Co-op games like Actually Rocket Science
Below are 8 cooperative Steam games similar to Actually Rocket Science, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. Every pick supports cooperative play — online co-op, LAN co-op, or shared/split-screen — so you can play with friends right out of the box. imho.run pulls from the same Steam category data Valve uses internally, so "Co-op" here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Wayward Beyond
Online Co-op alternative to Actually Rocket Science — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Actually Rocket Science.
A retro-future sandbox RPG set in a frontier era galaxy with procedurally-generated elements. Create, explore, trade, and battle to stake your claim among the stars of a wild galaxy!
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Haul Yeah!
Online Co-op alternative to Actually Rocket Science — playable with friends. 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.
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Asteroid Rodeo
Online Co-op alternative to Actually Rocket Science — playable with friends. 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.
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Space
Online Co-op alternative to Actually Rocket Science — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Actually Rocket Science.
Stranded on a hostile alien world, you must gather resources, craft tools, and automate production to survive. Build a base, fend off deadly wildlife, and uncover ancient secrets in this immersive sci-fi survival adventure. Will you conquer the planet or succumb to its perils?
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Benders In Space
Online Co-op alternative to Actually Rocket Science — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Actually Rocket Science.
Mine the belts, colonize distant worlds, and choose your allies as three rival factions fight over a fractured frontier, then prestige through five starships and lead a joint fleet against the invading Dominion.
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AREA 51
Online Co-op alternative to Actually Rocket Science — playable with friends. 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.
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Nebulis Entity
Online Co-op alternative to Actually Rocket Science — playable with friends. 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.
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Vug: From Caves to Stars
Shared/Split Screen Co-op alternative to Actually Rocket Science — playable with friends. Shares Action and Indie with Actually Rocket Science.
A falling-sand cave flyer wrapped in a galaxy campaign. Fly your lander into fully simulated worlds, mine, fight and burn your way through the terrain, then build up the mothership, cross a living galaxy of eight warring factions and face the nanite swarm. Solo or split-screen co-op.