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DON'T NOD · 2026 · Windows

Steam: 63 % positive of 320 reviews, as of Oct 28

Hunted on a frozen planet, astronaut Ariane must brave rugged landscapes and shifting realities to rescue her wounded partner, Thomas. This action-packed sci-fi adventure blends exploration, traversal, and tense stealth gameplay.

24 games that play like Aphelion and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Deliver Us Mars, Lifeless Planet Premier Edition and Deliver Us The Moon.

Player tags

  • Sci-fi
  • Action-Adventure
  • Cinematic
  • Parkour
  • Stealth
  • Third Person
  • Emotional
  • Exploration
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Best matches

Plays and looks like Aphelion

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Aphelion

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Lifeless Moon78 % positive of 261Shared: Sci-fi · Cinematic · Third Person
  2. The Alters90 % positive of 15,621Shared: Sci-fi · Action-Adventure · Third Person
  3. Steel Seed77 % positive of 344Shared: Sci-fi · Action-Adventure · Cinematic
  4. ROUTINE91 % positive of 7,667
  5. The Savior From Above93 % positive of 382Shared: Sci-fi · Action-Adventure · Cinematic
  6. Directive 802063 % positive of 1,374
  7. The Invincible86 % positive of 10,484Shared: Sci-fi · Story Rich · Mystery
  8. Arctic Awakening84 % positive of 334Shared: Sci-fi · Emotional · Exploration
  9. STARDROP85 % positive of 247Shared: Sci-fi · Cinematic · Emotional
  10. The Fall86 % positive of 2,791Shared: Sci-fi · Story Rich · Atmospheric
  11. The Solus Project78 % positive of 2,476Shared: Sci-fi · Exploration · Story Rich
  12. Journey To The Savage Planet86 % positive of 5,681Shared: Sci-fi · Action-Adventure · Exploration

By look

Looks like Aphelion

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. The Outer Worlds82 % positive of 28,323
  2. Breathedge 285 % positive of 1,784
  3. Stellar Blade™92 % positive of 62,314
  4. Breathedge81 % positive of 14,877
  5. The Expanse: A Telltale Series76 % positive of 2,410
  6. Dead Space89 % positive of 64,159
  7. Returnal™78 % positive of 6,676
  8. Species: Unknown94 % positive of 9,904
  9. Subnautica: Below Zero90 % positive of 99,732
  10. Journey To The Savage Planet86 % positive of 5,681
  11. Astrometica80 % positive of 2,951
  12. Prey90 % positive of 37,972

At a glance

What games like Aphelion have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Aphelion: Sci-fi (22 of 24), Cinematic (9) and Action-Adventure (8).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2026, none of them after Aphelion (2026).
  • Best rated by Steam players: SIGNALIS (96 % positive of 31,353).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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