Rank 01Why this
Also Open World Survival Craft and Crafting, like Phoning Home.
- $29.99 (Price checked Nov 5)
- Deck Verified
- 2018
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The closest matches to Phoning Home: Subnautica, Breathedge, Goliath, Under A New Sun, and Grounded. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
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Under A New Sun
Why this: Also Open World Survival Craft and Nature, like Phoning Home.
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Grounded
Why this: Shares exploration driven progression with Phoning Home.
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Voidtrain
Why this: Shares companion management with Phoning Home.
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- Released: 2017
- Developer: ION LANDS
- Price: Free to play
- 68% of 428 reviews
- Genres: Action, Indie, Adventure
- Metacritic 61
- Platforms: Windows
Players highlight
- Beautiful alien environments to explore
- Companion robot feels like a real friend
- Contemplative exploration over action
- Atmospheric
- Contemplative
- Melancholic
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Why this: Same atmospheric mood as Phoning Home.
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Why this: Also Open World Survival Craft and Crafting, like Phoning Home.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Subnautica
Why this: Also Open World Survival Craft and Crafting, like Phoning Home.
Grounded
Why this: Shares exploration driven progression with Phoning Home.
About Phoning Home
The closest matches to Phoning Home: Subnautica, Breathedge, Goliath, Under A New Sun, and Grounded. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Phoning Home is your kind of game, the closest matches are Subnautica, Breathedge and Goliath — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, contemplative and melancholic, and single out its companion management and crafting upgrades. 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.
About Phoning Home: A tale of survival about two shipwrecked robots - ION and ANI - on their life-defining journey in this unique genre-mix of exploration, puzzle and survival.
Is Phoning Home worth buying?
Players are split
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 68% of 428 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- Free to play.
- People who recommend it had played a median of 11 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics had played a median of 6 h before their negative review.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Beautiful alien environments to explore
- Companion robot feels like a real friend
- Contemplative exploration over action
- Emotional story with tough narrative choices
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“Seemed like a lovely game at first. Then they introduce the concept of permanent corrosion. (at the 2+ hour mark) Removing any joy from exploration and crafting survival. If there was a mode without it, I think I would have enjoyed this…”
“I played up until the point where you have to hunt down the "special" ore. At that point, with no quest markers and no map - no way to tell where to go and no way to tell where you've been, in a land that largely looks the same and has…”
People who play it also play: Subnautica, Breathedge, Goliath
Frequently asked about Phoning Home
Can I run it?
Is Phoning Home free to play?
Yes — Phoning Home is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
What games are most similar to Phoning Home?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Phoning Home are Subnautica, Breathedge, Goliath.
Who developed Phoning Home?
Phoning Home was developed by ION LANDS.