica is your kind of game, the closest matches are D.R.I.F.T., Interstellaria and Orbit Zero — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its crew needs evolve unpredictably, low system requirements and challenging. 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 Cosmonautica: Cosmonautica is a fresh take on space trading in a procedurally generated universe, paired with quirky humor for your intergalactic enjoyment.
Players who liked Cosmonautica also play
Steam players who put hours into Cosmonautica 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.
D.R.I.F.T.
WHY THIS
Top pick for Cosmonautica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cosmonautica.
A slow, system-driven space sim about contracts, reputation, and survival through careful decision-making, not combat or heroics.
Interstellaria
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Cosmonautica.
Second-strongest match for Cosmonautica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cosmonautica.
Managing a fleet across a dangerous galaxy. Every star and planet holds untold riches and dangers. Each encounter will require skills in trading, diplomacy, and combat. Allocate power to engines, charge all weapons, and take on the worst the galaxy has to handle.
Orbit Zero
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cosmonautica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cosmonautica.
Create a Company, Build structures, Collect Resources, Make Investments and Speculate on Assets. Carefully manage your Workforce, Finances, Resources, Shareholders, BOD & Political Partnerships.
VOID PROFIT
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cosmonautica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cosmonautica.
Fly a rented ship in a procedurally-generated universe, navigate risky routes, and profit from changing markets before the opportunity disappears and you lose it all. Take jobs, navigate the markets, smuggle, lie. Do everything in order to keep flying.
Asteroid Rodeo
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Cosmonautica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cosmonautica.
Asteroids are worth trillions. They're also spinning at 200 meters per second. You are a Wrangler—harpoon tumbling rocks, wrestle them to a dead stop with your custom-built ship, and mine them for credits. The pay is good. The survival rate is a conversation people avoid.
X Rebirth
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Cosmonautica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cosmonautica.
In the distant future, the X universe faces a period of profound and irrevocable change. While the universe stumbles towards an uncertain future, countless adventures await as new enemies rise in search of power.
Stargazer's Terraforming Estate Co.
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Cosmonautica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cosmonautica.
Stargazer's Terraforming Estate Company terraforms & sells planets for years. Be a respectful member of the family and monopolize the galaxy by building dyson spheres in the name of the company.
X3: Terran Conflict
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cosmonautica.
Ranked #8 for Cosmonautica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cosmonautica.
It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cosmonautica at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cosmonautica on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cosmonautica.
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 ~50% under Cosmonautica on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cosmonautica.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cosmonautica on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cosmonautica.
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 ~50% under Cosmonautica on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cosmonautica.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Cosmonautica on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cosmonautica.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cosmonautica on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Cosmonautica.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Cosmonautica on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cosmonautica.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cosmonautica on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cosmonautica.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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. Shares Adventure with Cosmonautica.
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 Cosmonautica.
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 and Adventure with Cosmonautica.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cosmonautica.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cosmonautica.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cosmonautica.
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 Cosmonautica.
‘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 Adventure with Cosmonautica.
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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Other recommendable Steam games by Chasing Carrots, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Halls of Torment
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cosmonautica.
Another title from Chasing Carrots, the studio behind Cosmonautica. Shares Indie with Cosmonautica.
Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?
Good Company
WHY THIS
Another title from Chasing Carrots, the studio behind Cosmonautica. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cosmonautica.
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
Pressure Overdrive
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cosmonautica.
Another title from Chasing Carrots, the studio behind Cosmonautica. Shares Indie with Cosmonautica.
Pressure Overdrive is arcade twin-stick madness on hot wheels in a colorful bathtub-punk setting!
Halls of Torment: Prelude
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cosmonautica.
Another title from Chasing Carrots, the studio behind Cosmonautica. Shares Indie with Cosmonautica.
Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?
Frequently asked about Cosmonautica
- How much does Cosmonautica cost?
- Cosmonautica is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cosmonautica?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cosmonautica are D.R.I.F.T., Interstellaria, Orbit Zero.
- Who developed Cosmonautica?
- Cosmonautica was developed by Chasing Carrots.
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 Cosmonautica.
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