Games like ORBITAL
If ORBITAL is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rakete, Launch Window and INTERASTRA: Planet Survival — 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.
Rakete
WHY THIS
Top pick 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
Second-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.
INTERASTRA: Planet Survival
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match 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 #4 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 #5 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.
Space Haven
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for ORBITAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for ORBITAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Stardeus
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for ORBITAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
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.
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?
LEGO® Star Wars™ - The Complete Saga
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under ORBITAL on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with ORBITAL.
Kick Some Brick in I through VI! Play through all six Star Wars movies in one videogame! Adding new characters, new levels, new features and for the first time ever, the chance to build and battle your way through a fun Star Wars galaxy on your PC!
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Deep Space Exploitation
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. 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!
Space Haven
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Stardeus
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Frequently asked about ORBITAL
- 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 Rakete, Launch Window, INTERASTRA: Planet Survival.
- 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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