Games like Penkura
If Penkura is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stoneguard, Last Hope on Earth and Heat Death: Survival Train — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative 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 →About Penkura: Embark on an odyssey to a distant alien world through an ancient singularity. Establish your base, engineer indispensable bots, create cutting-edge equipment, and unravel the mysteries of civilizations lost in time. Welcome to a universe where the mind has defeated death.
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Steam players who put hours into Penkura 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.
Stoneguard
WHY THIS
Top pick for Penkura fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Penkura.
To protect the magical Lifestone, you must strategise, manage and build a fortified settlement. Lead your fellow survivors into battle against waves of nocturnal monsters who wish to take this precious Lifestone from your world.
Last Hope on Earth
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Penkura fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Penkura.
An single/multiplayer game of survival in a desolated post-war future world. A group of clone challenges the dangers of a forbidden Earth trying to survive against monsters made of pure radiation.
Heat Death: Survival Train
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penkura.
Third-strongest match for Penkura fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Penkura.
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Survivalist: Invisible Strain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penkura.
Ranked #4 for Penkura fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Penkura.
It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.
Godsworn
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penkura.
Ranked #5 for Penkura fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Penkura.
Godsworn is a classic mythological RTS. Experience an epic fantasy retelling of the Baltic Crusades, where pagan gods and their tribes clash against crusaders and armies of heaven. Choose a divine hero, rally worshippers alongside mythical creatures, and smite the unworthy!
Nightingale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penkura.
Ranked #6 for Penkura fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Penkura.
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Shares resource automation and an atmospheric mood with Penkura.
Ranked #7 for Penkura fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Penkura.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Penkura.
Ranked #8 for Penkura fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Penkura.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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System Shock
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penkura.
Reviewers of Penkura cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Penkura.
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
SOMA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penkura.
Reviewers of Penkura cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Penkura.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penkura.
Reviewers of Penkura cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penkura.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
DOOM
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Penkura.
Reviewers of Penkura cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Penkura.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
The Planet Crafter
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Penkura cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Penkura.
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Half-Life
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penkura.
Reviewers of Penkura cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Penkura.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
Eden Crafters
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Penkura.
Reviewers of Penkura cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Penkura.
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Penkura.
Reviewers of Penkura cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Penkura.
The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Penkura at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Penkura on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Penkura.
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 ~64% under Penkura on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Penkura.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Penkura on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Penkura.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Penkura on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Penkura.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Penkura on Steam right now. Shares Action with Penkura.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Penkura on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Penkura.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Penkura on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Penkura.
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 ~43% under Penkura on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Penkura.
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...
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 Penkura.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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!
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penkura.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Penkura.
『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.
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Penkura.
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.
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Penkura.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Penkura.
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.
Wires And Whiskers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Penkura.
Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.
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Frequently asked about Penkura
- How much does Penkura cost?
- Penkura is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Penkura?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Penkura are Stoneguard, Last Hope on Earth, Heat Death: Survival Train.
- Who developed Penkura?
- Penkura was developed by LionsArt.
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