Games like Wayward Cosmos
If Wayward Cosmos is your kind of game, the closest matches are Starship Simulator, DarkHelm and SpaceCraft — 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 Wayward Cosmos: Explore a seed-driven galaxy where every ship, planet, and dungeon is generated at runtime. Dogfight pirate wings, land on 20 kinds of worlds, raid surface sites on foot, and build a fleet from salvaged hulls, solo or in Steam co-op. The same seed rebuilds the same galaxy, every time.
Players who liked Wayward Cosmos also play
Steam players who put hours into Wayward Cosmos 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.
Starship Simulator
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Top pick for Wayward Cosmos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Wayward Cosmos.
Explore a scientifically accurate Milky Way galaxy and discover distant uncharted worlds, while having unrestricted access to every deck of your Magellan Class deep space exploration vessel. Interact with numerous fully simulated ship systems, or simply relax in the bar and watch the stars drift by.
DarkHelm
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Second-strongest match for Wayward Cosmos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Wayward Cosmos.
A co-op starship bridge sim for 6–25 players. Man a station — helm, weapons, sensors, engineering, comms or command — and no one can fly the ship alone. Communicate, coordinate, and survive together.
SpaceCraft
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Third-strongest match for Wayward Cosmos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wayward Cosmos.
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.
Elite Dangerous
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Ranked #4 for Wayward Cosmos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Wayward Cosmos.
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
Kerbal Space Program
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Ranked #5 for Wayward Cosmos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wayward Cosmos.
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.
Starship EVO
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Ranked #6 for Wayward Cosmos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wayward Cosmos.
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
QANGA
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Ranked #7 for Wayward Cosmos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wayward Cosmos.
QANGA: 750 years after humanity's fall, you must survive in a shattered world where Earth itself demands vengeance. Tear through the fabric of space to face the Voss, awaken the ancient civilisation, and dare to challenge the Sanglines, born from the bowels of a world that condemned you.
Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager
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Ranked #8 for Wayward Cosmos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wayward Cosmos.
Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries.
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 Wayward Cosmos.
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?
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 Casual with Wayward Cosmos.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Wayward Cosmos.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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 Wayward Cosmos.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Wayward Cosmos.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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 Wayward Cosmos.
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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Wayward Cosmos.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wayward Cosmos.
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Frequently asked about Wayward Cosmos
- Does Wayward Cosmos have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Wayward Cosmos supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Wayward Cosmos?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Wayward Cosmos are Starship Simulator, DarkHelm, SpaceCraft.
- Who developed Wayward Cosmos?
- Wayward Cosmos was developed by Exploratory Game Studios and published by AlchemicMage, Wolf Developer.
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 Wayward Cosmos.
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