Games like Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
If Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation is your kind of game, the closest matches are Astrox Imperium, Void Destroyer 2 and Asteroid Rodeo — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, lighthearted and relaxing. 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 Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation: Exiled to a deep space mining sector, you are left with a crappy ship, a laser, and a small mining beam. It is up to you to survive by working your way through the galaxy. Mine asteroids, refine and trade the ore, buy upgrades for your ship, hunt pirates... you get it.
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Astrox Imperium
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Top pick for Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
Astrox Imperium is a relaxing space game where you fly around a generated universe. Mining, Fighting, Building, Exploring, and Surviving. What makes this game unique? You have complete control of how it plays. A robust sandbox and lots of MOD tools. Make it your game, and play it your own way.
Void Destroyer 2
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.
Asteroid Rodeo
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
Asteroids are worth trillions. They're also spinning at 200 meters per second. You are a Wrangler—harpoon tumbling rocks, wrestle them to a dead stop with your custom-built ship, and mine them for credits. The pay is good. The survival rate is a conversation people avoid.
SpaceCraft
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Ranked #4 for Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Drifter
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Shares a retro mood with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
Ranked #5 for Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
Drifter is an open-world sandbox space trading game with a procedurally-generated galaxy 100,000 light years across made up of tens of thousands of star systems to explore and features an original soundtrack by composer Danny Baranowsky.
No Man's Sky
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Shares procedural generation and a relaxing mood with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
Ranked #6 for Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Interstellar Rift
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Ranked #7 for Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
Star Shelter
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Ranked #8 for Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.
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EVE Online
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Reviewers of Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.
Astrox Imperium
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Reviewers of Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
Astrox Imperium is a relaxing space game where you fly around a generated universe. Mining, Fighting, Building, Exploring, and Surviving. What makes this game unique? You have complete control of how it plays. A robust sandbox and lots of MOD tools. Make it your game, and play it your own way.
War Commander
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Reviewers of Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation cross-mention this title as a similar play.
War Commander is a large-scale MMO RTS set in a post-apocalyptic world. Take the role of the Commander and push back the forces of chaos and destruction in an attempt to rebuild. Command Troops, Destroy your enemies. Welcome to the apocalypse, Commander.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
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.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
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
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Priced ~70% under Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
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.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Frequently asked about Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
- How much does Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation cost?
- Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation are Astrox Imperium, Void Destroyer 2, Asteroid Rodeo.
- Who developed Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation?
- Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation was developed by Jace Masula.
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