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You play ION, a young exploration unit stranded on an alien world after a crash that wrecks your ship. Your goal is to survive, explore the hostile planet, and find a way to call home, with a small robot companion joining the journey.
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The closest matches for Phoning Home are Subnautica, Rodina and The Solus Project. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Phoning Home special – the reasons are listed right on each game.
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Stranded on an ocean planet, you dive ever deeper into a gorgeous yet terrifying alien sea. You build bases and submarines while piecing together the planet's mystery, and the dark depths themselves become the real source of dread.
89 % 14.99 €
Open world
Rodina lets you roam an entire solar system seamlessly, moving from your ship to planet surfaces with no loading screens. Space dogfights against an alien swarm and the mystery behind the fall of the Vanguard Company give the journey its pull.
88 % 18.99 €
Sci-fi setting
You are stranded on an alien planet and must endure harsh weather, hunger and dangers while exploring caves and ruins in first person. The goal is to uncover the world's secrets and send a signal back to Earth.
87 % 24.99 €
Sci-fi setting
A comedic space survival adventure: after a ship crash you craft gear, explore wreckage and uncover a mystery alongside an immortal chicken. Absurd dialogue and sci-fi parodies give it its charm.
87 % 5.69 €
Sci-fi setting
You pilot the final ship of a fallen civilization through the vast unknown in search of a new home. The game keeps things sparse, putting exploration and survival at the centre of the experience.
86 % 5.29 €
Open world
You roam a vast, freely explorable alien world called Adelpha, built from voxel terrain, while uncovering a conspiracy as an outsider. This 2014 enhanced edition mainly brings improved stability and higher resolutions to a 1999 classic.
85 % 29.99 €
Sci-fi setting
A sci-fi survival-crafting game where you play the last caretaker, recovering human seeds, reactivating the Lazarus Complex and sending humanity to the stars. You explore an open world while gathering resources and building up your base.
84 % 23.99 €
Open world
You terraform a hostile planet by gathering resources, building bases and machines, and watching a barren wasteland slowly gain atmosphere, water and life. The blend of calm survival and visible, large-scale progress is what makes it special.
84 % 17.99 €
Pure single-player experience
As disaster specialist Dalia, you clean alien fungus from facilities around Saturn's rings, lay victims to rest and uncover the contamination's origins. It blends calm cleanup gameplay with survival and exploration.
84 % 14.99 €
Pure single-player experience
You guide biologist Ellery Vas's diving suit across an alien ocean planet entirely through a minimalist map interface. Calm exploration, sample collecting and light puzzles drive an atmospheric story about loss and ecology.
