Games like Neon Planet
If Neon Planet is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Ranchers, My Time at Sandrock and Stardew Valley — 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 Neon Planet: Build a life on a neon-lit alien planet. Farm, fish, cook, craft, decorate your home. Mine 100 floors deep, climb a combat spire, win at the casino. Solo or with up to 24 friends in a player-driven economy.
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Steam players who put hours into Neon Planet 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.
The Ranchers
WHY THIS
Top pick for Neon Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Planet.
The Ranchers is an open world country-life sim for 1-4 players. Raise animals, grow tasty crops, craft helpful tools and build your dream house. Explore the open world and earn the villagers' respect and esteem.
My Time at Sandrock
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Neon Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Planet.
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Neon Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Neon Planet.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Luma Island
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Neon Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Planet.
Get ready to explore, farm, fish, mine, craft, and raise magical Lumas as you solve puzzles and embark on quests across Luma Island. Play solo, or team up with friends in 1-4 player online co-op. Choose relaxing Cozy, challenging Adventure, or epic Hero mode to match your mood and playstyle.
Little-Known Galaxy
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Neon Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Planet.
Join Space Alliance as a new captain-in-training and work with your crew to solve the mysteries of an ancient relic found on the Grey Planet. Little-Known Galaxy is a cozy single-player RPG space adventure full of friendly characters, exploration, crafting, and farming.
Core Keeper
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Neon Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Planet.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Cornucopia®
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Neon Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Planet.
Stardew Valley meets Paper Mario in the coziest farming RPG you've never played. Romance 34+ characters, befriend 50+, raise adorable animals, and grow crops using real soil science. No forced bedtime. A handcrafted 2.5D world full of charm, secrets, and the dream life you've been waiting for.
Bellwright
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Neon Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Neon Planet.
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Neon Planet.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Planet.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Neon Planet.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Neon Planet.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Planet.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Neon Planet.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Planet.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Planet.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
My Time at Sandrock
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Planet.
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Neon Planet.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Luma Island
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Planet.
Get ready to explore, farm, fish, mine, craft, and raise magical Lumas as you solve puzzles and embark on quests across Luma Island. Play solo, or team up with friends in 1-4 player online co-op. Choose relaxing Cozy, challenging Adventure, or epic Hero mode to match your mood and playstyle.
Little-Known Galaxy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Planet.
Join Space Alliance as a new captain-in-training and work with your crew to solve the mysteries of an ancient relic found on the Grey Planet. Little-Known Galaxy is a cozy single-player RPG space adventure full of friendly characters, exploration, crafting, and farming.
Core Keeper
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Planet.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Cornucopia®
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neon Planet.
Stardew Valley meets Paper Mario in the coziest farming RPG you've never played. Romance 34+ characters, befriend 50+, raise adorable animals, and grow crops using real soil science. No forced bedtime. A handcrafted 2.5D world full of charm, secrets, and the dream life you've been waiting for.
Frequently asked about Neon Planet
- Does Neon Planet have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Neon Planet supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Neon Planet?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Neon Planet are The Ranchers, My Time at Sandrock, Stardew Valley.
- Who developed Neon Planet?
- Neon Planet was developed by Neon Planet Studio.
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 Neon Planet.
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