Games like The Long Drift
If The Long Drift is your kind of game, the closest matches are D.R.I.F.T., Gaia Beyond and Belt Colony — 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.
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Steam players who put hours into The Long Drift 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.
D.R.I.F.T.
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Top pick for The Long Drift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Drift.
A slow, system-driven space sim about contracts, reputation, and survival through careful decision-making, not combat or heroics.
Gaia Beyond
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Long Drift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Drift.
Gaia Beyond is a handcrafted 2D Action-RPG, an exploration mix built around the core features fighting, mining and trading. Your decisions are footprints within a vast non-linear solar system. Forge alliances among numerous factions and develop relations with hundreds of NPCs.
Belt Colony
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Third-strongest match for The Long Drift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Drift.
The year is 2040. You, an ex-sergeant, have signed a contract with a large mining corporation in the Belt. Mine ore, build out your outpost, travel to nearby asteroids and collaborate with other belters.
MEMORY DEALER
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Ranked #4 for The Long Drift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Long Drift.
You are a memory trafficker. Harvest stolen memories from captive minds and sell more and more of them. Don't get addicted to your own supply or you'll lose them forever... A shady, relaxing cyberpunk idle game that lives on your desktop.
Utopia Colony
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Ranked #5 for The Long Drift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Drift.
The year is 2033. You, an ex-Marine with little opportunities left, have signed up with Utopia Arura, a large mining corporation on Mars. They have sent you to a location they have proposed but you have chosen for mining. Everything else is up to you.
Surviving Mars: Pioneer
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Ranked #6 for The Long Drift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with The Long Drift.
The Red Planet is vast, desolate, and utterly indifferent to your survival. Surviving Mars: Pioneer is the first made-for-VR entry in the Surviving Mars universe, challenging you to carve out an existence in one of the most hostile environments imaginable.
Interstellar Rift
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Ranked #7 for The Long Drift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Drift.
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!
Drifter
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Ranked #8 for The Long Drift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Drift.
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.
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 Indie and Simulation with The Long Drift.
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?
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Long Drift.
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!
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 The Long Drift.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Drift.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Drift.
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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Long Drift.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Long Drift.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Paper Lily - 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 The Long Drift.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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- What games are most similar to The Long Drift?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Long Drift are D.R.I.F.T., Gaia Beyond, Belt Colony.
- Who developed The Long Drift?
- The Long Drift was developed by GOGOIO Games.
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 The Long Drift.
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