Games like Phoning Home
If Phoning Home is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, Breathedge and Subnautica — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its contemplative exploration over action, atmospheric 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.
Get personalized picks →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.
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Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Phoning Home.
Top pick for Phoning Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Phoning Home.
Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.
Breathedge
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Phoning Home.
Second-strongest match for Phoning Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Phoning Home.
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoning Home.
Third-strongest match for Phoning Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phoning Home.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoning Home.
Ranked #4 for Phoning Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Phoning Home.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Crashlands
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Phoning Home.
Ranked #5 for Phoning Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Phoning Home.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Population Zero
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoning Home.
Ranked #6 for Phoning Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Phoning Home.
Survival on Kepler is a race against time. Make the most of the remaining 168 hours or get turned into an unworldly being by the Sphere. Complete quests to help NPCs, explore the diverse landscape, survive wildlife and other players. Uncover Kepler’s mysteries and your mission’s true goal.
Goliath
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoning Home.
Ranked #7 for Phoning Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Phoning Home.
Welcome to a mysterious world filled with strange creatures, giant monsters and warring factions. You won't last long here on your own. Fortunately, you know how to build giant robots! Find the plans, gather the resources, climb inside your giant robotic creation and start punching monsters in the face!
The Fifth Day
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoning Home.
Ranked #8 for Phoning Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Phoning Home.
The Fifth Day is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in the time after mankind's extinction to the machines that it created. Your role, as one of these machines, is to survive in the hostile world left behind by man.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Phoning Home
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Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoning Home.
Reviewers of Phoning Home cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phoning Home.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoning Home.
Reviewers of Phoning Home cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Phoning Home.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Near Death
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoning Home.
Reviewers of Phoning Home cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Phoning Home.
Stranded at an abandoned Antarctic research base with no hope of rescue, you must battle a deadly blizzard in a desperate fight to find your way home.
Disney•Pixar WALL-E
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoning Home.
Reviewers of Phoning Home cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Phoning Home.
Based on the 2008 computer animated film from Pixar Animation Studios, the video game version of WALL-E involves playing as the lonely robot as he navigates a trash-tainted world and begins an unlikely trek across the cosmos.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Phoning Home cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Phoning Home.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Turok
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Phoning Home cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Phoning Home.
A world where time has no meaning - and evil knows no bounds. Torn from a world long gone, the time traveling warrior Turok has found himself thrust into a savage land torn by conflict.
Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoning Home.
Reviewers of Phoning Home cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phoning Home.
Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality smashes together the absolute VR chaos of the award-winning Job Simulator with the ridiculous, all-out, take-no-prisoners comedy of Rick and Morty.
Outer Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoning Home.
Reviewers of Phoning Home cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Phoning Home.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoning Home.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phoning Home.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phoning Home.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Phoning Home.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Crashlands
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Phoning Home.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Phoning Home.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Frequently asked about Phoning Home
- 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 Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, Breathedge, Subnautica.
- Who developed Phoning Home?
- Phoning Home was developed by ION LANDS.
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 Phoning Home.
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