Games like Cosmic Ascent
If Cosmic Ascent is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stellar Shipyard, Benders In Space and Astra Industria — 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 Cosmic Ascent: Build and expand an orbital station in this idle/incremental space colony sim. Manage crew, resources, refinery chains, research and ship expeditions as you progress from Earth orbit toward new planets.
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Steam players who put hours into Cosmic Ascent 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.
Stellar Shipyard
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Top pick for Cosmic Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cosmic Ascent.
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.
Benders In Space
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Second-strongest match for Cosmic Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cosmic Ascent.
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.
Astra Industria
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Third-strongest match for Cosmic Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cosmic Ascent.
Astra Industria is a sci-fi factory builder set on colossal player-constructed space megastructures with the addictive growth of incremental games. Extract resources, craft advanced components, and automate deep-space production through a vast tech tree.
MORS
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Ranked #4 for Cosmic Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cosmic Ascent.
Build an automated factory on a true-scale Mars streamed from real NASA terrain. Mine, smelt and belt resources, run trains between outposts, master chemistry, and grow from a lone lander into a planet-spanning industry while the real Martian weather does its worst.
Industronaut
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Ranked #5 for Cosmic Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cosmic Ascent.
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
F.A.R.M.S.: Chill Factory
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Ranked #6 for Cosmic Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cosmic Ascent.
F.A.R.M.S.: Chill Factory is a relaxed automation sim where you build at your own pace. Design complex lines with the intuitive Link System and Relays. Unlock new tech via the Tech Tree, boost production with your clicks, and manufacture everything from iron to sushi in your ultimate factory!
Hexfactory
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Ranked #7 for Cosmic Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cosmic Ascent.
Build cities and factories in an infinite Hex World. Explore more tiles. Balance your city's production and consumption, attract more citizens of different classes, research new technologies and build more factories and cities.
Nightwater
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Ranked #8 for Cosmic Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cosmic Ascent.
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Cosmic Ascent.
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?
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cosmic Ascent.
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!
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 Cosmic Ascent.
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.
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 Cosmic Ascent.
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!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cosmic Ascent.
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 Indie and Simulation with Cosmic Ascent.
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!
Silly Linguine Cat Simulator Deluxe Online
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cosmic Ascent.
Silly Linguine Cat Simulator Deluxe Online is a clicker game where progression is replaced with gambling, where the goal is simply to collect the rarest silly linguine cats.
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Frequently asked about Cosmic Ascent
- What games are most similar to Cosmic Ascent?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cosmic Ascent are Stellar Shipyard, Benders In Space, Astra Industria.
- Who developed Cosmic Ascent?
- Cosmic Ascent was developed by Leandro Albornoz.
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 Cosmic Ascent.
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