Games like Juno: New Origins
If Juno: New Origins is your kind of game, the closest matches are SpaceEngine, Rocket Science and Archean — 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 →Juno: New Origins is a space simulation sandbox released in 2023 by Jundroo, LLC at $19.99. Players design and construct rockets, aircraft, boats, and vehicles using a fully procedural part customization system, then automate their creations using the visual programming language Vizzy. The simulation employs realistic physics across procedurally generated star systems and planetary bodies. Players describe the atmosphere as contemplative and immersive, with reviewers highlighting the vast scope of procedurally generated star systems and planets to explore. The game runs smoothly on modest hardware, making this challenging and time-intensive sandbox accessible to simulation enthusiasts who enjoy building and programming their own creations. The game holds an 89 percent positive rating from 1983 Steam reviews and supports Steam Deck playability.
About Juno: New Origins: Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.
Players who liked Juno: New Origins also play
Steam players who put hours into Juno: New Origins 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.
SpaceEngine
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Juno: New Origins.
Top pick for Juno: New Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Juno: New Origins.
The world's first science-based photorealistic interactive 3D planetarium that models the entire Universe, using procedural generation for uncharted areas.
Rocket Science
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Juno: New Origins.
Second-strongest match for Juno: New Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Juno: New Origins.
Take part in a space program. Design spacecrafts and send them off to explore the vast expanses of space. Experience the real scale of the Solar system and the size of its celestial bodies.
Archean
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Juno: New Origins.
Third-strongest match for Juno: New Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Juno: New Origins.
Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.
Meco Rocket Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Juno: New Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Juno: New Origins.
Meco Rocket Simulator is a realistic physics game where you play as an underpaid rocket scientist working for Mecodyne to design and test rocket engines without regard for your safety.
Rocket Inc
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Juno: New Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Juno: New Origins.
Help build mankind's last magnificent structure in this game where you carry out transport missions between planets in the solar system. Build your company and prepare to take off! Earn humankind's respect with more missions.
Enter The Moon
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Juno: New Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Juno: New Origins.
Space simulation moon game. Explore the moon, mars, venus and mercury in breathtaking real-time 3D. Explore their geological aspects. Battle against spaceships or a secret lunar base. Enter the ISS. Measure the moon. And get in the cockpit.
I Fetch Rocks
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Juno: New Origins.
Ranked #7 for Juno: New Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Juno: New Origins.
Embark on your asteroid hauling career with Veritago Fortana. Start with a basic ship and earn credits to upgrade, customise and repair as you try to fulfil larger and harder contracts. Built exclusively for VR, use your own hands to build, wire and fly using 100s of interconnecting components.
3D Solar System Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Juno: New Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Juno: New Origins.
This is a simulation based upon real physics. Its specifically for use with 3D headsets such as the HTC Vive and Oculus quest. It gives you a 3D perspective of how gravity works and interacts on all the bodies in a solar system. You can experiment with creating your own solar system.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Juno: New Origins at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Juno: New Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Juno: New Origins.
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 ~50% under Juno: New Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Juno: New Origins.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Juno: New Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Juno: New Origins.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Juno: New Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Juno: New Origins.
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 ~60% under Juno: New Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Juno: New Origins.
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?
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Juno: New Origins.
Priced ~50% under Juno: New Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Juno: New Origins.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Juno: New Origins.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Juno: New Origins.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Juno: New Origins.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Juno: New Origins.
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.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Juno: New Origins.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
Unturned
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Juno: New Origins.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Juno: New Origins.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Juno: New Origins.
Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.
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More from Jundroo, LLC
Other recommendable Steam games by Jundroo, LLC, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
SimplePlanes
WHY THIS
Another title from Jundroo, LLC, the studio behind Juno: New Origins. Shares Indie and Simulation with Juno: New Origins.
Build airplanes by snapping parts together, designing wing sections, and attaching engines. At any time, you can strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies with realistic physics. If you're not in the mood for building, over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free.
SimplePlanes 2
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Juno: New Origins.
Another title from Jundroo, LLC, the studio behind Juno: New Origins. Shares Indie and Simulation with Juno: New Origins.
SimplePlanes is back! Build planes, cars, or anything else using powerful procedural parts! Explore detailed environments with friends in multiplayer, cause chaos, or download 1,000,000 community crafts for free.
SimpleRockets
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Juno: New Origins.
Another title from Jundroo, LLC, the studio behind Juno: New Origins. Shares Indie and Simulation with Juno: New Origins.
I am excited to release my first game on Steam! SimpleRockets was released in 2013 for mobile and I've put a ton of work into it to get it ready for PC and Mac. It was inspired by KSP, and it offers a simpler 2D experience for building rockets and exploring space with realistic orbital mechanics.
SimplePlanes VR
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Juno: New Origins.
Another title from Jundroo, LLC, the studio behind Juno: New Origins. Shares Indie and Simulation with Juno: New Origins.
SimplePlanes VR is a flight sim with an ever-expanding collection of hand-crafted aircraft to download and fly for free. Airplanes, helicopters, cars, boats, and more are available and new crafts are added every day.
Frequently asked about Juno: New Origins
- Does Juno: New Origins run on Steam Deck?
- Juno: New Origins 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 Juno: New Origins cost?
- Juno: New Origins is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Juno: New Origins?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Juno: New Origins are SpaceEngine, Rocket Science, Archean.
- Who developed Juno: New Origins?
- Juno: New Origins was developed by Jundroo, LLC.
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