Games like Space Planet Explorer
If Space Planet Explorer is your kind of game, the closest matches are Celestial Golf, Galactic Simulator2: Stargate and Void Salvage — 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 Space Planet Explorer: One wrong jump ends the mission. Explore 76 real worlds, from Mercury to TRAPPIST-1e, built from NASA data and astronomical research. Manage scarce resources, survey distant worlds, and search for humanity's new home in a science-driven space roguelite where every run could be your last.
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Steam players who put hours into Space Planet Explorer 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.
Celestial Golf
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Top pick for Space Planet Explorer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Planet Explorer.
It’s 2D golf on an astronomical scale. Bite-sized missions will teach you the techniques of real space flight, without having to worry about fuel or crew. Precisely plan orbital trajectories over the moons of Mars, through the rings of Saturn, and boldly go where no golf ball has gone before.
Galactic Simulator2: Stargate
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Second-strongest match for Space Planet Explorer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Planet Explorer.
Galactic Simulator 2: Stargate is a roguelite simulation game inspired by the Fermi Paradox and the Great Filter. Pilot your ship, gather resources, build stargates, and discover other civilizations as you explore an ever-evolving galaxy.
Void Salvage
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Third-strongest match for Space Planet Explorer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Planet Explorer.
Void Salvage is a spaceship simulation with node-based upgrades and choice-driven encounters. Combine weapon augments, modules, drones, and sockets to build a powerful ship. Unlock strategic control-panel actions for auto-combat, then prestige to pursue different paths through the story.
IPS 13: All Signals Lost
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Ranked #4 for Space Planet Explorer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Space Planet Explorer.
Take command of the massive VOD(Vehicle of Destruction) and journey across planet Gaiganthra with your IPS(Inter-Planetary Squad)-13 crew to uncover the mystery of humans there. Be prepared for the worse and ready to fight. Upgrade your VOD, hire new crew factions, to be the ultimate War Machine.
Voyager 2
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Ranked #5 for Space Planet Explorer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Planet Explorer.
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.
Kerbal Space Program
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Ranked #6 for Space Planet Explorer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Space Planet Explorer.
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.
Mars Horizon
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Ranked #7 for Space Planet Explorer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Planet Explorer.
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.
Take On Mars
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Ranked #8 for Space Planet Explorer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Space Planet Explorer.
Take On Mars places you right in the middle of mankind’s most exciting undertaking. Start out in the seat of a rover operator, finish as the first human to have ever set foot on the Red Planet.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Space Planet Explorer.
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 Space Planet Explorer.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Planet Explorer.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Planet Explorer.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Space Planet Explorer.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Planet Explorer.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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 Space Planet Explorer.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Planet Explorer.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Space Planet Explorer
- What games are most similar to Space Planet Explorer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Space Planet Explorer are Celestial Golf, Galactic Simulator2: Stargate, Void Salvage.
- Who developed Space Planet Explorer?
- Space Planet Explorer was developed by ioStudios.
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 Space Planet Explorer.
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