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Games like Planetoid

2017PC49 % positive5.19 €

You construct physics-based facilities on a small planetoid to fend off enemies and protect the humanoids living there. It blends building, strategy and action in an indie sci-fi setting.

  • Building and crafting
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Fast pace

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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Planetoid special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Creeper World 4

85 %Match

2020PCSteam Deck playable94 % positive24.50 €

Brings what grabs you about Planetoid: building and crafting, a sci-fi setting as well as a pure single-player experience.

A real-time strategy game where you build towers, weapons and energy networks to contain and push back a spreading fluid-like menace. The fluid dynamics turn each map into a tactical puzzle.

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Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal

Pure single-player experience

A real-time strategy game where you push back a spreading fluid menace called the Creeper using defensive towers and terraforming. Huge maps and scripting tools make it a demanding, puzzle-like challenge for tacticians.

Rymdkapsel

Gameplay comes before story

In Rymdkapsel you build a space station from modules and set the overall direction while your minions do the legwork. It is calm and meditative, and the challenge lies in clever layout rather than fast reflexes.

Imagine Earth

Focus on a single character

A real-time colony-building strategy game where you settle alien planets and balance trade, economy and environmental impact. Managing each planet's ecology feels like a thoughtful planning puzzle.

Dyson Sphere Program

Gameplay comes before story

A space factory-automation game where you build production chains across multiple planets and ultimately wrap a star in a Dyson sphere. The appeal lies in optimizing sprawling logistics networks on a galactic scale.

Next Space Rebels

Pure single-player experience

You grow from a naive rocket hobbyist into a seasoned space activist by designing, building and launching ever more complex rockets. Tinkering and construction are at the heart of the game.

X-Morph: Defense

Focus on a single character

X-Morph: Defense blends a top-down shooter with tower defense: you play the alien invader, placing towers while also fighting directly with your own ship against Earth's defenders.

Shapez

Gameplay comes before story

You build factories on an infinite map that automatically cut, rotate, paint and stack geometric shapes. It rewards clever layout design and optimization, with no combat or time pressure.

Infinifactory

Pure single-player experience

A 3D engineering puzzler from Zachtronics in which you build factory lines for alien captors that assemble products. The appeal lies in tinkering and optimizing your solutions against other players' results.

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