Games like Lightspeed Frontier
If Lightspeed Frontier is your kind of game, the closest matches are Celestial Command, Signs of Life and Star Rangers™ XE — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, contemplative and relaxing. 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.
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Players who liked Lightspeed Frontier also play
Steam players who put hours into Lightspeed Frontier 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.
Celestial Command
WHY THIS
Shares ship building and resource management with Lightspeed Frontier.
Top pick for Lightspeed Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lightspeed Frontier.
Mine asteroids, salvage space debris, design your own small or massive spacecraft using individual functional components, complete missions, and engage in battles against enemies in a vast galaxy with realistic physics based on orbital mechanics or in a classic physics mode.
Signs of Life
WHY THIS
Shares combat, exploration and a relaxing mood with Lightspeed Frontier.
Second-strongest match for Lightspeed Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lightspeed Frontier.
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
Star Rangers™ XE
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation, resource management and a contemplative mood with Lightspeed Frontier.
Third-strongest match for Lightspeed Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lightspeed Frontier.
Explore space and build on other worlds in Star Rangers! Star Rangers is a space exploration and construction game that allows players to build habitats and spacecraft, acquire gear and explore the solar system.
StarMade
WHY THIS
Shares ship building and procedural generation with Lightspeed Frontier.
Ranked #4 for Lightspeed Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lightspeed Frontier.
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Stellar Overload
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Lightspeed Frontier.
Ranked #5 for Lightspeed Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lightspeed Frontier.
Robots invaded the peaceful planet Merx. Go on an adventure to free your world from them. Stellar Overload is a 3D open-world, blocks-based, FPS, adventure game.
Star Vortex
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a contemplative mood with Lightspeed Frontier.
Ranked #6 for Lightspeed Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lightspeed Frontier.
Star Vortex is a fast paced Action-RPG inspired by classics of the genre. Design your ship, fight your way through hostile alien sectors, upgrade as you salvage rare weapons and experiment with different builds until nothing can stand against you.
Starcom: Nexus
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Lightspeed Frontier.
Ranked #7 for Lightspeed Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lightspeed Frontier.
Suddenly thrown into an unknown galaxy, you must explore, fight or befriend aliens and transform your ship from a small survey vessel into a powerful battlecruiser to unravel the mystery of the forces that brought you here and find your way home.
Space Pirates And Zombies 2
WHY THIS
Shares ship building with Lightspeed Frontier.
Ranked #8 for Lightspeed Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lightspeed Frontier.
Design and then improve the ultimate mothership. Explore a persistent living galaxy populated by 200 unique captains that can do everything you can do. Survive the zombie infection and then fight them back. Make allies and start your own faction. Build your empire. Also includes Sandbox Mode.
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Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Lightspeed Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Lightspeed Frontier.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Lightspeed Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Lightspeed Frontier.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Lightspeed Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Lightspeed Frontier.
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.
Privateers
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Lightspeed Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Lightspeed Frontier.
Privateers is a roguelite set in a fantasy nautical world. Players are set free into an archipelago where they can become a heroic navy captain or an evil pirate overlord depending on the choices that they make.
Minecraft Legends
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Lightspeed Frontier.
Reviewers of Lightspeed Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Lightspeed Frontier.
Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!
Privateer Escape
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Lightspeed Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Lightspeed Frontier.
Play as a Privateer, sailing the seas and hunting for treasure while being hunted by Pirates! Prove your worth as you avoid dangerous obstacles, face fearsome foes, take on the terrors of the seas, and show how long you can last!
Avorion
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Lightspeed Frontier.
Reviewers of Lightspeed Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Lightspeed Frontier.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lightspeed Frontier at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Lightspeed Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lightspeed Frontier.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Lightspeed Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Lightspeed Frontier.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Lightspeed Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Lightspeed Frontier.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Lightspeed Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Lightspeed Frontier.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Lightspeed Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Action with Lightspeed Frontier.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Lightspeed Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lightspeed Frontier.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Lightspeed Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lightspeed Frontier.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Lightspeed Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lightspeed Frontier.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Lightspeed Frontier.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Lightspeed Frontier.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Lightspeed Frontier.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lightspeed Frontier.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lightspeed Frontier.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Lightspeed Frontier.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Lightspeed Frontier
- How much does Lightspeed Frontier cost?
- Lightspeed Frontier is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Lightspeed Frontier?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lightspeed Frontier are Celestial Command, Signs of Life, Star Rangers™ XE.
- Who developed Lightspeed Frontier?
- Lightspeed Frontier was developed by Crowdwork Studios and published by Riveted Games.
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