Games like Unknown Horizons
If Unknown Horizons is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stardust Origins, Naev and Rebel Galaxy — 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 Unknown Horizons: Unknown Horizons is a retro styled top-down space exploration adventure where you will meet new alien races, learn their secrets and build their trust to get their help to find a way home.
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Steam players who put hours into Unknown Horizons 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.
Stardust Origins
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Top pick for Unknown Horizons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Unknown Horizons.
You are a pilot, seeking revenge on your deceitful father who threw you into unknown space. Can you find your way back and get revenge? Experience a mix of 2D topdown space adventure and explore planets to discover quests, negotiate trades, mine, hunt and survive in an expanding universe.
Naev
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Second-strongest match for Unknown Horizons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Unknown Horizons.
Naev is a game about space exploration, trade and combat. Players travel the galaxy and earn money by trading, fighting and performing missions.
Rebel Galaxy
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Third-strongest match for Unknown Horizons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Unknown Horizons.
Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.
Ostranauts
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Ranked #4 for Unknown Horizons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Unknown Horizons.
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
Gaia Beyond
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Ranked #5 for Unknown Horizons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Unknown Horizons.
Gaia Beyond is a handcrafted 2D Action-RPG, an exploration mix built around the core features fighting, mining and trading. Your decisions are footprints within a vast non-linear solar system. Forge alliances among numerous factions and develop relations with hundreds of NPCs.
Void Sols
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Ranked #6 for Unknown Horizons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Unknown Horizons.
Abstract ruins. Hostile shapes. No escape but forward... Death isn’t the end as you know it. Here, it’s how you grow! Each defeat teaches you more as you rise again to defeat foes with stolen blades and bows. Pushing through a broken world warped by cruelty and shadows. Welcome. This is Void Sols.
PULSAR: Lost Colony
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Ranked #7 for Unknown Horizons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Unknown Horizons.
The co-op open-world space sim where everyone has a role! Pilot the ship. Reroute power. Launch nukes. Explore alien planets. Research new talents. Work together to find the Lost Colony! ...or just deliver some biscuits
Starpoint Gemini 2
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Ranked #8 for Unknown Horizons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Unknown Horizons.
Captain your own space ship and roam the galaxy in 3D in this tactical space simulator with tons of RPG depth ! Space has never looked so inviting - but images can betray...It has been two years since the end of the second Gemini war, the situation in the wartorn system is further from resolution than ever.
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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 Adventure with Unknown Horizons.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Unknown Horizons.
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Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Unknown Horizons.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Unknown Horizons.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and RPG with Unknown Horizons.
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.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Unknown Horizons.
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Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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Frequently asked about Unknown Horizons
- What games are most similar to Unknown Horizons?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Unknown Horizons are Stardust Origins, Naev, Rebel Galaxy.
- Who developed Unknown Horizons?
- Unknown Horizons was developed by Ellitopia Gaming.
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 Unknown Horizons.
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