Games like Farlight Explorers
If Farlight Explorers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Maia, Final Factory and Automation Empire — 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 Farlight Explorers: Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive. Automate the creation of new products. Build a spaceship to transport your products to other places...
Players who liked Farlight Explorers also play
Steam players who put hours into Farlight Explorers 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.
Maia
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Farlight Explorers.
Top pick for Farlight Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlight Explorers.
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Final Factory
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Farlight Explorers.
Second-strongest match for Farlight Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Farlight Explorers.
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Automation Empire
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Farlight Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlight Explorers.
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
StarMade
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Farlight Explorers.
Ranked #4 for Farlight Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlight Explorers.
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!
ROKH
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Farlight Explorers.
Ranked #5 for Farlight Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlight Explorers.
Have you got what it takes to survive on Mars? ROKH is a multiplayer survival game featuring scientific realism and extremely deep crafting and building. Make the red planet your sandbox and create a thriving colony.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Farlight Explorers.
Ranked #6 for Farlight Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlight Explorers.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Little Big Workshop
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Farlight Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Farlight Explorers.
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Interstellar Rift
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Farlight Explorers.
Ranked #8 for Farlight Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farlight Explorers.
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
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Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Farlight Explorers.
Reviewers of Farlight Explorers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlight Explorers.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Farlight Explorers.
Reviewers of Farlight Explorers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlight Explorers.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
FortressCraft Evolved!
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Farlight Explorers.
Reviewers of Farlight Explorers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlight Explorers.
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Farlight Explorers.
Reviewers of Farlight Explorers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlight Explorers.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Farlight Explorers.
Reviewers of Farlight Explorers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlight Explorers.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Farlight Explorers at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Farlight Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farlight Explorers.
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 Farlight Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Farlight Explorers.
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 Farlight Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlight Explorers.
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 Farlight Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Farlight Explorers.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Farlight Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Farlight Explorers.
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 Farlight Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Farlight Explorers.
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 Farlight Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farlight Explorers.
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 Farlight Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Farlight Explorers.
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.
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!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlight Explorers.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlight Explorers.
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.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Farlight Explorers.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Farlight Explorers.
Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.
Supermarket Together
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farlight Explorers.
The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!
Fallout Shelter
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Farlight Explorers.
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
Bloons TD Battles
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Farlight Explorers.
Go head to head with other players in a Bloon-popping battle for victory. From the creators of best-selling Bloons TD 5, this all new Battles game is specially designed for multiplayer combat, featuring the ability to control bloons directly and send them charging past your opponent's defenses.
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Frequently asked about Farlight Explorers
- How much does Farlight Explorers cost?
- Farlight Explorers is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Farlight Explorers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Farlight Explorers are Maia, Final Factory, Automation Empire.
- Who developed Farlight Explorers?
- Farlight Explorers was developed by Farlight Games Industry.
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