Games like Kerbal Space Program 2
If Kerbal Space Program 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kerbal Space Program, Meco Rocket Simulator and Lunar Odyssey — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its contemplative, stressful and tense. 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 →Developed by Intercept Games and published by Private Division, Kerbal Space Program 2 is an indie simulation released in 2023 at $49.99 USD. Players engage with rocket design, orbital mechanics, colony management, procedural generation, and multiplayer cooperative mechanics within this challenging sandbox experience. Reviewers note the orbital mechanics feel deep and rewarding, while players highlight that the colony-building potential excites them and that the modding community keeps the experience alive. The game promises interstellar travel and multiplayer elements as key future features. Early Access status indicates ongoing development, and the title does not currently support the Steam Deck. Players describe the experience as contemplative, stressful, and tense, with reviewers emphasizing the tension that emerges during extended sessions. The game currently holds a 26% positive rating from over 22,000 Steam reviews.
About Kerbal Space Program 2: Kerbal Space Program 2 is the sequel to the acclaimed space-flight simulation game Kerbal Space Program. Enter the next generation of space adventure with exciting new parts, stunning visuals, fully revamped UI and Map View, and rich new environments to explore.
Players who liked Kerbal Space Program 2 also play
Steam players who put hours into Kerbal Space Program 2 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.
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Top pick for Kerbal Space Program 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kerbal Space Program 2.
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.
Meco Rocket Simulator
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Kerbal Space Program 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Kerbal Space Program 2.
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.
Lunar Odyssey
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Kerbal Space Program 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Kerbal Space Program 2.
Don your xEMU Spacesuit, explore the Orontius Crater, and Lunar Module in an immersive first-person VR experience with out of this world accuracy and interaction. Follow real-life procedures, launch the Apollo-era Lunar Module, play Space Golf, and experience the moon like never before.
Rocket Science
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Kerbal Space Program 2.
Ranked #4 for Kerbal Space Program 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Kerbal Space Program 2.
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 a contemplative mood with Kerbal Space Program 2.
Ranked #5 for Kerbal Space Program 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kerbal Space Program 2.
Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.
Take On Mars
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Kerbal Space Program 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Kerbal Space Program 2.
Take On Mars places you right in the middle of mankind’s most exciting undertaking. Start out in the seat of a rover operator, finish as the first human to have ever set foot on the Red Planet.
Spacefleet: Heat Death
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Ranked #7 for Kerbal Space Program 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Kerbal Space Program 2.
In the 23rd century, Earth orbit is flooded with debris from constant warfare. Countries, megacorporations, and mercenaries are fighting for control. Take contracts, build your warfleets, and dominate the Earth-Luna system in this realism-focused strategy RPG!
Juno: New Origins
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Kerbal Space Program 2.
Ranked #8 for Kerbal Space Program 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kerbal Space Program 2.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Kerbal Space Program 2
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Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Kerbal Space Program 2.
Reviewers of Kerbal Space Program 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kerbal Space Program 2.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Kerbal Space Program 2.
Reviewers of Kerbal Space Program 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kerbal Space Program 2.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a stressful mood with Kerbal Space Program 2.
Reviewers of Kerbal Space Program 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kerbal Space Program 2.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
FTL: Faster Than Light
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Kerbal Space Program 2.
Reviewers of Kerbal Space Program 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kerbal Space Program 2.
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.
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Kerbal Space Program 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kerbal Space Program 2.
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.
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Kerbal Space Program 2.
Reviewers of Kerbal Space Program 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Kerbal Space Program 2.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Toribash
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Kerbal Space Program 2.
Reviewers of Kerbal Space Program 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Kerbal Space Program 2.
Toribash is an innovative free-to-play online turn-based fighting game where you’re able to design your own moves. Complete control over character's body, hundreds of game mods and bloody mess with full body dismemberment - you've never been able to annihilate your enemies like that before!
Rocket League®
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Reviewers of Kerbal Space Program 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Kerbal Space Program 2.
Rocket League is a high-powered hybrid of arcade-style soccer and vehicular mayhem with easy-to-understand controls and fluid, physics-driven competition. Rocket League includes casual and competitive Online Matches, a fully-featured offline Season Mode, special “Mutators” that let you change the rules entirely, hockey and...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Kerbal Space Program 2 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Kerbal Space Program 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kerbal Space Program 2.
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
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Priced ~70% under Kerbal Space Program 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kerbal Space Program 2.
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?
Phasmophobia
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Priced ~60% under Kerbal Space Program 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Kerbal Space Program 2.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~80% under Kerbal Space Program 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Kerbal Space Program 2.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
BeamNG.drive
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Priced ~50% under Kerbal Space Program 2 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Kerbal Space Program 2.
A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.
Schedule I
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Priced ~60% under Kerbal Space Program 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kerbal Space Program 2.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Kerbal Space Program 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kerbal Space Program 2.
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.
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.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kerbal Space Program 2.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kerbal Space Program 2.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kerbal Space Program 2.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Kerbal Space Program 2.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kerbal Space Program 2.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kerbal Space Program 2.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Kerbal Space Program 2
- Does Kerbal Space Program 2 work on Steam Deck?
- Kerbal Space Program 2 is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Kerbal Space Program 2 cost?
- Kerbal Space Program 2 is listed on Steam at 49.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Kerbal Space Program 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kerbal Space Program 2 are Kerbal Space Program, Meco Rocket Simulator, Lunar Odyssey.
- Who developed Kerbal Space Program 2?
- Kerbal Space Program 2 was developed by Intercept Games and published by Private Division.
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 Kerbal Space Program 2.
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