Games like Perihelion
If Perihelion is your kind of game, the closest matches are Strata, Mars Horizon and shapez 2 - Factory — 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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Players who liked Perihelion also play
Steam players who put hours into Perihelion 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.
Strata
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Top pick for Perihelion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Perihelion.
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.
Mars Horizon
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Second-strongest match for Perihelion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Perihelion.
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.
shapez 2 - Factory
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Third-strongest match for Perihelion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Perihelion.
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Solargene
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Ranked #4 for Perihelion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Perihelion.
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Archean
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Ranked #5 for Perihelion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Perihelion.
Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.
Surviving Mars: Relaunched
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Ranked #6 for Perihelion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Perihelion.
The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.
Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
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Ranked #7 for Perihelion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Perihelion.
Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!
Final Upgrade
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Ranked #8 for Perihelion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Perihelion.
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
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.
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 Indie with Perihelion.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Perihelion.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Perihelion.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Perihelion.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Perihelion.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Perihelion.
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.
The Lab
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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!
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Frequently asked about Perihelion
- What games are most similar to Perihelion?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Perihelion are Strata, Mars Horizon, shapez 2 - Factory.
- Who developed Perihelion?
- Perihelion was developed by Connor Rowland, Christian Temelkoski, XBlueBeam and published by Tritium Softworks.
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 Perihelion.
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