Games like Time Dilation Lab
If Time Dilation Lab is your kind of game, the closest matches are StarbaseSim, Signs and Seasons Explorer and Skyos — 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 Time Dilation Lab: An easy to use, fully adjustable space lab with Einstein's special relativity equations in a three-spacecraft configuration. Play around with time dilation and relativistic Doppler effects in space at your own pace. Multiple viewpoints in 3D, real-time, with data export functionality.
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Steam players who put hours into Time Dilation Lab 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.
StarbaseSim
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Top pick for Time Dilation Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Time Dilation Lab.
Operate the Starship space launch system and learn how to catch a rocket to understand what it takes to colonize Mars in this ever-evolving simulation of SpaceX Starbase Texas.
Signs and Seasons Explorer
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Second-strongest match for Time Dilation Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Time Dilation Lab.
Explore time and space as you learn about astronomy and earn stars to buy overlays for the Earth and Sun and control the passage of time. Soon you will be able to simulate and observe Earth/Sun correspondences from any age and perspective as you use keyboard and mouse controls to fly through space.
Skyos
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Third-strongest match for Time Dilation Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Time Dilation Lab.
SKYOS is a real-time 3D space simulation where Earth, satellites, constellations, weather imagery, and orbital events evolve in sync with the living sky, while cinematic Earth-to-Moon missions unfold through real-time launch windows and orbital transfers.
Voyager 2
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Ranked #4 for Time Dilation Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Time Dilation Lab.
Launch the Voyager space probe to the furthest depths of the Solar System! Use gravity to slingshot around planets and scan, orbit, or land on targets to earn stunning replays of your accomplishments.
Meco Rocket Simulator
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Ranked #5 for Time Dilation Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Time Dilation Lab.
Meco Rocket Simulator is a realistic physics game where you play as an underpaid rocket scientist working for Mecodyne to design and test rocket engines without regard for your safety.
3D Solar System Simulator
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Ranked #6 for Time Dilation Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Time Dilation Lab.
This is a simulation based upon real physics. Its specifically for use with 3D headsets such as the HTC Vive and Oculus quest. It gives you a 3D perspective of how gravity works and interacts on all the bodies in a solar system. You can experiment with creating your own solar system.
Rocket Science
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Ranked #7 for Time Dilation Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Time Dilation Lab.
Take part in a space program. Design spacecrafts and send them off to explore the vast expanses of space. Experience the real scale of the Solar system and the size of its celestial bodies.
Juno: New Origins
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Ranked #8 for Time Dilation Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Time Dilation Lab.
Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Time Dilation Lab at current Steam store prices.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~53% under Time Dilation Lab on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Time Dilation Lab.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
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Priced ~68% under Time Dilation Lab on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Time Dilation Lab.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~68% under Time Dilation Lab on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Time Dilation Lab.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~53% under Time Dilation Lab on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Time Dilation Lab.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
shapez
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Priced ~84% under Time Dilation Lab on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Time Dilation Lab.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Tower Wizard
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Priced ~53% under Time Dilation Lab on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Time Dilation Lab.
Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~68% under Time Dilation Lab on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Time Dilation Lab.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Time Dilation Lab.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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!
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Time Dilation Lab.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Time Dilation Lab.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Time Dilation Lab.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
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Frequently asked about Time Dilation Lab
- How much does Time Dilation Lab cost?
- Time Dilation Lab is listed on Steam at 6.30 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Time Dilation Lab?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Time Dilation Lab are StarbaseSim, Signs and Seasons Explorer, Skyos.
- Who developed Time Dilation Lab?
- Time Dilation Lab was developed by Logan Bier.
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 Time Dilation Lab.
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