Games like Astraeus
If Astraeus is your kind of game, the closest matches are Expansion VR, Periphery Online and Riftborne — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Astraeus: Astraeus is a VR asteroid mining RTS game that's quick to play, easy to learn, and enormous in scope. Build a mining network from dozens of bases, and watch as hundreds of ships swarm around you.
Players who liked Astraeus also play
Steam players who put hours into Astraeus 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.
Expansion VR
WHY THIS
Top pick for Astraeus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astraeus.
Expansion is a sci-fi Action RTS where deck-building strategy meets fast-paced VR duels — battle AI or challenge real players.
Periphery Online
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Astraeus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astraeus.
A refugee capsule lands on an uninhabited planet. You have to survive, rebuild civilization and, if possible, regain control over the Earth. One big universe, one endless pvp session for all players.
Riftborne
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Astraeus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astraeus.
Riftborne is a classic terminal based, real time, grand strategy game. Construct space ships. Take part in factional warfare. Hire galactic hit-men on your rivals. Raid neighbors for rare resources. Train spies to infiltrate enemy bases for key intel. Grow your empire to dominate the galaxy.
Anno 2205™
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Astraeus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Astraeus.
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
ENDLESS™ Space - Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Astraeus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Astraeus.
ENDLESS™ Space is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS™ Universe, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.
Distance
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Astraeus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Astraeus.
Distance is an atmospheric racing platformer. Fusing futuristic arcade racing with parkour, survive a deadly, mysterious, neon-drenched city by jumping, rotating, and flying.
Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Astraeus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astraeus.
Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.
AI War: Fleet Command
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Astraeus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astraeus.
"You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remaining human settlements are held captive in orbiting bubbles, and the AIs have turned their...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Astraeus at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Astraeus on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Astraeus.
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 Astraeus on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Astraeus.
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 Astraeus on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Astraeus.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Astraeus on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Astraeus.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Astraeus on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astraeus.
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 Astraeus on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astraeus.
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 Astraeus on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astraeus.
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 Astraeus on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Astraeus.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Astraeus.
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!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astraeus.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Astraeus.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Astraeus.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
SCP: Secret Laboratory
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Astraeus.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
Splitgate
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Astraeus.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
Aimlabs
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Astraeus.
Aimlabs is the aim trainer of choice for over 45 Million players, from beginners to esports pros. Our unique aim analysis optimizes your gameplay, targets your weaknesses & builds key skills for any FPS game! Time to warm up with our unlimited scenarios & rank up in-game!
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More from E McNeill
Other recommendable Steam games by E McNeill, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Ironlights
WHY THIS
Another title from E McNeill, the studio behind Astraeus.
Ironlights is a VR dueling game with skillful, fluid melee combat. Parry, block, and strike down your opponents using a variety of physics-based weapons. Test your skills in multiplayer battles, or fight to the top of the league in the huge single-player campaign!
Auralux: Constellations
WHY THIS
Another title from E McNeill, the studio behind Astraeus. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astraeus.
Auralux: Constellations is the awaited sequel to Auralux, the critically acclaimed minimalistic Real Time Strategy game. Explore a dozen new gameplay mechanics through each constellation, one new feature at a time. It's Real-Time Strategy, deconstructed.
Darknet
WHY THIS
Another title from E McNeill, the studio behind Astraeus. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astraeus.
Darknet is a strategy/puzzle game in which you play as an elite hacker in the Net. Plug into cyberspace, using viruses, worms, and exploits to steal the data before your signal gets traced. Includes both VR and non-VR versions.
Tactera
WHY THIS
Another title from E McNeill, the studio behind Astraeus. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astraeus.
Tactera is a Real-Time Strategy game played on a “virtual tabletop”. Comes with VR (Rift/Vive) and non-VR versions! Inside a futuristic war room, a 3D hologram shows two armies on the verge of battle. Build swarms of gunships, tanks, bombers, and other units to strategically outmaneuver the enemy!
Skylight
WHY THIS
Another title from E McNeill, the studio behind Astraeus. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astraeus.
Skylight is a turn-based tactics game of colossal space battles, with VR and non-VR versions. Command nimble squadrons of fighters, specialized frigates, and giant capital ships as you orchestrate your forces toward victory.
IRONSTRIKE
WHY THIS
Another title from E McNeill, the studio behind Astraeus.
IRONSTRIKE is a 4-player co-op roguelike featuring physics-based swordplay, gestural spellcasting, and archery. Wield a sword, bow & arrow, or magic, and customize your build as you fight to rescue the gods of a vibrant fantasy world.
Frequently asked about Astraeus
- How much does Astraeus cost?
- Astraeus is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Astraeus have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Astraeus supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Astraeus?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Astraeus are Expansion VR, Periphery Online, Riftborne.
- Who developed Astraeus?
- Astraeus was developed by E McNeill.
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