Games like Actually Rocket Science
If Actually Rocket Science is your kind of game, the closest matches are Haul Yeah!, Asteroid Rodeo and AREA 51 — 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 Actually Rocket Science: You and your friends are the crew of the world's cheapest space program, and you have to fly an actual rocket to moons and planets. Reach your destination using a wall of about four hundred switches and buttons. Then upgrade your ship and do it all over again, farther. It's only rocket science. How hard can it be?
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Steam players who put hours into Actually Rocket Science 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.
Haul Yeah!
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Top pick for Actually Rocket Science fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Actually Rocket Science.
Haul Yeah! is a chill co-op space trucking game. Live aboard your ship, grow food, cook meals, deploy drones, repair hull systems, trade on a player-driven market, and haul resources across 15 star systems. Play solo or with up to 3 friends via Steam.
Asteroid Rodeo
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Second-strongest match for Actually Rocket Science fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Actually Rocket Science.
Asteroids are worth trillions. They're also spinning at 200 meters per second. You are a Wrangler—harpoon tumbling rocks, wrestle them to a dead stop with your custom-built ship, and mine them for credits. The pay is good. The survival rate is a conversation people avoid.
AREA 51
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Third-strongest match for Actually Rocket Science fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Actually Rocket Science.
Storm AREA 51 with your friends. Explore the most classified facility on earth. Discover what they've been hiding. Take selfies with aliens and smuggle evidence out before the military arrives.
Stellar Shipyard
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Ranked #4 for Actually Rocket Science fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Actually Rocket Science.
Stellar Shipyard is a space colony sandbox where you design modular ships and stations, and automate resource production using drones and workers. Let the automated systems fly even the most improvised designs. Face rival factions and threats solo, or alongside friends as allies or rivals.
Nebulis Entity
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Ranked #5 for Actually Rocket Science fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Actually Rocket Science.
Nebulis Entity is a first person spaceship crew simulator, with support for online co-op. Maintain your vessel, track down and decode alien signals, and venture as far as you can - while doing your best to prevent your ship from falling apart around you.
Starpath
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Ranked #6 for Actually Rocket Science fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Actually Rocket Science.
Build your starship alone or with friends and explore a seamless universe. Plot a course, burn your thrusters, and chill out in your retro tech ship while you play games and drift through the dangerous vacuum of space. Approach orbit around distant worlds to discover whether we are truly alone.
Surviving Mars: Pioneer
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Ranked #7 for Actually Rocket Science fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Actually Rocket Science.
The Red Planet is vast, desolate, and utterly indifferent to your survival. Surviving Mars: Pioneer is the first made-for-VR entry in the Surviving Mars universe, challenging you to carve out an existence in one of the most hostile environments imaginable.
Interstellar Rift
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Ranked #8 for Actually Rocket Science fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Actually Rocket Science.
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Actually Rocket Science.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Actually Rocket Science.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 Actually Rocket Science.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Actually Rocket Science.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Actually Rocket Science.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Actually Rocket Science.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Actually Rocket Science.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Actually Rocket Science.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Other recommendable Steam games by REAL PLAYERS DEV, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Screamcorp
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Another title from REAL PLAYERS DEV, the studio behind Actually Rocket Science. Shares Action and Indie with Actually Rocket Science.
Bottle up real players' screams with your friends. You work as monsters and step through real players' bedrooms. And if they scream, you win. Every kid is a REAL PLAYER. If they scream into their mic, THEY lose. An asymmetric monster to victim screaming game with voice chat as the lose condition.
lemonade stand
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Another title from REAL PLAYERS DEV, the studio behind Actually Rocket Science. Shares Indie and Adventure with Actually Rocket Science.
You'd think that you and your friends run a lemonade stand in a mall. The lemonade is real. But it's also not what you're selling at all. Real players walk up, some want lemonade. Some want... "lemonade". And they ask in code you have to read, so the cops won't hear. Full proximity voice/text chat.
why would you draw that???
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Another title from REAL PLAYERS DEV, the studio behind Actually Rocket Science. Shares Action and Indie with Actually Rocket Science.
PvP magic spells drawing game. Whatever you draw, becomes real. Use drawn spells to fight each other. There is a magic spells book where you can see over 40+ available spells. You can play teams mode (your friends vs other groups), or solo mode (you vs randoms).
Frequently asked about Actually Rocket Science
- Does Actually Rocket Science have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Actually Rocket Science supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Actually Rocket Science?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Actually Rocket Science are Haul Yeah!, Asteroid Rodeo, AREA 51.
- Who developed Actually Rocket Science?
- Actually Rocket Science was developed by REAL PLAYERS DEV.
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 Actually Rocket Science.
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