Games like Keplerth
If Keplerth is your kind of game, the closest matches are Necesse, Soulmask and Abiotic Factor — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging 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 →Keplerth is a 2D sci-fi survival sandbox RPG released in 2022 by TARO and published by Gamirror Games, available for $14.99. Set on a hostile alien planet, the game combines base-building, tiered crafting, boss-progression, and inventory management within a procedurally generated open world. A distinctive gene-editing system lets players create unique followers and pets to accompany them through dungeons. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and contemplative, and reviewers highlight the quirky art style and sci-fi premise as standout features. Deep progression systems allow extensive gear and build customization. The game supports online cooperative multiplayer and is marked as Playable on Steam Deck. It holds an 85% positive rating from 1,171 Steam reviews.
About Keplerth: Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
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Necesse
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Keplerth.
Top pick for Keplerth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Keplerth.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Soulmask
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Keplerth.
Second-strongest match for Keplerth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Keplerth.
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Abiotic Factor
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Keplerth.
Third-strongest match for Keplerth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Keplerth.
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
The Riftbreaker
WHY THIS
Shares base building, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Keplerth.
Ranked #4 for Keplerth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Keplerth.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Keplerth.
Ranked #5 for Keplerth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Keplerth.
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!
CryoFall
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Keplerth.
Ranked #6 for Keplerth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Keplerth.
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
Dig or Die
WHY THIS
Shares base building, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Keplerth.
Ranked #7 for Keplerth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Keplerth.
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.
Tinkerlands
WHY THIS
Shares base building, inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Keplerth.
Ranked #8 for Keplerth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Keplerth.
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!
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Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Keplerth.
Reviewers of Keplerth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Keplerth.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Keplerth.
Reviewers of Keplerth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Keplerth.
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.
Necesse
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Keplerth.
Reviewers of Keplerth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Keplerth.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Starbound
WHY THIS
Shares base building, procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Keplerth.
Reviewers of Keplerth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Keplerth.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Keplerth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Keplerth.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Core Keeper
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Keplerth.
Reviewers of Keplerth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Keplerth.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Keplerth at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Keplerth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Keplerth.
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 ~67% under Keplerth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Keplerth.
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 ~47% under Keplerth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Keplerth.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Keplerth on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Keplerth.
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 ~47% under Keplerth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Keplerth.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Keplerth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Keplerth.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Keplerth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Keplerth.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Keplerth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Keplerth.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Keplerth.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Keplerth.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Keplerth.
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 Keplerth.
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?
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 Keplerth.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Keplerth.
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.
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Frequently asked about Keplerth
- Does Keplerth run on Steam Deck?
- Keplerth 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 Keplerth cost?
- Keplerth is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Keplerth have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Keplerth supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Keplerth?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Keplerth are Necesse, Soulmask, Abiotic Factor.
- Who developed Keplerth?
- Keplerth was developed by TARO and published by Gamirror Games.
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