Games like Exo One
If Exo One is your kind of game, the closest matches are Voyager 2, SpaceEngine and Exo One: Prologue — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and hypnotic. 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 →Exo One is a physics-driven exploration game developed by Exbleative and published by Future Friends Games, released in 2021 at $16.99. Players glide across alien worlds using momentum-based movement and gravity manipulation, navigating via beacon systems while each planet presents its own visual and mechanical identity. Reviewers describe the experience as atmospheric and contemplative, highlighting how momentum-based movement creates flow states and how gravity manipulation feels uniquely satisfying. The game features no combat or traditional puzzles, offering pure exploration with subtle storytelling that players find open to interpretation. It runs verified on Steam Deck and holds a 91% positive rating from over 3,200 Steam reviews.
About Exo One: A strange signal... an alien craft... an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey through space and time.
Players who liked Exo One also play
Steam players who put hours into Exo One 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.
Voyager 2
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Top pick for Exo One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Exo One.
Launch the Voyager space probe to the furthest depths of the Solar System! Use gravity to slingshot around planets and scan, orbit, or land on targets to earn stunning replays of your accomplishments.
SpaceEngine
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Exo One.
Second-strongest match for Exo One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Exo One.
The world's first science-based photorealistic interactive 3D planetarium that models the entire Universe, using procedural generation for uncharted areas.
Exo One: Prologue
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Exo One.
Third-strongest match for Exo One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Exo One.
A strange signal... an alien craft... an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey through space and time. This is the prologue for Exo One.
ORBITAL
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Exo One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Exo One.
A space adventure where you solve the mystery of your past, building a thriving civilization across a distant solar system. Fly your rocket as a commander, grow your colonies and build planet upgrades to conquer this unknown space.
Starlight Brigade
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Exo One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Exo One.
Starlight Brigade is a realistic space action-adventure game with a precise combat system and full 6DOF controls. You command the Wayfarer, an aging light cruiser centuries past her time. Plot missile salvos, hunt down your enemy, design munitions, manage your crew, and send engineers to fix damage.
Expedition Astra
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Exo One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Exo One.
Old machines guard silent asteroid sites across the outer solar system. Pilot a 6DoF spacecraft, fight around the rock, dock with old vessels, and touch the asteroid to extract rare materials.
A Million Lightyears Beyond
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Ranked #7 for Exo One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Exo One.
Hunted to the edge of extinction humanity goes through a mysterious ancient gate. Will you go beyond the mysterious gate to discover the secrets of our past and the hope for our future, as we begin our new life in a far off galaxy?
Starship Fighters: Space Combat Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Exo One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Exo One.
Pilot your starship in Starship Fighters, a realistic space combat simulator. Engage in intense battles, explore vast galaxies, and unleash destruction with an arsenal of powerful weapons in a universe teeming with enemies!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Exo One
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The Witness
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Exo One.
Reviewers of Exo One cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Exo One.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
The Stanley Parable
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Exo One.
Reviewers of Exo One cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Exo One.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Exo One cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Exo One.
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.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Exo One.
Reviewers of Exo One cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Exo One.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Superflight
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Exo One.
Reviewers of Exo One cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Exo One.
Superflight is an intense, easy to learn wingsuit game with an infinite number of beautiful procedurally generated maps. A great game to relax for half an hour and chase your latest highscore!
Outer Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Exo One.
Reviewers of Exo One cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Exo One.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Marble Madness
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Exo One cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Exo One.
Marble Madness is a tense and exciting pinball card building game. Using pinball collision as the main gameplay, supplemented by card construction, each game has a different experience, so experience the exhilaration of each collision.
Tiny Kings
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Exo One cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and Casual with Exo One.
Tiny Kings is the whimsical medieval base builder where your dreams of building and managing a pint-sized kingdom come true! Unleash your inner ruler and build your kingdom, manage your citizens' tasks, and dominate the siege to become the ultimate ruler.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Exo One at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Exo One on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Exo One.
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 ~41% under Exo One on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Exo One.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Exo One on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Exo One.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Exo One on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Exo One.
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 ~53% under Exo One on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Exo One.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Exo One.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Exo One.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Exo One.
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 Exo One.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Exo One.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Exo One.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Exo One.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Exo One.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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Frequently asked about Exo One
- Is Exo One verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Exo One is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Exo One cost?
- Exo One is listed on Steam at 16.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Exo One?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Exo One are Voyager 2, SpaceEngine, Exo One: Prologue.
- Who developed Exo One?
- Exo One was developed by Exbleative and published by Future Friends Games, Exbleative.
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