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Games like Voidship: The Long Journey

If Voidship: The Long Journey is your kind of game, the closest matches are Heat Signature, Void War and FTL: Faster Than Light — 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.

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About Voidship: The Long Journey: Design your battleship and fight your way through unforgiving space. This is a tale of a lone spaceship on a centuries-long mission. As the captain, you´ll make strategic decisions, explore unknown sectors, meet allies and enemies, gather resources, technology and crew. To battle stations!

2019ActionStrategyIndieSimulation10.99 USDWindowsby Cydonian Games
Voidship: The Long Journey — Steam game cover
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Build ships to match your preferred playstyleCrew members age and die over long journeysShip positioning dictates combat flowAtmosphericContemplativeImmersive

Players who liked Voidship: The Long Journey also play

Steam players who put hours into Voidship: The Long Journey 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.

  1. Heat Signature

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Top pick for Voidship: The Long Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.

    2017ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Void War

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Second-strongest match for Voidship: The Long Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    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.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. FTL: Faster Than Light

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Third-strongest match for Voidship: The Long Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

    2012StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Distant Worlds 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Ranked #4 for Voidship: The Long Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.

    2022StrategySimulation49.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Shortest Trip to Earth

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Ranked #5 for Voidship: The Long Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    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.

    2019ActionStrategyIndie25.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Battlevoid: Harbinger

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and a contemplative mood with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Ranked #6 for Voidship: The Long Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Battlevoid: Harbinger is a hard sci-fi space exploration game blending roguelike, turn-based, star map strategy, and real-time space battles. You are a young commander venturing out into enemy territories, to unknown galaxies, never knowing what you will face as you jump out from hyperspace.

    2016ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Stellaris

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Ranked #7 for Voidship: The Long Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.

    2016StrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Polaris Sector

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Ranked #8 for Voidship: The Long Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.

    2016StrategySimulation39.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Voidship: The Long Journey

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Gratuitous Space Battles

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Reviewers of Voidship: The Long Journey cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.

    2009StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. FTL: Faster Than Light

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Reviewers of Voidship: The Long Journey cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

    2012StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Battlestar Galactica Deadlock

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Reviewers of Voidship: The Long Journey cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    In Battlestar Galactica Deadlock™ you’ll take command of the Colonial Fleet in defense of the Twelve Colonies during the First Cylon War. Lead many different types of ships in this 3D tactical game. Every decision counts, your strategy will be vital – can you ensure mankind’s survival?

    2017StrategyDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Voidship: The Long Journey at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Voidship: The Long Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Voidship: The Long Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~59% under Voidship: The Long Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under Voidship: The Long Journey on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Voidship: The Long Journey on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Voidship: The Long Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~91% under Voidship: The Long Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Voidship: The Long Journey on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 Voidship: The Long Journey.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Voidship: The Long Journey.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Voidship: The Long Journey

How much does Voidship: The Long Journey cost?
Voidship: The Long Journey is listed on Steam at 10.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Voidship: The Long Journey?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Voidship: The Long Journey are Heat Signature, Void War, FTL: Faster Than Light.
Who developed Voidship: The Long Journey?
Voidship: The Long Journey was developed by Cydonian Games and published by Cydonian Games, Levsha.

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 Voidship: The Long Journey.

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