Games like HELLION
If HELLION is your kind of game, the closest matches are Empyrion - Galactic Survival, Interstellar Rift and Osiris: New Dawn — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, bleak and immersive. 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 →HELLION is a first-person space survival sim released in 2019, built on realistic orbital physics, manual docking, and resource scavenging across derelict ships and stations. The player manages oxygen and fuel, salvages debris, and builds functional bases, with online co-op and PvP letting survivors cooperate or raid one another. The game is free and listed as unsupported on Steam Deck. Around 55% of 1,971 Steam reviews are positive. Players describe the atmosphere as bleak and immersive, and reviewers highlight how the orbital physics and tense manual docking make the loneliness of space feel weighty, with a massive scope built around long, demanding sessions.
About HELLION: After a century in cryosleep you find yourself stranded amidst the ruins of mankind’s first interstellar colony. Explore derelict ships and stations and harvest raw resources in search of air, fuel and other equipment. Or loot and pillage what you need from other survivors. The choice is yours!
Players who liked HELLION also play
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Empyrion - Galactic Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HELLION.
Top pick for HELLION fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with HELLION.
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Interstellar Rift
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HELLION.
Second-strongest match for HELLION fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with HELLION.
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
Osiris: New Dawn
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with HELLION.
Third-strongest match for HELLION fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with HELLION.
Osiris: New Dawn is an unforgiving near future space survival game with a cinematic feel and elements of horror. Play as a Mission Specialist in single or multiplayer to build your planetary base, pilotable vehicles, and controllable drones as you explore a dangerous solar system far from Earth.
Starship EVO
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with HELLION.
Ranked #4 for HELLION fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with HELLION.
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.
Starbase
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with HELLION.
Ranked #5 for HELLION fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with HELLION.
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
SPACERIFT: Arcanum System
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HELLION.
Ranked #6 for HELLION fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with HELLION.
At the sunset of human life on planet Earth, you are a military pilot controlling a space ship, and you find yourself at the very epicenter of the battle in the solar system. You are forced to retreat into the unknown, distant Arcanum system through hyper-jumping.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with HELLION.
Ranked #7 for HELLION fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with HELLION.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with HELLION.
Ranked #8 for HELLION fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with HELLION.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to HELLION
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Tin Can
WHY THIS
Shares environmental hazards and a stressful mood with HELLION.
Reviewers of HELLION cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with HELLION.
You've barely managed to escape your exploding spaceship. Now in an old escape pod, you hurtle through space at the mercy of the cosmos. With no knowledge of the pod’s complex systems, your life depends on a technical manual and your own wits. How long can you survive?
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HELLION.
Reviewers of HELLION cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with HELLION.
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Rebel Galaxy
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HELLION.
Reviewers of HELLION cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with HELLION.
Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with HELLION.
Reviewers of HELLION cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with HELLION.
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.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with HELLION.
Reviewers of HELLION cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with HELLION.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Flight Of Nova
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with HELLION.
Reviewers of HELLION cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with HELLION.
Flight of Nova is a simulator based on newtonian mechanics in which you control spacecraft in the Noren star system. You fly multiple types of spacecraft doing transport and search missions in an environment with realistic aerodynamics and orbital physics.
Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with HELLION.
Reviewers of HELLION cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with HELLION.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with HELLION.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with HELLION.
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?
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 HELLION.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with HELLION.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with HELLION.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with HELLION.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with HELLION.
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Frequently asked about HELLION
- Does HELLION work on Steam Deck?
- HELLION is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- Does HELLION have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — HELLION supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to HELLION?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside HELLION are Empyrion - Galactic Survival, Interstellar Rift, Osiris: New Dawn.
- Who developed HELLION?
- HELLION was developed by Zero Gravity.
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 HELLION.
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