Games like Project Substrata
If Project Substrata is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stellar Shipyard, Strata and Alien Farmer — 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 Project Substrata: A base-building and automation game about restoring a ruined planet. Mine resources, build factories, deploy AI drones, and revive a living world.
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Steam players who put hours into Project Substrata 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.
Stellar Shipyard
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Top pick for Project Substrata fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Substrata.
Stellar Shipyard is a space colony sandbox where you design modular ships and stations, and automate resource production using drones and workers. Let the automated systems fly even the most improvised designs. Face rival factions and threats solo, or alongside friends as allies or rivals.
Strata
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Second-strongest match for Project Substrata fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Substrata.
Strata is a scientifically inspired astro-planetary sandbox where you influence the formation and evolution of entire worlds — your worlds. Discover, gather, and build on the surfaces of diverse planets, explore them in depth, and manage your systems beyond the orbital levels.
Alien Farmer
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Third-strongest match for Project Substrata fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Project Substrata.
Alien Farmer is a farming, light automation, tower defense game set on a hostile alien world. Farm, mine, and build an automated base by day, then defend it against deadly creatures by night. Explore, expand, and survive alone or in co-op.
Untethered
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Ranked #4 for Project Substrata fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Project Substrata.
Untethered is a space survival-sandbox set in our own cosmic backyard. Explore zero-gravity environments, build and operate realistic space stations, and fight to stay alive in the unforgiving realm of deep space.
Cosmic Ascent
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Ranked #5 for Project Substrata fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Substrata.
Build and expand an orbital station in this idle/incremental space colony sim. Manage crew, resources, refinery chains, research and ship expeditions as you progress from Earth orbit toward new planets.
Bouncekraft
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Ranked #6 for Project Substrata fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Project Substrata.
A physics-driven automation game where your workers bounce between buildings like pinballs. Design bounce paths, build production chains, and survive asteroid waves.
StrategySteam ↗FluxWerks
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Ranked #7 for Project Substrata fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Substrata.
Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.
MORS
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Ranked #8 for Project Substrata fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Substrata.
Build an automated factory on a true-scale Mars streamed from real NASA terrain. Mine, smelt and belt resources, run trains between outposts, master chemistry, and grow from a lone lander into a planet-spanning industry while the real Martian weather does its worst.
Free alternatives
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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The Lab
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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!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
No Results Found
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Project Substrata.
Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Project Substrata.
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!
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Project Substrata.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
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Frequently asked about Project Substrata
- Does Project Substrata have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Project Substrata supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Project Substrata?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Project Substrata are Stellar Shipyard, Strata, Alien Farmer.
- Who developed Project Substrata?
- Project Substrata was developed by Studio Substrata.
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 Project Substrata.
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