Games like Exotic Matter
Below are 12 hand-picked alternatives to Exotic Matter 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 Exotic Matter 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, cheaper alternatives. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Exotic Matter: A blend of Metroidvania adventure and procedural survival game, in Exotic Matter you will explore, craft, fight, solve puzzles and survive. As the sole survivor of a last-ditch expedition to an alien planet, your duty is to find a powerful alien material that could save Earth from destruction.
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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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Astral Terra
Top pick for Exotic Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Exotic Matter.
Explore, Adventure, Craft, Build, Survive. How will you shape your world? Astral Terra is a Smooth Voxel, Procedurally Generated Open World game with RPG and Survival Elements!
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TUG
Second-strongest match for Exotic Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Exotic Matter.
While we get closer to the release of TUG ver 2.0, we will be taking the project down from steam. Thank you to everyone that has helped us in play and testing for ver 1.0.
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Block Story™
Third-strongest match for Exotic Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Exotic Matter.
There isn’t much better than a wide open game world in which you have essentially no limits and can alter the very landscape in which you play – that is, unless you add dragons, of course…
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Boundless
Ranked #4 for Exotic Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Exotic Matter.
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
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Total Miner
Ranked #5 for Exotic Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Exotic Matter.
Total Miner is an open world voxel sandbox game. It is primarily designed for creative RPG game builders, but also has two action/adventure style game modes where you can just jump in and play.
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FortressCraft Evolved!
Ranked #6 for Exotic Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Exotic Matter.
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
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Craftopia
Ranked #7 for Exotic Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Exotic Matter.
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
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Goliath
Ranked #8 for Exotic Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Exotic Matter.
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!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Exotic Matter at current Steam store prices.
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Astral Terra
Priced ~50% under Exotic Matter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Exotic Matter.
Explore, Adventure, Craft, Build, Survive. How will you shape your world? Astral Terra is a Smooth Voxel, Procedurally Generated Open World game with RPG and Survival Elements!
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Block Story™
Priced ~75% under Exotic Matter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Exotic Matter.
There isn’t much better than a wide open game world in which you have essentially no limits and can alter the very landscape in which you play – that is, unless you add dragons, of course…
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Total Miner
Priced ~85% under Exotic Matter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Exotic Matter.
Total Miner is an open world voxel sandbox game. It is primarily designed for creative RPG game builders, but also has two action/adventure style game modes where you can just jump in and play.
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Goliath
Priced ~40% under Exotic Matter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Exotic Matter.
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!
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Frequently asked about Exotic Matter
- How much does Exotic Matter cost?
- Exotic Matter is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Exotic Matter?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Exotic Matter are Astral Terra, TUG, Block Story™.
- Who developed Exotic Matter?
- Exotic Matter was developed by MobiusCode.
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 Exotic Matter.
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