Games like Orion Trail
If Orion Trail is your kind of game, the closest matches are BLACKHOLE, Convoy and Starbound — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its humor is consistently praised, satirizes sci fi tropes and comedic. 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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Players who liked Orion Trail also play
Steam players who put hours into Orion Trail 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.
BLACKHOLE
WHY THIS
Top pick for Orion Trail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Orion Trail.
BLACKHOLE is an award-winning hardcore platformer with over 15 hours of story-driven sci-fi comedy and gravity-twisting puzzles. Complete Edition out now!
Convoy
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a nostalgic mood with Orion Trail.
Second-strongest match for Orion Trail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Orion Trail.
Convoy is a tactical roguelike-like inspired by Mad Max and FTL in which you cross a wasteland in search of parts for your broken ship. Presented in pixel art and set in a future post-apocalyptic setting, Convoy is a squad based tactical combat roguelike-like in its core.
Starbound
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Orion Trail.
Third-strongest match for Orion Trail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Orion Trail.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
CrossCode
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Orion Trail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Orion Trail.
A retro-inspired 2D Action RPG set in the distant future. CrossCode combines 16-bit SNES-style graphics with butter-smooth physics, a fast-paced combat system, and engaging puzzle mechanics, served with a gripping sci-fi story.
Prodeus
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Orion Trail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Orion Trail.
Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.
Heat Signature
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Orion Trail.
Ranked #6 for Orion Trail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Orion Trail.
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.
Axiom Verge
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Orion Trail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Orion Trail.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Gato Roboto
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Orion Trail.
Ranked #8 for Orion Trail fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Orion Trail.
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Orion Trail
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Organ Trail: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a nostalgic mood with Orion Trail.
Reviewers of Orion Trail cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Orion Trail.
Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.
Super Amazing Wagon Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Orion Trail.
Reviewers of Orion Trail cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Orion Trail.
Super Amazing Wagon Adventure is a fast-paced 2d shooting game with a random story. You control a group of three migrants traveling west along a wagon trail. The game consists of short scenes that are sequenced together in a semi-random way to tell a crazy adventure story.
The Oregon Trail
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Orion Trail.
Reviewers of Orion Trail cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Orion Trail.
The Oregon Trail is back in a beautiful blend of charming pixel art characters, 3D environments, and cutting-edge lighting and visual effects!
Rescue Team: Danger from Outer Space!
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Orion Trail cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Orion Trail.
Stop an alien threat from wreaking untold devastation on Earth! After a meteor strikes Florida and releases strange spores, weird plants begin to grow and destroy entire cities! Only the Rescue Team has the skills to deal with this menace from outer space!
Space Team
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Orion Trail cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Orion Trail.
‘Space Squad’ is a top-down space shooting survival game. Protect your central circular base and aim at enemies with your mouse. Earn skill points by defeating enemies to unlock various abilities. Face waves of incoming enemies and do your best to survive.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Orion Trail at current Steam store prices.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Orion Trail on Steam right now. Shares Action with Orion Trail.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Orion Trail on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Orion Trail.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Orion Trail on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Orion Trail.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Orion Trail on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Orion Trail.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Orion Trail on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Orion Trail.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under Orion Trail on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Orion Trail.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Orion Trail on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Orion Trail.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Orion Trail on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Orion Trail.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
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 and Adventure with Orion Trail.
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.
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 Orion Trail.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Orion Trail.
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 Orion Trail.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Orion Trail.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Orion Trail.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Orion Trail.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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More from Schell Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Schell Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Until You Fall
WHY THIS
Another title from Schell Games, the studio behind Orion Trail. Shares Action and Indie with Orion Trail.
Fantasy and synthwave collide in this physically active VR sword fighting game. Grow stronger as you battle through an awesome neon environment and strike down magic-infused monstrosities in this hack-and-slash roguelite. Fight. Fall. Rise Again.
Among Us 3D
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Orion Trail.
Another title from Schell Games, the studio behind Orion Trail.
The definitive social deduction party game in three dimensions! Can the Crewmates survive, or will Impostors take over? Roles, Emergency Meetings, deception, sabotages, tasks: enjoy your favorite brand of chaos from the original Among Us with a 3D twist.
Among Us 3D: VR
WHY THIS
Another title from Schell Games, the studio behind Orion Trail.
The definitive social deduction party game in virtual reality! Can the Crewmates survive, or will Impostors take over? Roles, Emergency Meetings, deception, sabotages, tasks: enjoy your favorite brand of chaos from the original Among Us with a VR twist.
I Expect You To Die
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Orion Trail.
Another title from Schell Games, the studio behind Orion Trail. Shares Adventure with Orion Trail.
Test your problem-solving skills in this virtual reality escape-the-room puzzle game. Play as a secret agent armed with telekinetic abilities on a mission to stop Zoraxis, an evil corporation with plans for world domination.
I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Orion Trail.
Another title from Schell Games, the studio behind Orion Trail. Shares Adventure with Orion Trail.
Become an elite super spy ready for espionage, explosives, and gadgets galore. This popular escape-the-room VR franchise is back with more ingenious puzzles, cunning villains, and dangerous locales.
I Expect You To Die 3: Cog in the Machine
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Orion Trail.
Another title from Schell Games, the studio behind Orion Trail. Shares Action and Adventure with Orion Trail.
Outwit your most cunning adversary to date in the latest installment of this popular, spy-themed VR puzzle series. Wield new gadgets, visit action-packed locales, and wear custom disguises as you dive back into the world of espionage in this escape room game.
Water Bears VR
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Orion Trail.
Another title from Schell Games, the studio behind Orion Trail. Shares Indie with Orion Trail.
Free trapped water bears by rerouting, remixing, and redirecting water flows in a sunny 3D island environment. This charming VR game will have the entire family giggling as they solve puzzles and frolic with these loveable creatures.
Enemy Mind
WHY THIS
Another title from Schell Games, the studio behind Orion Trail. Shares Action and Indie with Orion Trail.
A retro shooter with a new power: the power to become any ship.Lost in the depths of space, you are a being of pure psychic energy with the uncanny power to take over and control anything you see in order to survive.Built for PC, Enemy Mind lets you battle your way through 70+ waves of challenging enemies.
Frequently asked about Orion Trail
- How much does Orion Trail cost?
- Orion Trail is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Orion Trail?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Orion Trail are BLACKHOLE, Convoy, Starbound.
- Who developed Orion Trail?
- Orion Trail was developed by Schell Games.
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