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Games like Planet Centauri

If Planet Centauri is your kind of game, the closest matches are Crea, Wonderia and Necesse — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and challenging. 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 Planet Centauri: Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!

2024ActionIndieAdventureRPG7.49 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOS · Linuxby Permadeath
Planet Centauri — Steam game cover
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Tactical positioning mattersWriting quality is exceptionalChallengingImmersiveFaction politicsMonster capturing and transformation

Players who liked Planet Centauri also play

Steam players who put hours into Planet Centauri 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. Crea

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Planet Centauri.

    Top pick for Planet Centauri fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Centauri.

    Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!

    2016ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Wonderia

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Planet Centauri fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Planet Centauri.

    Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!

    2026AdventureSimulationRPGSteam ↗
  3. Necesse

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Planet Centauri.

    Third-strongest match for Planet Centauri fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Centauri.

    Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Core Keeper

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Planet Centauri fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Centauri.

    Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Keplerth

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Planet Centauri.

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

    Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!

    2022IndieAdventureSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Forest

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Planet Centauri.

    Ranked #6 for Planet Centauri fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Centauri.

    As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Voidtrain

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Planet Centauri.

    Ranked #7 for Planet Centauri fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Centauri.

    Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Craftopia

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Planet Centauri.

    Ranked #8 for Planet Centauri fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Centauri.

    Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Planet Centauri

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. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Planet Centauri.

    Reviewers of Planet Centauri cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Centauri.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Starbound

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation with Planet Centauri.

    Reviewers of Planet Centauri cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Centauri.

    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...

    2016ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. SHENZHEN I/O

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Planet Centauri.

    Reviewers of Planet Centauri cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Planet Centauri.

    BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

    2016IndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Choice of Life: Middle Ages

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Planet Centauri.

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

    A card game in a Medieval setting where you make decisions on which not only your life will depend, but also the future of the kingdom!

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Planet Centauri at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~87% under Planet Centauri on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Centauri.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Planet Centauri on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Centauri.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. GRIS

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Planet Centauri on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Centauri.

    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.

    2018IndieAdventure3.74 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~73% under Planet Centauri on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Centauri.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Planet Centauri on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Centauri.

    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.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~87% under Planet Centauri on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Planet Centauri.

    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.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Crypt of the NecroDancer

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Planet Centauri on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Centauri.

    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!

    2015ActionIndieRPG2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. A Short Hike

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Planet Centauri on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Centauri.

    Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

    2019IndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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 Planet Centauri.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

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

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

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

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Planet Centauri

Does Planet Centauri run on Steam Deck?
Planet Centauri 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 Planet Centauri cost?
Planet Centauri is listed on Steam at 7.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Planet Centauri have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Planet Centauri supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to Planet Centauri?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Planet Centauri are Crea, Wonderia, Necesse.
Who developed Planet Centauri?
Planet Centauri was developed by Permadeath.

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 Planet Centauri.

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