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Games like Phantom

If Phantom is your kind of game, the closest matches are Card Survival: Fantasy Forest, Last Oasis and KINGDOMS — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its crafting feels deeply satisfying, atmospheric and bleak. 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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About Phantom: Phantom is a hard sci-fi survival game. It is very different from other survival games; the player is a robot rather than human. At the same time the game has a pure physics-based construction system, which makes survival and fighting become very fun and different.

2017IndieAdventureRPGEarly Access24.99 USDWindowsby Phantomisreal Ltd.
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Steam players who put hours into Phantom 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.

  1. Card Survival: Fantasy Forest

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Phantom.

    Top pick for Phantom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phantom.

    Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is a card-based deep survival simulator and the next installment in the Card Survival Series. Carve yourself a home in a primordial forest that has a will of its own. A day-to-day life simulator in a world where nature reigns with mystery, beauty and sometimes cruelty.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure17.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Last Oasis

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Phantom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phantom.

    Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. KINGDOMS

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Phantom.

    Third-strongest match for Phantom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phantom.

    KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.

    2015ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 我来自江湖 From Jianghu

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Phantom.

    Ranked #4 for Phantom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phantom.

    《我来自江湖》是一款结合武侠、角色扮演、模拟经营多种元素的独立游戏。在游戏中,你需要扮演一个小势力的掌门,带领弟子在开放的江湖里自由探索,发展自己的势力,经营不同产业,在风云诡谲的江湖里生存下去。

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Tinkerlands

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Phantom.

    Ranked #5 for Phantom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phantom.

    Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

    2025ActionStrategyIndie12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. ROKH

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Phantom.

    Ranked #6 for Phantom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phantom.

    Have you got what it takes to survive on Mars? ROKH is a multiplayer survival game featuring scientific realism and extremely deep crafting and building. Make the red planet your sandbox and create a thriving colony.

    2017ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  7. Total Miner

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Phantom.

    Ranked #7 for Phantom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phantom.

    Total Miner is an open world voxel sandbox game. It is primarily designed for creative RPG game builders, but also has two action/adventure style game modes where you can just jump in and play.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Wayward

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Phantom.

    Ranked #8 for Phantom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phantom.

    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.

    2016IndieAdventureSimulation7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Phantom

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. No Man's Sky

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Phantom.

    Reviewers of Phantom cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Phantom.

    No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

    2016ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Surge

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Phantom.

    Reviewers of Phantom cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Phantom.

    Welcome to CREO, the megacorporation saving the world! A catastrophic event has knocked you out during the first day on the job… you wake up equipped with a heavy-grade exoskeleton, in a destroyed section of the complex.

    2017ActionRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Phantom.

    Reviewers of Phantom cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Phantom.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Phantom at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Phantom.

    Priced ~60% under Phantom on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phantom.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Phantom.

    Priced ~80% under Phantom on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Phantom.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Phantom on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phantom.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Phantom on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Phantom.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Phantom on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Phantom.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Phantom on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Phantom.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Phantom on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Phantom.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Phantom on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Phantom.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phantom.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. The Last Sovereign

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phantom.

    Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Unturned

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phantom.

    You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.

    2017ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Fallout Shelter

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Phantom.

    Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.

    2017SimulationRPGFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Darwin Project

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Phantom.

    In Darwin Project, ten inmates must survive the elements, track each other, fight, craft tools, and use their social skills to be the last one standing. It's a unique take on battle royale with a Show Director to influence the match and Spectator Interactions to create a one-of-a-kind game show.

    2020ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. Kingdom: Classic

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Phantom.

    Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Dark Deception

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phantom.

    Death awaits you in Dark Deception, a story-driven first-person horror maze game. There's nowhere to hide & nowhere to catch your breath. Run or die - it's your choice. Trapped in a realm of nightmarish mazes with a mysterious woman, your only hope of survival is to find a way to escape.

    2018ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Endless Sky

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phantom.

    Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.

    2015ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Phantom

How much does Phantom cost?
Phantom is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Phantom?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Phantom are Card Survival: Fantasy Forest, Last Oasis, KINGDOMS.
Who developed Phantom?
Phantom was developed by Phantomisreal Ltd..

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 Phantom.

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