Games like Approximately Up
If Approximately Up is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rise - The Vieneo Province, StellarDrive and Verse Project — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Approximately Up: Build, crash, rebuild! Explore new planets in co-op multiplayer with your fully modular spaceship made from whatever bolts together long enough to fly. Mount giant thrusters, annoying cables, and everything in between. Complete wild missions, face the dangers of space and argue with your crew!
Players who liked Approximately Up also play
Steam players who put hours into Approximately Up 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.
Rise - The Vieneo Province
WHY THIS
Top pick for Approximately Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Approximately Up.
Rise is a persistent science fiction sandbox strategy MMO set on Vieneo, an exomoon about 225 LY from Earth. Use ground, air, and space vehicles to explore this vast open world of 100 million square kilometers in size! You are helping establish a living, breathing world with virtually no boundaries!
StellarDrive
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Approximately Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Approximately Up.
Mine resources, build your spaceship, and soar through the skies in this immersive space sandbox. Wire complex machinery to survive the elements, and craft the StellarDrive: a powerful engine that lets you travel faster than light.
SimulationSteam ↗Verse Project
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Approximately Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Approximately Up.
In this multiplayer game you have to explore the Solar System in real scale. Control spaceships of the near future, explore planets, moons and asteroids, mine resources, fight for space domination and build the future of the universe.
StarDune
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Approximately Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approximately Up.
Build, Fly, and Survive. StarDune combines tactile, modular construction with seamless space travel. Reshape vibrant voxel planets, automate your outposts, and explore a procedurally generated solar system alone or with friends in a world that’s yours to mold.
Rank: Warmaster
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Approximately Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Approximately Up.
Stranded on Mars with next to nothing, build a city, assemble a fleet, and expand your empire to survive a hostile solar system in this new take that combines elements of space combat and RTS inspired by the classics.
Sol Survivor
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Approximately Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Approximately Up.
Build, host, and survive in a persistent multiplayer space sandbox set in the outer Sol system. Construct orbital habitats, manage fragile station systems, and keep your crew alive while expanding through zero-g, Saturn-ring danger, and player-built infrastructure.
Avorion
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Approximately Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Approximately Up.
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Univoyager
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Approximately Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approximately Up.
Experience a 1:1 scale, procedurally generated universe with seamless exploration from planets to stars. Journey across the cosmos with zero loading screens and realistic Newtonian physics. Trade, fight, and survive in a post-apocalyptic galaxy where gravity is your only boundary.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Approximately Up at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Approximately Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Approximately Up.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Approximately Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approximately Up.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Approximately Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Approximately Up.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Approximately Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Approximately Up.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Approximately Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approximately Up.
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?
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 Adventure with Approximately Up.
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 Indie with Approximately Up.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Approximately Up.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approximately Up.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Approximately Up.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approximately Up.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Approximately Up.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Approximately Up
- Does Approximately Up run on Steam Deck?
- Approximately Up 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 Approximately Up cost?
- Approximately Up is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Approximately Up have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Approximately Up supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Approximately Up?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Approximately Up are Rise - The Vieneo Province, StellarDrive, Verse Project.
- Who developed Approximately Up?
- Approximately Up was developed by Approximately Games.
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 Approximately Up.
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