Games like Shortest Trip to Earth
If Shortest Trip to Earth is your kind of game, the closest matches are Void War, Space Rogue and Out There: Oceans of Time — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and stressful. 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 Shortest Trip to Earth: Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.
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Steam players who put hours into Shortest Trip to Earth 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.
Void War
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Top pick for Shortest Trip to Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.
Space Rogue
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Second-strongest match for Shortest Trip to Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Take on the role of a spaceship captain. Explore new worlds, and engage in intense ship-to-ship battles. Develop unique battle tactics, upgrade your ship, and recruit crew members as you fight for peace or piracy.
Out There: Oceans of Time
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Third-strongest match for Shortest Trip to Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Out There: Oceans of Time is a space exploration game that puts you at the helm of an interstellar mission of discovery spanning a vast and vibrant cosmos.
EVERSPACE™
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Shortest Trip to Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shortest Trip to Earth.
EVERSPACE™ combines fast-paced combat with roguelike elements, great visuals and a captivating story. It takes you on a challenging journey through an ever-changing, beautifully crafted universe full of surprises. Shoot, craft and loot your way to victory while the odds are stacked against you.
Trigon: Space Story
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Ranked #5 for Shortest Trip to Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Trigon: Space Story sees you take command of your very own spaceship. Carry out tactical battles, defend your vessel against space pirates, and escape from enemy territory. On your voyages, you’ll face a slew of tricky decisions in your quest to uncover the mystery of the galaxy.
Out There: Ω Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Ranked #6 for Shortest Trip to Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Out There is an award-winning space exploration game blending roguelike, resource management and interactive fiction.
Astronaut: The Best
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Ranked #7 for Shortest Trip to Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
Reality Break
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Ranked #8 for Shortest Trip to Earth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Rewrite the universe! Break reality to change your fate, and use your powers to stop sinister forces from altering existence itself. Discover the origin of your new abilities in a fast-paced ARPG Loot Collection Roguelite where you will bend, break, and change the laws of the universe!
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Out There: Ω Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Reviewers of Shortest Trip to Earth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Out There is an award-winning space exploration game blending roguelike, resource management and interactive fiction.
Void War
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Reviewers of Shortest Trip to Earth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.
Convoy
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Reviewers of Shortest Trip to Earth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Convoy is a tactical roguelike-like inspired by Mad Max and FTL in which you cross a wasteland in search of parts for your broken ship. Presented in pixel art and set in a future post-apocalyptic setting, Convoy is a squad based tactical combat roguelike-like in its core.
Breachway
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Reviewers of Shortest Trip to Earth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Explore the galaxy in this deckbuilding, sci-fi roguelike where ship upgrades and crew management are key to your survival. Optimize resource generation, engage in intense turn-based battles, and take on ever-growing threats as you seek out The Signal.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shortest Trip to Earth at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under Shortest Trip to Earth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Shortest Trip to Earth.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Shortest Trip to Earth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Shortest Trip to Earth.
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?
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Shortest Trip to Earth on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shortest Trip to Earth.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Shortest Trip to Earth on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Shortest Trip to Earth on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Shortest Trip to Earth.
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.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Shortest Trip to Earth on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Shortest Trip to Earth on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
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 Shortest Trip to Earth.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Shortest Trip to Earth.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shortest Trip to Earth.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shortest Trip to Earth.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Shortest Trip to Earth.
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.
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 Shortest Trip to Earth.
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.
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!
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Frequently asked about Shortest Trip to Earth
- Does Shortest Trip to Earth run on Steam Deck?
- Shortest Trip to Earth 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 Shortest Trip to Earth cost?
- Shortest Trip to Earth is listed on Steam at 25.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shortest Trip to Earth?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shortest Trip to Earth are Void War, Space Rogue, Out There: Oceans of Time.
- Who developed Shortest Trip to Earth?
- Shortest Trip to Earth was developed by Interactive Fate.
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 Shortest Trip to Earth.
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