Games like Mercury Fallen
If Mercury Fallen is your kind of game, the closest matches are ExoColony: Planet Survival, Colonization Simulator and Total Factory — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and contemplative. 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 Mercury Fallen: A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.
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Steam players who put hours into Mercury Fallen 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.
ExoColony: Planet Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mercury Fallen.
Top pick for Mercury Fallen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mercury Fallen.
Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply. Maintain a breathable atmosphere, tackle pollution, and refine materials to build essential structures. Terraform planet and build ecosystem to make it your new home.
Colonization Simulator
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Mercury Fallen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mercury Fallen.
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Total Factory
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Mercury Fallen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mercury Fallen.
You are a robot with unrealistically advanced artificial intelligence on a previously unknown planet, people created you for one single purpose - to ensure the automatic production of the necessary resources and their dispatch. It would seem that what could go wrong?
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Mercury Fallen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mercury Fallen.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mercury Fallen.
Ranked #5 for Mercury Fallen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mercury Fallen.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Seeds of Resilience
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Mercury Fallen.
Ranked #6 for Mercury Fallen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mercury Fallen.
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mercury Fallen.
Ranked #7 for Mercury Fallen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mercury Fallen.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Settlements Rising
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Mercury Fallen.
Ranked #8 for Mercury Fallen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mercury Fallen.
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Mercury Fallen
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RimWorld
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Mercury Fallen cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mercury Fallen.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Mercury Fallen.
Reviewers of Mercury Fallen cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mercury Fallen.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Stranded: Alien Dawn
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mercury Fallen.
Reviewers of Mercury Fallen cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mercury Fallen.
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mercury Fallen.
Reviewers of Mercury Fallen cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mercury Fallen.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mercury Fallen at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Mercury Fallen on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mercury Fallen.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Mercury Fallen on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mercury Fallen.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Mercury Fallen on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mercury Fallen.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Mercury Fallen on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mercury Fallen.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Mercury Fallen on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mercury Fallen.
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 ~68% under Mercury Fallen on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mercury Fallen.
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?
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 Indie with Mercury Fallen.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mercury Fallen.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mercury Fallen.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Mercury Fallen.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mercury Fallen.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mercury Fallen.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Mercury Fallen.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
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Frequently asked about Mercury Fallen
- Does Mercury Fallen run on Steam Deck?
- Mercury Fallen 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 Mercury Fallen cost?
- Mercury Fallen is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Mercury Fallen?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mercury Fallen are ExoColony: Planet Survival, Colonization Simulator, Total Factory.
- Who developed Mercury Fallen?
- Mercury Fallen was developed by Nitrous Butterfly and published by indie.io.
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