Games like Planetes
Below are 8 hand-picked alternatives to Planetes for fans of action, strategy, indie, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Planetes also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Planetes: In Planetes your aim is to survive, create and explore. You will need to harvest resources, in order to construct bases, spacecraft, and items. Protect yourself from other players by creating better spacecraft or a stronger base. Explore space, finding asteroids and planets to land on.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Signs of Life
Top pick for Planetes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planetes.
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.
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Star Rangers™ XE
Second-strongest match for Planetes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planetes.
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.
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ROKH
Third-strongest match for Planetes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Planetes.
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.
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StarMade
Ranked #4 for Planetes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Planetes.
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!
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Dig or Die
Ranked #5 for Planetes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Planetes.
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
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Osiris: New Dawn
Ranked #6 for Planetes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Planetes.
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.
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FortressCraft Evolved!
Ranked #7 for Planetes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Planetes.
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
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BadLads
Ranked #8 for Planetes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Planetes.
BadLads is a neo-noir multiplayer roleplay game centered around each player having their own job. Cities are ruled by President. Civilians are assaulted by Gangs and protected by Police. Adventure, collect, craft, base build, gamble, socialize, overthrow, customize yourself and your belongings.
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Frequently asked about Planetes
- How much does Planetes cost?
- Planetes is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Planetes have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Planetes supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Planetes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Planetes are Signs of Life, Star Rangers™ XE, ROKH.
- Who developed Planetes?
- Planetes was developed by New Orbit Games.
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 Planetes.
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