Games like Project Longshot
If Project Longshot is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wreckborn, Stellar Shipyard and Spaceflight Simulator 2 — 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 Project Longshot: Launch from a familiar world into a 1:1 scale solar system of beautiful, unforgiving planets. Colonise, mine, and explore real places that people may walk upon within your lifetime. Project Longshot hands you a space program and asks only one question. How far can your program go?
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Steam players who put hours into Project Longshot 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.
Wreckborn
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Top pick for Project Longshot fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project Longshot.
Cleanse the system of pirates, destroy their bases and free the captives. On the asteroids, build a base, mining colonies, explore asteroids and extract resources needed for survival. Develop buildings, build defenses and turn the asteroid into a fortress.
Stellar Shipyard
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Second-strongest match for Project Longshot fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Project Longshot.
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.
Spaceflight Simulator 2
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Third-strongest match for Project Longshot fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project Longshot.
Build rockets and fly them around the Solar System in this realistic aerospace sandbox. Attempt landings, build space stations, drive rovers, perform spacewalks, explore alien worlds, and get your crew home safe.
Verse Project
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Ranked #4 for Project Longshot fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Project Longshot.
In this multiplayer game you have to explore the Solar System in real scale. Control spaceships of the near future, explore planets, moons and asteroids, mine resources, fight for space domination and build the future of the universe.
9.8
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Ranked #5 for Project Longshot fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project Longshot.
A 2D space agency simulator where every object follows the same orbital physics. Land on moons, build colonies, deploy satellites, and reshape entire planetary systems. Deorbit a moon if you want.
SpaceCraft
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Ranked #6 for Project Longshot fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Project Longshot.
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Kerbal Space Program
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Ranked #7 for Project Longshot fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project Longshot.
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.
Avorion
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Ranked #8 for Project Longshot fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project Longshot.
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Project Longshot.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Project Longshot.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Project Longshot.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project Longshot.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Project Longshot.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Project Longshot.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Project Longshot.
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!
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Frequently asked about Project Longshot
- What games are most similar to Project Longshot?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Project Longshot are Wreckborn, Stellar Shipyard, Spaceflight Simulator 2.
- Who developed Project Longshot?
- Project Longshot was developed by LongshotWorks.
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 Project Longshot.
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