Games like Distance Travellers
Below are 16 hand-picked alternatives to Distance Travellers for fans of action, indie, adventure, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Distance Travellers also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, free-to-play picks. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Distance Travellers: Distance Travellers is a single player extraction space simulator, set in the distant future, fight, mine and loot your way around the galaxy. Upgrade your equipment and ship and do your best to survive the barren wastes of the new world.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Leaks In Space
Top pick for Distance Travellers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distance Travellers.
Build your spaceships, craft, survive, fight, and explore sectors full of peril and adventure. With limitless creativity and deadly threats to overcome, Leaks in Space offers adventurers a unique 2D space-sim sandbox experience.
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Frontiers Reach : Battlespace
Second-strongest match for Distance Travellers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Distance Travellers.
Frontiers Reach : Battlespace is a low stress management/idle game set in the Frontiers Reach Universe, here you'll take command of a carrier and participate directly in the fight for control of planets in the frontier worlds.
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Dark Age
Third-strongest match for Distance Travellers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Distance Travellers.
Embark on an electrifying journey through 5 offbeat themed locations that will test your skills. Dark Age promises a different and unique gaming experience.
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Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
Ranked #4 for Distance Travellers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Distance Travellers.
Out of cash, out of luck, out on the fringe. Juno Markev has a killer to tail, a debt to pay, and more trouble headed her way. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw takes place in a greasy, blue-collar world of outlaws, truckers, cops and thieves.
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Android Simulator
Ranked #5 for Distance Travellers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distance Travellers.
Android Simulator is a futuristic FPS game in which you take the role of an android who is in charge of a spaceship colony. Keep a firm hand on the flight route and manage the right water balance for plants, oxygen level, and spacecraft parameters to securely deliver the colonizers.
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Void Crew
Ranked #6 for Distance Travellers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Distance Travellers.
Void Crew is a Chaotic, Co-op Roguelite game for 1 to 6 players: Outfit your spaceship and crew for thrilling quests, brave fierce enemies in Space Battles... and try not to panic!
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The Last Hope
Ranked #7 for Distance Travellers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Distance Travellers.
You’ve made the biggest mistake in history. Now, you're the last hope. Explore the UK, Russia, Germany, Norway, Egypt, USA, Mars, and the Moon. Search for food, face creatures, travel through time, and fight to restore humanity. Survive or perish—your choices shape the future.
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Power of Ten
Ranked #8 for Distance Travellers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Distance Travellers.
Fly a star-fighter against a bloodthirsty armada. Gather weapons, resources, and upgrades to help you push back the relentless assault while protecting the galaxies' civilians!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Distance Travellers.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Distance Travellers.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Distance Travellers.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Distance Travellers.
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?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distance Travellers.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Distance Travellers.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Distance Travellers.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Frequently asked about Distance Travellers
- What games are most similar to Distance Travellers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Distance Travellers are Leaks In Space, Frontiers Reach : Battlespace, Dark Age.
- Who developed Distance Travellers?
- Distance Travellers was developed by RF Games Studio.
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