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Games like Galactum Meridian

If Galactum Meridian is your kind of game, the closest matches are Old Stars, Strata and New Stars — 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.

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About Galactum Meridian: Lead humanity's first deep survey beyond Sol in a research-first space strategy game. Explore star systems, investigate worlds, deploy probes, and turn scientific discoveries into strategic power.

2026StrategyIndieSimulationEarly Access17.99 USDWindowsby Hedra Games
Galactum Meridian — Steam game cover

Players who liked Galactum Meridian also play

Steam players who put hours into Galactum Meridian 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.

  1. Old Stars

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Galactum Meridian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Galactum Meridian.

    A fast-paced 4X galaxy you can actually finish. Expand by colonising and besieging rival worlds, wield government powers that bend the rules - freeze enemy fleets, sever hyperlanes, vanish into stealth - and race rivals to claim the galactic core. A grand-strategy empire in an evening, not a month.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  2. Strata

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Galactum Meridian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Galactum Meridian.

    Strata is a scientifically inspired astro-planetary sandbox where you influence the formation and evolution of entire worlds — your worlds. Discover, gather, and build on the surfaces of diverse planets, explore them in depth, and manage your systems beyond the orbital levels.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. New Stars

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Galactum Meridian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Galactum Meridian.

    Expand your own galactic empire across new stars, research technologies, and challenge great alien powers in this immersive 4X grand strategy game. Build interstellar colonies, and starbases to gather more resources. Explore a unique galaxy full of secrets, great perils, and limitless possibilities.

    2026ActionStrategyIndie11.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Solar Imperium

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Galactum Meridian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Galactum Meridian.

    Crash-land on an unknown world and build your settlement hex by hex across its entire globe. Then take it to the stars: a real-time grand strategy game where you zoom from one colony's roads out to a galaxy held by ancient powers that play by the same rules you do.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  5. Mars Horizon

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Galactum Meridian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Galactum Meridian.

    Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Star Trek: Infinite

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Galactum Meridian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Galactum Meridian.

    Star Trek: Infinite is a grand strategy experience that lets you play your own Star Trek story as the leader of one of four major factions in the galaxy. Follow the specially crafted story or blaze your own trail in the first Star Trek grand strategy game.

    2023StrategyAdventureSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. NEBULOUS: Fleet Command

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Galactum Meridian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Galactum Meridian.

    Take command of your hand-tailored fleet of space warships and use realistic radar, electronic warfare, advanced movement controls in 3D space, and precision targeting to outmaneuver and outwit your opponents in a simulation-heavy tactical space game like no other.

    2022StrategySimulationEarly Access29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Kerbal Space Program

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Galactum Meridian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Galactum Meridian.

    In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

    2015IndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Galactum Meridian at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Galactum Meridian on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Galactum Meridian.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~72% under Galactum Meridian on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Galactum Meridian.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Galactum Meridian on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Galactum Meridian.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Galactum Meridian on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Galactum Meridian.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Galactum Meridian on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Galactum Meridian.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~72% under Galactum Meridian on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Galactum Meridian.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~61% under Galactum Meridian on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Galactum Meridian.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~56% under Galactum Meridian on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Galactum Meridian.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Galactum Meridian.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Galactum Meridian.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Galactum Meridian.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Galactum Meridian.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Galactum Meridian.

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Galactum Meridian.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Galactum Meridian

How much does Galactum Meridian cost?
Galactum Meridian is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Galactum Meridian?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Galactum Meridian are Old Stars, Strata, New Stars.
Who developed Galactum Meridian?
Galactum Meridian was developed by Hedra Games.

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 Galactum Meridian.

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