Games like Ceres
If Ceres is your kind of game, the closest matches are It's Not A Moon, Stellaris and Battlevoid: Harbinger — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Ceres: Take control of a squadron of ships in full 3D space combat. Explore, battle and trade your way through a pirate, machine and monster-infested solar system.
Players who liked Ceres also play
Steam players who put hours into Ceres 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.
It's Not A Moon
WHY THIS
Top pick for Ceres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Ceres.
Manage a space station, flying through a procedually generated universe, fight, build and survive in the coldness of space.
Stellaris
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ceres.
Second-strongest match for Ceres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ceres.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
Battlevoid: Harbinger
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Ceres.
Third-strongest match for Ceres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Ceres.
Battlevoid: Harbinger is a hard sci-fi space exploration game blending roguelike, turn-based, star map strategy, and real-time space battles. You are a young commander venturing out into enemy territories, to unknown galaxies, never knowing what you will face as you jump out from hyperspace.
Battlevoid: Sector Siege
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ceres.
Ranked #4 for Ceres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Ceres.
Battlevoid: Sector Siege is an epic straight into action real-time space strategy game, in which the world has been built to deliver a lively battle field; and the action is never more than just seconds away at the start of every game.
Voidship: The Long Journey
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ceres.
Ranked #5 for Ceres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Ceres.
Design your battleship and fight your way through unforgiving space. This is a tale of a lone spaceship on a centuries-long mission. As the captain, you´ll make strategic decisions, explore unknown sectors, meet allies and enemies, gather resources, technology and crew. To battle stations!
Distant Worlds: Universe
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Ceres.
Ranked #6 for Ceres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ceres.
Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.
The Last Federation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ceres.
Ranked #7 for Ceres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ceres.
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.
Dawn of Andromeda
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ceres.
Ranked #8 for Ceres fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ceres.
Dawn of Andromeda is a pausable, real-time 4X space strategy game providing an accessible, fun and immersive experience, introducing fresh ideas to the genre. Build your empire, colonize new planets, interact with other factions and characters, research technologies and build great fleets.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Ceres
Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.
Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ceres.
Reviewers of Ceres cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ceres.
Ambitious megacorporations monopolize the conquest of space and the colonization of the solar system. At the very edge of the solar system, the companies make a discovery that will shift the technological advantage and upset the balance. And so a new conflict is born: "The Jupiter Incident."
Star Wolves
WHY THIS
Shares ship customization and an atmospheric mood with Ceres.
Reviewers of Ceres cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Ceres.
Star wolves is a 3D space RPG with deep strategy and tactical elements. The game thrusts players into a world of freelance space hunters in the XXI-XXII century A.D. during a time of political crisis for the all-powerful Empire and the three mega-corporations that control all the known worlds.
Commander Cool 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Ceres cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Ceres.
Commander Cool 2 is a four player local coop retro-styled adventure that is destined to be one of coolest game in 2015!
EVE Online
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Ceres.
Reviewers of Ceres cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Ceres.
Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.
Homeworld Remastered Collection
WHY THIS
Shares ship customization with Ceres.
Reviewers of Ceres cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ceres.
Experience the epic space strategy games that redefined the RTS genre. Control your fleet and build an armada across more than 30 single-player missions. Choose unit types, fleet formations and flight tactics for each strategic situation.
Independence War™ Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Ceres cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Ceres.
A guerilla war has been raging in space for centuries. Human colonies are breaking away from Earth's control, declaring independence from the Commonwealth. As a Commonwealth Navy commander, your mission is to stop the Indie rebels and their attacks of terror and random piracy.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ceres at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~59% under Ceres on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Ceres.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~59% under Ceres on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ceres.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~59% under Ceres on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ceres.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~59% under Ceres on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Ceres.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~59% under Ceres on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ceres.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~59% under Ceres on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Ceres.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~59% under Ceres on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ceres.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
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 Action with Ceres.
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 Ceres.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Ceres.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Ceres.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Ceres.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Ceres.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Trick & Treat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ceres.
Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about Ceres
- Does Ceres run on Steam Deck?
- Ceres 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 Ceres cost?
- Ceres is listed on Steam at 2.39 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ceres?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ceres are It's Not A Moon, Stellaris, Battlevoid: Harbinger.
- Who developed Ceres?
- Ceres was developed by Jötunn Games and published by Iceberg Interactive.
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 Ceres.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.