Games like Heliodawn
If Heliodawn is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tides of Tethys, Corsair Cove and Stella Nova — 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 Heliodawn: You start with a coal mine, an iron mine, a well, and a farm. You end with rockets flying, colonies on the Moon and Mars, and cargo flowing between every world you've built. An idle incremental game about building humanity's space program from the ground up.
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Steam players who put hours into Heliodawn 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.
Tides of Tethys
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Top pick for Heliodawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heliodawn.
A tactical exploration building game where you explore the uncharted depths of Tethys; scavenging resources and lost technologies, to survive the dangers of the abyss. As the Overseer, lead expeditions of Knights through the dark trenches and the unknown, and help them rebuild their lost Kingdom.
Corsair Cove
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Second-strongest match for Heliodawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Heliodawn.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Stella Nova
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Third-strongest match for Heliodawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heliodawn.
Build modular space stations, manage citizen crews, and master a deep crafting chain in a procedurally generated solar system with real orbital physics. Mine asteroids, smelt alloys, manufacture components, and expand across the planets!
Legacy of the Ark: Beneath the Broken Sky
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Ranked #4 for Heliodawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heliodawn.
Awaken alone at the crash site of a fallen Ark and rebuild from a single handful of scrap. Gather, wake survivors, level them up, send expeditions, chart the deep, and stabilize a broken sky in this cozy, honest idle game. Play at your pace — online or off.
Norland
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Ranked #5 for Heliodawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Heliodawn.
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
CivDle
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Ranked #6 for Heliodawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heliodawn.
A relaxing idle city-builder where a single hut grows into a sprawl of millions. Build production chains, let your civilisation expand while you're away, and Ascend to push the whole world up an order of magnitude.
Hollowspire
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Ranked #7 for Heliodawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heliodawn.
A chill clicker-idle game where you dig, recruit and manage miners, and uncover buried upgrades deep underground.
Whiskerwood
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Ranked #8 for Heliodawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Heliodawn.
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
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Frequently asked about Heliodawn
- Is Heliodawn free to play?
- Yes — Heliodawn is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Heliodawn?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heliodawn are Tides of Tethys, Corsair Cove, Stella Nova.
- Who developed Heliodawn?
- Heliodawn was developed by Civiem LLC.
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 Heliodawn.
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