Games like ORBITAL
If ORBITAL is your kind of game, the closest matches are Project Longshot, Rakete and Launch Window — 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 ORBITAL: A space adventure where you solve the mystery of your past, building a thriving civilization across a distant solar system. Fly your rocket as a commander, grow your colonies and build planet upgrades to conquer this unknown space.
Players who liked ORBITAL also play
Steam players who put hours into ORBITAL 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.
Project Longshot
WHY THIS
Top pick for ORBITAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with ORBITAL.
Launch from a familiar world into a 1:1 scale solar system of beautiful, unforgiving planets. Colonise, mine, and explore real places that people may walk upon within your lifetime. Project Longshot hands you a space program and asks only one question. How far can your program go?
Rakete
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for ORBITAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
5 thrusters, one rocket. Can you land it safely? Touch anything and you'll die. Play by yourself or with your friends locally, each player controls a thruster. Let the insanity commence!
Launch Window
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for ORBITAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
Launch Window is a single player physics-based automation game where you establish supply chains across an entire solar system using orbital mechanics.
Verse Project
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for ORBITAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with ORBITAL.
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.
Ionic Drive
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for ORBITAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Plan your flight path, execute a perfect flip-and-burn manoeuvre and pray that your hull survives any impact in this space flight simulation/racing game. Can you avoid collision and finish your flight?
RacingSteam ↗INTERASTRA: Planet Survival
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for ORBITAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with ORBITAL.
INTERASTRA is a fully immersive first-person sci-fi survival adventure game set in outer space. Discover unknown planets differing in weather conditions, resources, and various mysteries. Craft necessary equipment, launch, and control space rockets, explore the universe, and survive among the stars.
Deep Space Exploitation
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for ORBITAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
Deep Space Exploitation is a space mining game featuring 2D physics, fully destructible asteroids, and a story of survival under an exploitative corporation. Use your equipment wisely, upgrade your ship, and make difficult decisions to secure your future!
Exo One
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for ORBITAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with ORBITAL.
A strange signal... an alien craft... an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey through space and time.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ORBITAL at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under ORBITAL on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
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.
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under ORBITAL on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under ORBITAL on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under ORBITAL on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with ORBITAL.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under ORBITAL on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under ORBITAL on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
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.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under ORBITAL on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with ORBITAL.
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.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~77% under ORBITAL on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Simulation with ORBITAL.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
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 Adventure with ORBITAL.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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!
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with ORBITAL.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with ORBITAL.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about ORBITAL
- Does ORBITAL run on Steam Deck?
- ORBITAL 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 ORBITAL cost?
- ORBITAL is listed on Steam at 8.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ORBITAL?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ORBITAL are Project Longshot, Rakete, Launch Window.
- Who developed ORBITAL?
- ORBITAL was developed by Night Sky Dogs.
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 ORBITAL.
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