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Supercube · 2023 · Windows

Steam: 73 % positive of 401 reviews, as of Oct 18

Deep and innovative space survival simulation experience. Build your station, manage your crew and explore the harsh environment of Io, the innermost moon of Jupiter. Are you brave enough to survive?

24 games that play like The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Stranded: Alien Dawn, RimWorld and ASTRONEER.

Player tags

  • Early Access
  • Top-Down
  • Survival
  • Management
  • Base-Building
  • Strategy
  • RPG
  • Crafting
Map region: Space & Sci-Fi
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Best matches

Plays and looks like The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation

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

By gameplay

Plays like The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation

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

More matches

  1. Osiris: New Dawn53 % positive of 15,025Shared: Survival · Base-Building · Crafting
  2. StarRupture80 % positive of 13,684
  3. Space Haven86 % positive of 9,009Shared: Survival · Management · Base-Building
  4. Space Engineers88 % positive of 132,347Shared: Survival · Strategy · Crafting
  5. Stationeers85 % positive of 7,066Shared: Survival · Management · Base-Building
  6. Abiotic Factor96 % positive of 31,274Shared: Survival · Base-Building · Crafting
  7. Remains78 % positive of 307Shared: Survival · Base-Building · Crafting
  8. Solargene77 % positive of 623Shared: Management · Base-Building · Strategy
  9. The Riftbreaker90 % positive of 18,005Shared: Survival · Base-Building · Strategy
  10. Breathedge82 % positive of 15,320Shared: Survival · Base-Building · Crafting
  11. HELLION55 % positive of 4,148Shared: Survival · Base-Building · Simulation
  12. The Crust76 % positive of 2,603Shared: Survival · Management · Base-Building

By look

Looks like The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation

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

More matches

  1. System Shock91 % positive of 10,729
  2. Stellar Tactics80 % positive of 1,430
  3. BATTLETECH83 % positive of 31,563
  4. Aliens: Dark Descent88 % positive of 15,650
  5. The Last Caretaker86 % positive of 14,184
  6. Elite Dangerous77 % positive of 100,024
  7. The Expanse: A Telltale Series78 % positive of 1,922
  8. Crying Suns85 % positive of 4,267
  9. The Turing Test87 % positive of 7,894
  10. Moons of Madness77 % positive of 2,748
  11. The Outer Worlds83 % positive of 26,052
  12. Astrometica87 % positive of 2,019

At a glance

What games like The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation: Survival (22 of 24), Base-Building (21) and Management (11).
  • They came out between 2015 and 2026, 7 of them after The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation (2023).
  • Best rated by Steam players: RimWorld (97 % positive of 210,517).

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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