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Games like AstroPlanet

If AstroPlanet is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue, Satisfactory and Skyformer — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and lighthearted. 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.

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About AstroPlanet: AstroPlanet is a sandbox game where you find yourself in the role of an astronaut whose ship has crashed on a planet with an inhospitable atmosphere. Your task is not only to survive, but also to turn this world into a habitable place.

2025StrategyIndieAdventureSimulation0.79 USDWindowsby VIVA
AstroPlanet — Steam game cover
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Automated collectors create a living base ecosystemBuild and expand an automated base with turrets and collectorsCombat alien creatures like giant wasps with crafted turretsAtmosphericChillLighthearted

Players who liked AstroPlanet also play

Steam players who put hours into AstroPlanet 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.

  1. Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Shares survival management, base building, sandbox and an atmospheric mood with AstroPlanet.

    Top pick for AstroPlanet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with AstroPlanet.

    Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  2. Satisfactory

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building with AstroPlanet.

    Second-strongest match for AstroPlanet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with AstroPlanet.

    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!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Skyformer

    WHY THIS

    Shares terraforming, automation, crafting and an atmospheric mood with AstroPlanet.

    Third-strongest match for AstroPlanet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with AstroPlanet.

    Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure17.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Prospector

    WHY THIS

    Shares terraforming and an atmospheric mood with AstroPlanet.

    Ranked #4 for AstroPlanet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with AstroPlanet.

    Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Occupy Mars: The Game

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building and resource management with AstroPlanet.

    Ranked #5 for AstroPlanet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with AstroPlanet.

    Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation29.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. ROKH

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with AstroPlanet.

    Ranked #6 for AstroPlanet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with AstroPlanet.

    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.

    2017ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  7. Ars Notoria

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with AstroPlanet.

    Ranked #7 for AstroPlanet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with AstroPlanet.

    Ars Notoria is an open-world survival crafting game set in a rich fantasy world. Learn six distinct schools of magic, gather resources, build your base, expand your influence, and stand against the ever-shifting threat of the Enthralled. You are the one destined to change the kingdom.

    2025ActionAdventureSimulation19.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. AETHUS

    WHY THIS

    Shares automation, survival management, survival and an atmospheric mood with AstroPlanet.

    Ranked #8 for AstroPlanet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with AstroPlanet.

    Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to AstroPlanet

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.

  1. Subnautica

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with AstroPlanet.

    Reviewers of AstroPlanet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with AstroPlanet.

    Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

    2018IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. No Man's Sky

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building, exploration and an atmospheric mood with AstroPlanet.

    Reviewers of AstroPlanet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with AstroPlanet.

    No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

    2016ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. ASTRONEER

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building, exploration and an atmospheric mood with AstroPlanet.

    Reviewers of AstroPlanet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with AstroPlanet.

    Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

    2019IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with AstroPlanet.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with AstroPlanet.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with AstroPlanet.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with AstroPlanet.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with AstroPlanet.

    『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.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with AstroPlanet.

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  8. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with AstroPlanet.

    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!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about AstroPlanet

How much does AstroPlanet cost?
AstroPlanet is listed on Steam at 0.79 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to AstroPlanet?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside AstroPlanet are Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue, Satisfactory, Skyformer.
Who developed AstroPlanet?
AstroPlanet was developed by VIVA.

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 AstroPlanet.

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