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Watercress · 2016 · 95 % positive of 261

24 games that play like Palinurus and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Space Pilgrim Episode I: Alpha Centauri, 旅燕归航 Swallow Homing and Blossoms Bloom Brightest.

Player tags

  • Free to Play
  • Visual Novel
  • Anime
  • Indie
  • Story Rich
  • Sci-fi
  • Memes

At a glance

What games like Palinurus have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Palinurus: Story Rich (20 of 24), Sci-fi (13) and Visual Novel (12).
  • They came out between 2012 and 2025, 14 of them after Palinurus (2016).
  • Best rated by Steam players: planetarian HD (98 % positive of 2,981).

By gameplay

Plays like Palinurus

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

More matches

  1. Human-powered spacecraft93 % positive of 723Shared: Story Rich · Sci-fi
  2. Analogue: A Hate Story93 % positive of 2,280Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Story Rich
  3. STARDROP86 % positive of 269Shared: Story Rich · Sci-fi · Indie
  4. planetarian HD98 % positive of 2,981Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Story Rich
  5. Starseed Pilgrim60 % positive of 529Shared: Indie
  6. Space Pilgrim Episode II: Epsilon Indi87 % positive of 549Shared: Story Rich · Sci-fi · Indie
  7. Hostil86 % positive of 261Shared: Story Rich · Sci-fi · Indie
  8. Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector94 % positive of 1,316Shared: Story Rich · Sci-fi · Indie
  9. Rising Angels: Reborn80 % positive of 587Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Sci-fi
  10. The Flood83 % positive of 1,224Shared: Visual Novel · Story Rich · Free to Play
  11. Lost Nova93 % positive of 361Shared: Story Rich · Sci-fi · Indie
  12. Europa88 % positive of 638Shared: Anime · Story Rich · Sci-fi

By look

Looks like Palinurus

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

More matches

  1. Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius92 % positive of 2,782
  2. Distant Memoraĵo97 % positive of 170
  3. Sentience: The Android's Tale88 % positive of 167
  4. A Light in the Dark93 % positive of 1,705
  5. Wet steps92 % positive of 283
  6. Summer Memory of Bell94 % positive of 204
  7. Lucid9: Inciting Incident90 % positive of 1,035
  8. Teleportals. I swear it's a nice game96 % positive of 320
  9. Minotaur95 % positive of 336
  10. Date Warp88 % positive of 172
  11. Saint Slaughter X Days92 % positive of 201
  12. The Dandelion Girl: Don't You Remember Me?95 % positive of 174

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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