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Obsidian Entertainment · 2020 · 83 % positive of 26,052

24 games that play like The Outer Worlds and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition, The Outer Worlds 2 and Starfield.

Player tags

  • Open World
  • Action RPG
  • RPG
  • Exploration
  • FPS
  • Adventure
  • Singleplayer
  • Story Rich

At a glance

What games like The Outer Worlds have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Outer Worlds: RPG (23 of 24), Open World (18) and Action RPG (14).
  • They came out between 2015 and 2025, 11 of them after The Outer Worlds (2020).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Starcom: Unknown Space (92 % positive of 3,168).
  • The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition, SpaceBourne 2 and ELEX both play and look like The Outer Worlds.

By gameplay

Plays like The Outer Worlds

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

More matches

  1. Starcom: Nexus90 % positive of 2,132Shared: Open World · Action RPG · RPG
  2. EVERSPACE™ 286 % positive of 11,628Shared: Open World · Action RPG · RPG
  3. SpaceBourne76 % positive of 773Shared: Open World · RPG · Exploration
  4. Everreach: Project Eden46 % positive of 587Shared: Action RPG · RPG · Exploration
  5. Fallout 483 % positive of 392,287Shared: Open World · Action RPG · RPG
  6. Transcendence87 % positive of 213Shared: Open World · Action RPG · RPG
  7. Out There: Oceans of Time54 % positive of 216Shared: Open World · RPG · Exploration
  8. Between the Stars74 % positive of 2,301Shared: Open World · RPG · Exploration
  9. The Technomancer68 % positive of 2,867Shared: Open World · Action RPG · RPG
  10. ELEX74 % positive of 19,018Shared: Open World · RPG · Story Rich
  11. Outcast - Second Contact77 % positive of 934Shared: Open World · RPG · Exploration
  12. The Last Oricru - Final Cut67 % positive of 580Shared: Action RPG · RPG · Story Rich

By look

Looks like The Outer Worlds

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

More matches

  1. Prey90 % positive of 51,033
  2. SpaceBourne 278 % positive of 4,117
  3. Borderlands 457 % positive of 87,137
  4. Forever Skies80 % positive of 6,918
  5. ELEX74 % positive of 19,018
  6. PlanetSide 280 % positive of 73,694
  7. Splitgate91 % positive of 111,740
  8. Moon Mystery70 % positive of 561
  9. STARDROP86 % positive of 269
  10. StarRupture80 % positive of 13,684
  11. Void Crew88 % positive of 6,713
  12. Outpost Zero49 % positive of 840

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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