Games like Zenith Expanse
If Zenith Expanse is your kind of game, the closest matches are Starship Colony, Generation Ship and Space Haven — 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 Zenith Expanse: Command a damaged scout ship in a living space colony survival sim. Wake your crew from cryostasis, secure water and food, build fragile settlements, trade or smuggle between factions, and survive the stories that emerge.
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Steam players who put hours into Zenith Expanse 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.
Starship Colony
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Top pick for Zenith Expanse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zenith Expanse.
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Generation Ship
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Second-strongest match for Zenith Expanse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Zenith Expanse.
As the AI responsible for a Generation Ship, you are humanity's last hope. Build efficient raw material cycles and help your crew in a realistic real-time simulation to survive the challenges of space on their long journey to a new home!
Space Haven
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Third-strongest match for Zenith Expanse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zenith Expanse.
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
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Ranked #4 for Zenith Expanse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Zenith Expanse.
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.
SpaceSlog
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Ranked #5 for Zenith Expanse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zenith Expanse.
Build your spaceship, manage your crew, and explore the cosmos whilst trying to keep your crew alive and your ship fully functioning. This game features simulated ship systems and a lived in universe which creates a challenging, unique and unforgettable experience with every playthrough.
Stardeus
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Ranked #6 for Zenith Expanse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zenith Expanse.
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.
SpaceCraft
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Ranked #7 for Zenith Expanse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Zenith Expanse.
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
The Crust
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Ranked #8 for Zenith Expanse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Zenith Expanse.
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Zenith Expanse.
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ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Zenith Expanse.
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missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Zenith Expanse.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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 Zenith Expanse.
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.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Zenith Expanse.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Zenith Expanse.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Zenith Expanse.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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Frequently asked about Zenith Expanse
- What games are most similar to Zenith Expanse?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Zenith Expanse are Starship Colony, Generation Ship, Space Haven.
- Who developed Zenith Expanse?
- Zenith Expanse was developed by Glitched Phoenix Studios.
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 Zenith Expanse.
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