Games like Transcendence
If Transcendence is your kind of game, the closest matches are Starcom: Nexus, Starcom: Unknown Space and Gaia Beyond — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its actions have real consequences, deep lore to uncover and emergent storytelling. 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 Transcendence: Explore the farthest reaches of Human Space in this open-world space adventure. Compelled to journey to the Galactic Core by a mysterious hyperintelligence, you must fight your way through dozens of star systems teeming with clashing empires, expansionist AIs, and fearsome xenophobes.
Players who liked Transcendence also play
Steam players who put hours into Transcendence 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.
Starcom: Nexus
WHY THIS
Shares resource trading, ship customization and an atmospheric mood with Transcendence.
Top pick for Transcendence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Transcendence.
Suddenly thrown into an unknown galaxy, you must explore, fight or befriend aliens and transform your ship from a small survey vessel into a powerful battlecruiser to unravel the mystery of the forces that brought you here and find your way home.
Starcom: Unknown Space
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transcendence.
Second-strongest match for Transcendence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Transcendence.
Starcom: Unknown Space is an action RPG of space exploration and adventure. Build your own starship while discovering an epic story in a universe of strange mysteries, alien factions and uncharted worlds.
Gaia Beyond
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transcendence.
Third-strongest match for Transcendence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Transcendence.
Gaia Beyond is a handcrafted 2D Action-RPG, an exploration mix built around the core features fighting, mining and trading. Your decisions are footprints within a vast non-linear solar system. Forge alliances among numerous factions and develop relations with hundreds of NPCs.
Star Nomad 2
WHY THIS
Shares ship customization and an immersive mood with Transcendence.
Ranked #4 for Transcendence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Transcendence.
A space trader & combat sim meets squad-RPG, large scale conquest, choice driven gameplay with fluid & punchy tactical real-time combat set in a dynamic open-world sandbox.
ΔV: Rings of Saturn
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transcendence.
Ranked #5 for Transcendence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Transcendence.
A physics-based mining sim, set in the thickest debris field in Sol. Every action has a reaction, lasers are invisible without a medium, and your thrust is a potent weapon. Find trade, adapt your equipment to your playstyle, hire a crew to help. Unravel the mysteries of the rings, or just get rich.
RymdResa
WHY THIS
Shares ship customization and an atmospheric mood with Transcendence.
Ranked #6 for Transcendence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Transcendence.
A relaxed roguelike space odyssey in a procedurally generated universe! Travel through a lonely and mysterious cosmos. Customize your ship, explore and survive!
Heat Signature
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Transcendence.
Ranked #7 for Transcendence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Transcendence.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Transcendence.
Ranked #8 for Transcendence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Transcendence.
Hyperjump into the dark recesses of space with Genesis Alpha One - a roguelike FPS where you must build, maintain and navigate your ship through a galaxy filled with hostile alien and human threats. Explore, create and survive the militarized space race in order to secure humanity’s future.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Transcendence
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Star Valor
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transcendence.
Reviewers of Transcendence cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Transcendence.
Choose your own destiny as you explore an open-world procedurally generated galaxy where anything is possible. Become a miner, a trader, a bounty hunter, a pirate, or perhaps a jack of all trades. Start off small and build your way to the top but remember with every action, comes consequences.
Star Control I and II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transcendence.
Reviewers of Transcendence cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Transcendence.
Explore a vast universe with pulse-pounding action, side-splitting humor, and hair-raising plot twists in these 2 classic space adventure games.
Star Control III
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transcendence.
Reviewers of Transcendence cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Transcendence.
The universe is on the brink of destruction. It’s up to you to embark on an epic adventure of strategy and diplomacy to save thousands of worlds from total annihilation. But no pressure, right?
Sid Meier's Pirates!
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Transcendence.
Reviewers of Transcendence cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Transcendence.
Sail the Caribbean, marauding all on the high seas or ally your ship and crew as a privateer in search of riches - the life you choose is up to you. Face dogged enemies, raid unsuspecting villages, woo fair maidens, avoid capture or dig for buried treasure. Discover what it takes to become one of the most famous pirates in history!
NetHack: Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Transcendence.
Reviewers of Transcendence cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Transcendence.
NETHACK: LEGACY is a remastered version of the original NetHack, the deeply rich and complex fantasy D&D roguelike. Hack and slash your way through orcs, dragons, and cockatrices as you explore the perilous procedurally-generated dungeons seeking the Amulet of Yendor.
Stalker
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Transcendence cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Transcendence.
The background story of "Stalker" is that a teenager encounters various events on the road following a young girl. The teenager(player) can selectively interact and give repairs / help due to these events. How you will lead to different ending. The game was developed during the Global Game Jam 2020.
HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transcendence.
Reviewers of Transcendence cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Transcendence.
Unravel cyber secrets and foil mass surveillance as a skilled hacker in Hackhub. Challenge authority, rewrite the rules, and emerge as the ultimate digital rebel.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Transcendence at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Transcendence on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Transcendence.
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 ~67% under Transcendence on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Transcendence.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Transcendence on Steam right now. Shares Action with Transcendence.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Transcendence on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Transcendence.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Transcendence on Steam right now. Shares Action with Transcendence.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Transcendence on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Transcendence.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Transcendence on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Transcendence.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Transcendence on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Transcendence.
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.
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 Transcendence.
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 Transcendence.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Transcendence.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Transcendence.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Transcendence.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Transcendence.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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Frequently asked about Transcendence
- Does Transcendence work on Steam Deck?
- Transcendence is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Transcendence cost?
- Transcendence is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Transcendence?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Transcendence are Starcom: Nexus, Starcom: Unknown Space, Gaia Beyond.
- Who developed Transcendence?
- Transcendence was developed by Kronosaur Productions.
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