Games like Approaching Infinity
If Approaching Infinity is your kind of game, the closest matches are UnReal World, Cogmind and Terminus: Zombie Survivors — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and retro. 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 Approaching Infinity: Approaching Infinity is a turn-based space RPG in the spirit of the sci-fi classics, with endless progression and exploration. Fight tactical battles or use diplomacy. Seek powerful artifacts. Quest, mine, trade, and craft. Level up forever or attempt 10 victories in hardcore or adventure mode.
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Steam players who put hours into Approaching Infinity 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.
UnReal World
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Approaching Infinity.
Top pick for Approaching Infinity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Approaching Infinity.
The cult classic open-ended wilderness survival roguelike taking place in the ancient North, iron-age Finland. Throughout the years, UnReal World has been praised for its incredible depth, realism, atmos and immersion. Lose yourself in the most intricate, detailed and enchanting iron-age game world.
Cogmind
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Approaching Infinity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Approaching Infinity.
Cogmind is a sci-fi roguelike epic in which you play a robot building yourself from components found or salvaged from other robots. Explore a living, breathing world through turn-based tactical combat, or sneak, hack, and fly your way to victory.
Terminus: Zombie Survivors
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Approaching Infinity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Approaching Infinity.
Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?
Wayward
WHY THIS
Shares permadeath toggle and an atmospheric mood with Approaching Infinity.
Ranked #4 for Approaching Infinity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approaching Infinity.
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
Tales of Maj'Eyal
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Approaching Infinity.
Ranked #5 for Approaching Infinity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approaching Infinity.
Tales of Maj’Eyal is a roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building. Play as one of many unique races and classes in the lore-filled world of Eyal, exploring random dungeons, facing challenging battles, and developing characters with your own tailored mix of abilities and powers.
Quest of Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Approaching Infinity.
Ranked #6 for Approaching Infinity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approaching Infinity.
Quest of Dungeons is a turn based dungeon crawler game featuring a good old 16-bit retro artistic look. By playing as either a Warrior, Wizard, Assassin or Shaman you have to traverse dungeons, defeat enemies and loot everything you can in order to survive.
Sword of the Stars: The Pit
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Approaching Infinity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Approaching Infinity.
A fun, fast, light-hearted, turn-based RPG, where the tradition of old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe!
Golden Krone Hotel
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Approaching Infinity.
Ranked #8 for Approaching Infinity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Approaching Infinity.
Golden Krone Hotel is a gothic horror roguelike. Fight vampires with sunlight or become a vampire yourself and sneak in the shadows. Combines classic turn-based combat with dynamic lighting, an innovative potion system, and fast paced gameplay.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Approaching Infinity
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Star Control III
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Approaching Infinity.
Reviewers of Approaching Infinity cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Approaching Infinity.
The universe is on the brink of destruction. It’s up to you to embark on an epic adventure of strategy and diplomacy to save thousands of worlds from total annihilation. But no pressure, right?
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Approaching Infinity cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
Tales of Maj'Eyal
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Approaching Infinity.
Reviewers of Approaching Infinity cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approaching Infinity.
Tales of Maj’Eyal is a roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building. Play as one of many unique races and classes in the lore-filled world of Eyal, exploring random dungeons, facing challenging battles, and developing characters with your own tailored mix of abilities and powers.
Caves of Qud
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and an atmospheric mood with Approaching Infinity.
Reviewers of Approaching Infinity cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Approaching Infinity.
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
Star Traders: Frontiers
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics with Approaching Infinity.
Reviewers of Approaching Infinity cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Approaching Infinity.
You are the captain of a starship venturing through a massive open universe. Customize your crew and take command at the helm of your very own ship as you explore a galaxy torn apart by internal strife, alien threats, and political intrigue.
Star Control I and II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Approaching Infinity.
Reviewers of Approaching Infinity cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Approaching Infinity.
Explore a vast universe with pulse-pounding action, side-splitting humor, and hair-raising plot twists in these 2 classic space adventure games.
Transcendence
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Approaching Infinity.
Reviewers of Approaching Infinity cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Approaching Infinity.
Explore the farthest reaches of Human Space in this open-world space adventure. Compelled to journey to the Galactic Core by a mysterious hyperintelligence, you must fight your way through dozens of star systems teeming with clashing empires, expansionist AIs, and fearsome xenophobes.
NetHack: Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Approaching Infinity.
Reviewers of Approaching Infinity cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approaching Infinity.
NETHACK: LEGACY is a remastered version of the original NetHack, the deeply rich and complex fantasy D&D roguelike. Hack and slash your way through orcs, dragons, and cockatrices as you explore the perilous procedurally-generated dungeons seeking the Amulet of Yendor.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Approaching Infinity at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Approaching Infinity on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Approaching Infinity.
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 ~63% under Approaching Infinity on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Approaching Infinity.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Approaching Infinity on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approaching Infinity.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Approaching Infinity on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Approaching Infinity.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under Approaching Infinity on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Approaching Infinity.
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 ~41% under Approaching Infinity on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Approaching Infinity.
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 ~63% under Approaching Infinity on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Approaching Infinity.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Approaching Infinity on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Approaching Infinity.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approaching Infinity.
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.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approaching Infinity.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approaching Infinity.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Saihate Station
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approaching Infinity.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approaching Infinity.
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.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approaching Infinity.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Lily's Well
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approaching Infinity.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
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Frequently asked about Approaching Infinity
- Does Approaching Infinity run on Steam Deck?
- Approaching Infinity is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Approaching Infinity cost?
- Approaching Infinity is listed on Steam at 13.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Approaching Infinity?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Approaching Infinity are UnReal World, Cogmind, Terminus: Zombie Survivors.
- Who developed Approaching Infinity?
- Approaching Infinity was developed by IBOL and published by IBOL, IBOLOGY.
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 Approaching Infinity.
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