Games like Distant Colony
If Distant Colony is your kind of game, the closest matches are Oasis Bloom, LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action! and Stellar Shipyard — 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 Distant Colony: Explore alien planets in sci-fi survival adventure, gather resources to craft tools, overcome environmental hazards, uncover hidden secrets, and build thriving, self-sustaining colonies with advanced technology. Prepare humanity for a new future among the stars.
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Steam players who put hours into Distant Colony 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.
Oasis Bloom
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Top pick for Distant Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Distant Colony.
Revive and terraform a dead alien planet in this sci-fi farming / life sim. Terraform the frozen wastes, grow rule-breaking mutant crops, team up with an alien AI to revive extinct alien creatures, and build a thriving colony of settlers to befriend and romance.
LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!
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Second-strongest match for Distant Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distant Colony.
LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action! - A space roguelite game about adventures, loyal crews and a multitude of amazing stories in the depths of the galaxy. Sources of inspiration for this game: The sense of freedom and adventure from Pirates! by Sid Meier, crazy stories from Rimworld...
Stellar Shipyard
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Third-strongest match for Distant Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Stellar Shipyard is a space colony sandbox where you design modular ships and stations, and automate resource production using drones and workers. Let the automated systems fly even the most improvised designs. Face rival factions and threats solo, or alongside friends as allies or rivals.
Cutout Village
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Ranked #4 for Distant Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Distant Colony.
Build your own little paper village in this relaxing city-builder focused on building and crafting. Cut, fold and glue to help it grow, discover its story and join its inhabitants as they slowly bring life back to its streets.
Warota: I Live Next to The Demon King's Castle LOL
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Ranked #5 for Distant Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Distant Colony.
【Village-Building Action RPG】 Saved by a goddess, you arrive in a ruined world ruled by the Demon King. Gather resources, build your village, swap hats to change classes and give villagers their roles. But one night, the Idol Demon King holds a Live next door...and monsters come pouring in!?
Rise - The Vieneo Province
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Ranked #6 for Distant Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Distant Colony.
Rise is a persistent science fiction sandbox strategy MMO set on Vieneo, an exomoon about 225 LY from Earth. Use ground, air, and space vehicles to explore this vast open world of 100 million square kilometers in size! You are helping establish a living, breathing world with virtually no boundaries!
Cockroach Simulation
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Ranked #7 for Distant Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distant Colony.
Cockroach Simulation A terrifying insect-perspective survival horror game that will make you fear every sound inside the house. You play as a tiny cockroach struggling to survive. Because the homeowner is not always alone.
Diseased
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Ranked #8 for Distant Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distant Colony.
Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to expand your borders and send your men to explore. Risk it all for vital resources, as surviving the relentless waves of the Diseased emerging from the dark will be harder than you think.
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ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distant Colony.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Distant Colony.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distant Colony.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
An Arcade Full of Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Distant Colony.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
No Results Found
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distant Colony.
Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distant Colony.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distant Colony.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Frequently asked about Distant Colony
- What games are most similar to Distant Colony?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Distant Colony are Oasis Bloom, LTA: Light-years! Thrusters! Action!, Stellar Shipyard.
- Who developed Distant Colony?
- Distant Colony was developed by Asteroid 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 Distant Colony.
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