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Sokpop Collective · 2021 · Windows, macOS
Steam: 87 % positive of 201 reviews, as of Oct 28
A fictional universe sandbox/exploration game. 🪐☄️✨ Shape your own solar system by terraforming planets. Find new species and make beautiful ecosystems . . . or breed destruction with volcanos, lightning storms and wildfires!
24 games that play like Heliopedia and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Planetary Life, Universe Sandbox and ASTRONEER.
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Plays and looks like Heliopedia
Close to it by gameplay and by look, so it appears in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like Heliopedia
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Planetary Life
93 % positive of 943
Shared: Simulation · God Game · Sandbox
Universe Sandbox
96 % positive of 28,135
Shared: Simulation · God Game · Sandbox
ASTRONEER
90 % positive of 119,274
Shared: Simulation · Sandbox · Exploration
SPORE™
92 % positive of 67,267
Shared: Simulation · God Game · Sandbox
The Planet Crafter
96 % positive of 69,754
Shared: Sandbox · Exploration · Space
SpaceEngine
96 % positive of 16,179
Shared: Simulation · Sandbox · Space Sim
Kerbal Space Program
95 % positive of 121,808
Shared: Simulation · Sandbox · Space Sim
Solar 2
91 % positive of 1,578
Shared: Simulation · God Game · Sandbox
Plan B: Terraform
90 % positive of 3,642
Shared: Simulation · Sandbox · Building
Space Engineers
88 % positive of 100,715
Shared: Simulation · Sandbox · Space
The Sapling
87 % positive of 1,963
Shared: Simulation · God Game · Sandbox
Universe Sandbox Legacy
79 % positive of 2,978
Shared: Simulation · God Game · Sandbox
More matches
- helionaut94 % positive of 204Shared: Simulation · Space · Crafting
- Eco80 % positive of 11,402Shared: Simulation · Sandbox · Building
- RimWorld97 % positive of 210,869Shared: Simulation · Sandbox · Space
- Spaceflight Simulator95 % positive of 9,590Shared: Simulation · Sandbox · Space Sim
- Empyrion - Galactic Survival77 % positive of 29,240Shared: Simulation · Sandbox · Space Sim
- Starbound89 % positive of 87,438Shared: Sandbox · Exploration · Space
- The Planet Crafter: Prologue95 % positive of 10,715Shared: Sandbox · Exploration · Space
- Equilinox92 % positive of 2,608Shared: Simulation · God Game · Sandbox
- Sandboxels94 % positive of 1,158Shared: Simulation · God Game · Sandbox
- Blossom: The Seed of Life87 % positive of 1,055
- The Universim78 % positive of 8,479Shared: Simulation · God Game · Sandbox
- Terra Firma 292 % positive of 226Shared: Simulation · God Game · Sandbox
By look
Looks like Heliopedia
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
helionaut
94 % positive of 204
The Greenening
95 % positive of 521
Last Horizon
81 % positive of 159
Dome Keeper
91 % positive of 19,273
Just Shapes & Beats
97 % positive of 24,212
Orbt XL
95 % positive of 3,224
Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
89 % positive of 28,468
Space Rock Breaker
95 % positive of 4,873
My Fire Is Bigger Than Yours
76 % positive of 255
To The Core
91 % positive of 5,111
Cosmochoria
85 % positive of 357
ROUNDS
95 % positive of 36,106
More matches
- Ball-it Hell94 % positive of 372
- Risk of Rain (2013)93 % positive of 20,787
- A Game About Feeding A Black Hole88 % positive of 3,587
- Swallow the Sea97 % positive of 2,470
- Control, I'm Not Coming Back97 % positive of 7,297
- Primordialis92 % positive of 1,012
- 20 Minutes Till Dawn90 % positive of 27,943
- SNKRX93 % positive of 4,196
- 10 Minutes Till Dawn94 % positive of 4,136
- Far Fishing96 % positive of 1,151
- The Last Cat in the Universe94 % positive of 1,257
- Tower Tactics: Liberation88 % positive of 1,235
At a glance
What games like Heliopedia have in common
- The tags they share most often with Heliopedia: Sandbox (22 of 24), Simulation (20) and God Game (10).
- They came out between 2008 and 2026, 8 of them after Heliopedia (2021).
- Best rated by Steam players: RimWorld (97 % positive of 210,869).
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.