Games like MANIFEST
If MANIFEST is your kind of game, the closest matches are Flightline: Airline Sim, D.R.I.F.T. and ATC: Tower & Ground — 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 MANIFEST: This is a game about the pressure of keeping ships productive. Idle ships bleed money. Late deliveries hurt your reputation. Old hulls develop histories. Captains become known quantities. A quiet ore run can suddenly become a rescue problem, a customs problem, or a piracy problem.
Players who liked MANIFEST also play
Steam players who put hours into MANIFEST 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.
Flightline: Airline Sim
WHY THIS
Top pick for MANIFEST fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with MANIFEST.
Flightline is an airline management sim about building an airline that has to make sense. Set routes, choose aircraft, price seats, and shape a network where passengers route themselves through real markets. Growth is not just drawing lines on a map. It is whether the whole system holds together.
D.R.I.F.T.
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for MANIFEST fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with MANIFEST.
A slow, system-driven space sim about contracts, reputation, and survival through careful decision-making, not combat or heroics.
ATC: Tower & Ground
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for MANIFEST fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with MANIFEST.
Take control of real Mediterranean airports. Start at Palma de Mallorca (LEPA) and manage Tower and Ground operations with real procedures, dynamic weather, and AI traffic. Two modes, zero shortcuts.
Frontier Intelligence
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for MANIFEST fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with MANIFEST.
Captain your ship in a persistent, true-scale Milky Way. Explore, trade, mine, hack, or turn pirate. Outfit your ship, establish stations and planetary structures, and direct MI and programmable AMI systems to keep operations running while you're logged out.
Frontier Pilot Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for MANIFEST fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with MANIFEST.
FPS is a Sci-Fi cargo pilot sim, with an engaging emergent mission-driven storyline, with a real-time economy with free flight and trading, on an alien world to explore. All in customizable upgradeable, well-simulated VTOL craft with real weather, and flight dynamics.
X3: Terran Conflict
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for MANIFEST fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with MANIFEST.
It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!
X: Beyond the Frontier
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for MANIFEST fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with MANIFEST.
The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other worlds, but there was a fault in their programming and they turned and attacked. Forcing us to lay a trap to protect Earth and exiling the Human race to stay on Earth once again.
Service Area Simulator: Prologue
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for MANIFEST fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with MANIFEST.
Start your journey from a small roadside stop and grow it into a massive rest area. Stock shelves, sell fuel, run a restaurant and motel, and keep everything clean and efficient. With the right management, turn a tiny business into a bustling service hub everyone wants to visit!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with MANIFEST.
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Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with MANIFEST.
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.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with MANIFEST.
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.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with MANIFEST.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with MANIFEST.
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!
D1AL-ogue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with MANIFEST.
Become an android repair technician in a cyberpunk city where the sun never rises. Rotate the unique circular puzzle 'D1AL' and merge modules to fix their broken bodies and hearts. Your precise repair is the conversation starter. Turn the dial and listen to their stories.
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Frequently asked about MANIFEST
- What games are most similar to MANIFEST?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside MANIFEST are Flightline: Airline Sim, D.R.I.F.T., ATC: Tower & Ground.
- Who developed MANIFEST?
- MANIFEST was developed by Manifest 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 MANIFEST.
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