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Games like Particle Fleet: Emergence

If Particle Fleet: Emergence is your kind of game, the closest matches are Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal, Creeper World 2: Anniversary Edition and Creeper World: Anniversary Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its intuitive navigation and controls, challenging and contemplative. 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 Particle Fleet: Emergence: Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.

2016StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOS · Linuxby Knuckle Cracker
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Best soundtrack in the creeper world franchiseEasy to pick up and play but deep improvement curveIntuitive navigation and controlsChallengingContemplativeEpic

Players who liked Particle Fleet: Emergence also play

Steam players who put hours into Particle Fleet: Emergence 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. Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Top pick for Particle Fleet: Emergence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Creeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Creeper World 2: Anniversary Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Second-strongest match for Particle Fleet: Emergence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Deceptively simple... amazingly deep. Creeper World 2 thrusts you into the 14th millennium fighting and enemy that flows and oozes through the terrain. Employ advanced weapons,gravity manipulating repulsors, wormhole like rifts, and your own wit against this never yielding enemy.

    2016StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Creeper World: Anniversary Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Third-strongest match for Particle Fleet: Emergence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Imagine an enemy that is everywhere and moves like a giant, organic mass across the map. Imagine your base and your people surrounded by a blanket of crushing destruction from all directions. Your only hope, well what hope? Then you take the high ground and pound this enemy into oblivion.

    2016StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Creeper World 4

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Ranked #4 for Particle Fleet: Emergence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    The unstoppable fluid enemy has returned and destroyed every world in its path! Defend against Creeper as it floods across the 3D terrain in this real time strategy game where the enemy is a fluid.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Infested Planet

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Ranked #5 for Particle Fleet: Emergence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.

    2014ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Distant Worlds: Universe

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Ranked #6 for Particle Fleet: Emergence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.  

    2014StrategySimulation29.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Creeper World IXE

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Ranked #7 for Particle Fleet: Emergence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    The unstoppable alien force known as The Creeper has returned, devouring thousands of worlds in its path, and yours is next. Battle against the Creeper fluid in a groundbreaking pixel-level simulation to prove that humanity will rule the galaxy forever!

    2024ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Freaking Meatbags

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Particle Fleet: Emergence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Land on a planet, pick up some rocks, leave before the solar system explodes. Oh, and don't die in the nightly robot attacks! Freaking Meatbags is a humorous real-time strategy game that's all about building a base, mixing meatbag DNA, then convincing those dolts to help you gather resources.

    2015ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Particle Fleet: Emergence at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Particle Fleet: Emergence on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Particle Fleet: Emergence on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Particle Fleet: Emergence on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Particle Fleet: Emergence on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Particle Fleet: Emergence on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Particle Fleet: Emergence on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Particle Fleet: Emergence on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Particle Fleet: Emergence on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

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 with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    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 ↗
  4. 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 Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    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 ↗
  7. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

More from Knuckle Cracker

Other recommendable Steam games by Knuckle Cracker, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Creeper World 4

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Another title from Knuckle Cracker, the studio behind Particle Fleet: Emergence. Shares Strategy and Indie with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    The unstoppable fluid enemy has returned and destroyed every world in its path! Defend against Creeper as it floods across the 3D terrain in this real time strategy game where the enemy is a fluid.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Another title from Knuckle Cracker, the studio behind Particle Fleet: Emergence. Shares Strategy and Indie with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Creeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Creeper World: Anniversary Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Another title from Knuckle Cracker, the studio behind Particle Fleet: Emergence. Shares Strategy and Indie with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Imagine an enemy that is everywhere and moves like a giant, organic mass across the map. Imagine your base and your people surrounded by a blanket of crushing destruction from all directions. Your only hope, well what hope? Then you take the high ground and pound this enemy into oblivion.

    2016StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Creeper World IXE

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Another title from Knuckle Cracker, the studio behind Particle Fleet: Emergence. Shares Strategy and Indie with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    The unstoppable alien force known as The Creeper has returned, devouring thousands of worlds in its path, and yours is next. Battle against the Creeper fluid in a groundbreaking pixel-level simulation to prove that humanity will rule the galaxy forever!

    2024ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Creeper World 2: Anniversary Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Another title from Knuckle Cracker, the studio behind Particle Fleet: Emergence. Shares Strategy and Indie with Particle Fleet: Emergence.

    Deceptively simple... amazingly deep. Creeper World 2 thrusts you into the 14th millennium fighting and enemy that flows and oozes through the terrain. Employ advanced weapons,gravity manipulating repulsors, wormhole like rifts, and your own wit against this never yielding enemy.

    2016StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Particle Fleet: Emergence

Does Particle Fleet: Emergence run on Steam Deck?
Particle Fleet: Emergence 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 Particle Fleet: Emergence cost?
Particle Fleet: Emergence is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Particle Fleet: Emergence?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Particle Fleet: Emergence are Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal, Creeper World 2: Anniversary Edition, Creeper World: Anniversary Edition.
Who developed Particle Fleet: Emergence?
Particle Fleet: Emergence was developed by Knuckle Cracker.

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 Particle Fleet: Emergence.

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