Games like Project AETHER: First Contact
If Project AETHER: First Contact is your kind of game, the closest matches are Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo, GUNPIG: Firepower For Hire and Cyberhunt — 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 Project AETHER: First Contact: As a threat from beyond looms over the solar system, take control of the AETHER prototype in this rhythmic and tactical space shooter - fusing classic arcade-style action with stunning 3D environments and an engaging sci-fi story.
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Steam players who put hours into Project AETHER: First Contact 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.
Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo
WHY THIS
Top pick for Project AETHER: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Project AETHER: First Contact.
The definitive 'Turbo Edition' of the easy to play hard to master space blaster. Bringing more game modes, ships, challenges, upgradable power-ups and frantic retro space blasting fun than ever before. Alone or in co-op you’ll keep coming back to unlock ships, upgrade weapons and beat your high-score.
GUNPIG: Firepower For Hire
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Project AETHER: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Project AETHER: First Contact.
Sci-fi top-down twin-stick shooter with 9 weapons, 3 alts and secret hidden collectibles!
Cyberhunt
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Project AETHER: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Project AETHER: First Contact.
Cyberhunt is a retro procedurally generated twin stick shooter, that takes you back to the sweet to the sweet arcade machines era!
Astebreed: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Project AETHER: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Project AETHER: First Contact.
Climb into the cockpit of an otherworldly war machine and fly into battle against a horrifying alien race bent on eradicating humanity to preserve their own civilization.
Tesla vs Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Project AETHER: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Project AETHER: First Contact.
Tesla vs Lovecraft is an intense top-down twin stick arena shooter from the creators of Crimsonland and Neon Chrome. Play as the enigmatic inventor Nikola Tesla harnessing the static energy to power up Tesla-Mech and give the lovecraftian nightmares a lesson in horror!
Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Project AETHER: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Project AETHER: First Contact.
Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax is a fast-paced couch co-op action shooter with SHMUP/Brawler gameplay and RPG elements. Choose your mechs, weapons & upgrades then soar through space, defeat evil & save the future... from itself!
Mech Havoc
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Project AETHER: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Project AETHER: First Contact.
Sandbox of destruction. Billion different ways to build your mech. Feel the weight and impact of obliteration in this modern old school mech combat sim.
Crimsonland
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Project AETHER: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Project AETHER: First Contact.
Thousands of aliens, giant spiders, mutant lizards, and more are on the attack - can you survive the onslaught? Crimsonland is a top-down shooter with a touch of RPG. Unlock over 30 weapons and over 50 perks from quirky to brutal. Complete the quest and show your skills in five survival modes.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Project AETHER: First Contact at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Project AETHER: First Contact on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Project AETHER: First Contact.
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 ~62% under Project AETHER: First Contact on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Project AETHER: First Contact.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Project AETHER: First Contact on Steam right now. Shares Action with Project AETHER: First Contact.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Project AETHER: First Contact on Steam right now. Shares Action with Project AETHER: First Contact.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Project AETHER: First Contact on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Project AETHER: First Contact.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Project AETHER: First Contact on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Project AETHER: First Contact.
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 ~62% under Project AETHER: First Contact on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Project AETHER: First Contact.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Project AETHER: First Contact on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Project AETHER: First Contact.
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?
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 Action with Project AETHER: First Contact.
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.
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 Project AETHER: First Contact.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Project AETHER: First Contact.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Project AETHER: First Contact.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Project AETHER: First Contact.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Project AETHER: First Contact.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Project AETHER: First Contact.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Astebreed: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Project AETHER: First Contact.
Climb into the cockpit of an otherworldly war machine and fly into battle against a horrifying alien race bent on eradicating humanity to preserve their own civilization.
Tesla vs Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Project AETHER: First Contact.
Tesla vs Lovecraft is an intense top-down twin stick arena shooter from the creators of Crimsonland and Neon Chrome. Play as the enigmatic inventor Nikola Tesla harnessing the static energy to power up Tesla-Mech and give the lovecraftian nightmares a lesson in horror!
Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Project AETHER: First Contact.
Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax is a fast-paced couch co-op action shooter with SHMUP/Brawler gameplay and RPG elements. Choose your mechs, weapons & upgrades then soar through space, defeat evil & save the future... from itself!
Crimsonland
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Project AETHER: First Contact.
Thousands of aliens, giant spiders, mutant lizards, and more are on the attack - can you survive the onslaught? Crimsonland is a top-down shooter with a touch of RPG. Unlock over 30 weapons and over 50 perks from quirky to brutal. Complete the quest and show your skills in five survival modes.
Frequently asked about Project AETHER: First Contact
- How much does Project AETHER: First Contact cost?
- Project AETHER: First Contact is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Project AETHER: First Contact?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Project AETHER: First Contact are Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo, GUNPIG: Firepower For Hire, Cyberhunt.
- Who developed Project AETHER: First Contact?
- Project AETHER: First Contact was developed by Sleepy Spider Studios.
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