Games Like Journey To The Savage Planet

HIGH ON KNIFE DLC OUT NOW!! - Humanity is being threatened by an alien cartel who wants to use them as drugs. It’s up to you to rescue and partner with charismatic, talking guns, take down Garmantuous and his gang, and save the world!

Why similar: Dark Humor 21.3%, Comedy 21.3%, Action-Adventure 14.5%, First-Person 9.2%, Adventure 8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same irreverent, satirical humor and first-person action gameplay found in the seed game.

The Gunk is an action-adventure game in which you play as Rani, part of our duo of gritty space haulers. As they’re struggling to bring in funds, they chance upon an untouched planet brimming with life. They came in search of valuable resources, and it looks like they’ve hit the jackpot…

Why similar: 3D Platformer 27.8%, Action-Adventure 19.5%, Exploration 14.7%, Metroidvania 11.6%, Colorful 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features a colorful, alien world that requires exploration and environmental interaction, very similar to the core loop of the seed game.

Try the demo! A mix between Portal, Zelda and Metroid. Exploration, puzzles, terrible combat, secret upgrades and new abilities that help you reach new places. Playtime 12-25h.

Why similar: Metroidvania 21.4%, Exploration 17.9%, 3D Platformer 17.5%, First-Person 13.8%, Action-Adventure 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the first-person exploration and metroidvania-style platforming upgrades that make the seed game so satisfying.

Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

Why similar: Exploration 43.2%, First-Person 16.1%, Adventure 16%, Story Rich 12.1%, Sci-fi 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly deep sense of discovery and curiosity-driven exploration within a mysterious, alien solar system.

The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.

Why similar: Exploration 23.2%, First-Person 14.6%, Adventure 11.7%, Comedy 10.9%, Action-Adventure 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a satirical, sci-fi narrative experience that balances first-person combat with exploration and player choice.

Combining quirky missions and mysterious conspiracies, Psychonauts 2 is a platform-adventure game with cinematic style and tons of customizable psychic powers.

Why similar: 3D Platformer 35.3%, Comedy 17.6%, Action-Adventure 11.3%, Colorful 8.4%, Adventure 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same whimsical, creative, and humorous tone while focusing on tight 3D platforming mechanics.

Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.

Why similar: Exploration 34.2%, First-Person 23.2%, Colorful 18%, Adventure 17.1%, Action 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: The vibrant, colorful aesthetic and focus on exploring an alien planet to collect creatures align closely with the seed game's atmosphere.

From Squanch Games comes Trover Saves the Universe. Your pups are missing. The cosmos is at stake. Only you and Trover can save everything in this bizarre comedy adventure!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.9%, 3D Platformer 18.6%, Dark Humor 16.8%, Comedy 14.7%, Adventure 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: It features the same brand of absurd, adult-oriented comedy and colorful, bizarre sci-fi world-building.

A mix between Portal, Zelda and Metroid. Exploration, puzzles, combat! A first-person-metroidvania taking place six inches under Supraland.

Why similar: Metroidvania 23.8%, Exploration 19.1%, First-Person 15.8%, Action-Adventure 14.3%, Colorful 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A standalone expansion that continues the excellent first-person puzzle-platforming and exploration found in the original Supraland.

Catch hundreds of tinykin and use their unique powers to bring Milo back to his home planet and back to normal size!

Why similar: 3D Platformer 32.2%, Action-Adventure 19.5%, Comedy 14.6%, Exploration 13%, Adventure 8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on satisfying 3D platforming and exploration in a unique, stylized world that feels like a natural extension of the seed game's traversal.

Blast your way through an interdimensional adventure with Ratchet and Clank – now on PC! Help them take on an evil emperor from another reality as you jump between action-packed worlds and beyond at hyper-speed!

Why similar: 3D Platformer 41.9%, Action-Adventure 22.3%, Adventure 13.4%, Action 6.9%, Co-op 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a high-polish, colorful, and action-packed adventure that feels like a spiritual cousin to the seed game's platforming.

Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.

Why similar: First-Person 26.7%, Exploration 20%, Adventure 16.4%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Action 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This survival game uses a similar brand of dark, satirical humor while keeping the player in a sci-fi, space-faring setting.

The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

Why similar: 3D Platformer 21.5%, Dark Humor 17.4%, Action-Adventure 13.7%, Co-op 12.1%, First-Person 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for first-person humor and environmental puzzle-solving, sharing the witty writing style of the seed game.

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Multiplayer 32.5%, Exploration 24.5%, Co-op 21.7%, Adventure 9.6%, Colorful 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the joy of exploring and terraforming colorful, low-gravity alien worlds with a focus on discovery.

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Multiplayer 35.7%, Co-op 27.7%, Exploration 12.9%, Adventure 10.4%, First-Person 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines exploration and survival with a unique, stylized perspective that rewards curiosity and base-building.

Pumpkin Jack is a Spooky Scary 3D platformer in which you embody Jack, the Mythical Pumpkin Lord! Dive into an Epic Adventure through otherworldly landscapes and help the Evil annihilate the Good!

Why similar: 3D Platformer 37%, Adventure 15.3%, Action 13.1%, Colorful 12.5%, Action-Adventure 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A vibrant 3D platformer that focuses on fun, accessible movement and combat in a stylized environment.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Multiplayer 32%, Co-op 26.8%, Exploration 19%, First-Person 10.5%, Adventure 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a vast, alien world to explore and build in, sharing the sci-fi aesthetic and sense of scale.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Exploration 32.1%, Multiplayer 21.9%, First-Person 18.3%, Adventure 11.9%, Action 7%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at building a sense of wonder and tension while exploring a beautiful, dangerous alien planet.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Exploration 32.5%, Multiplayer 24.6%, First-Person 16.5%, Adventure 11.3%, Sci-fi 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an expansive, colorful universe focused on planetary exploration, scanning, and survival elements.

Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.

Why similar: 3D Platformer 22.4%, Dark Humor 17.6%, Action-Adventure 15.1%, First-Person 13.1%, Exploration 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: A mind-bending first-person puzzle game that rewards creative thinking and exploration of its unique mechanics.

Think in reverse. Outsmart the impossible. A mind-bending first-person adventure where you solve ingenious and complex puzzles by rewinding objects through time.

Why similar: First-Person 30.9%, Exploration 25%, Adventure 16.8%, Story Rich 12.7%, Sci-fi 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person puzzle game that balances sci-fi mystery with a witty, talking companion character.

In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.

Why similar: Exploration 33.5%, Co-op 29.7%, First-Person 24.1%, Sci-fi 9.2%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a peaceful, mech-based exploration experience on a vibrant alien planet with light survival elements.

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Multiplayer 25.5%, Co-op 24.7%, Exploration 16.7%, First-Person 14.5%, Adventure 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A unique exploration game that features a customizable train in a surreal, interdimensional space setting.

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Why similar: Multiplayer 29.4%, Exploration 28%, First-Person 20.9%, Adventure 12.4%, Sci-fi 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It blends survival and exploration with a humorous, sci-fi research facility setting that encourages experimentation.

The Moon has gone dark, cutting off Earth’s last source of energy. As a lone astronaut, you’ll explore abandoned lunar bases, solve intricate puzzles, and navigate stunning zero-gravity environments. Operate advanced vehicles, uncover hidden truths, and survive in this gripping sci-fi thriller.

Why similar: Adventure 30.8%, Action 19.3%, Exploration 12.6%, Action-Adventure 9.4%, Sci-fi 9%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven sci-fi adventure that focuses on exploration and environmental storytelling on a desolate moon.

KeyWe is a cute, co-operative postal puzzler starring Jeff and Debra, two small kiwi birds working in a whimsical post office. They must jump, flap, peck and butt-slam their way across an interactive landscape of levers, bells and buttons to get those messages delivered on time!

Why similar: 3D Platformer 31.5%, Co-op 25.7%, Multiplayer 17%, Comedy 14.4%, Colorful 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the colorful, whimsical art style and cooperative puzzle-solving elements found in the seed game.

Explore the fallen world of Penumbra in this precision 3D metroidvania platformer. Slash fierce enemies, conquer deadly traps, uncover ancient temples, and master fast, fluid movement across challenging platforming gauntlets in your quest to restore a fallen kingdom.

Why similar: 3D Platformer 29.9%, Metroidvania 21.3%, Action-Adventure 18.9%, Exploration 17.1%, Adventure 6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers challenging 3D platforming and exploration in a mysterious world that rewards movement mastery.

A vibrant sci-fi platform adventure game where you help Maxwell the dog explore unfamiliar worlds, make strange new friends and contend with mysterious forces - by jumping, shooting, slicing, shrinking, warping and drilling.

Why similar: Metroidvania 25.3%, Exploration 20.7%, Comedy 14.8%, Adventure 12.7%, Colorful 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A charming, exploration-heavy adventure that captures the spirit of discovery and platforming in a sci-fi context.

Revenge of the Savage Planet is an upbeat, satirical action adventure Sci-Fi. Jump, shoot and collect your way across vibrant alien worlds, uncovering new gear and upgrades, while discovering various hidden secrets.

Why similar: Co-op 14.7%, Metroidvania 13.6%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Action-Adventure 12.1%, Exploration 11.4%

Grow your own worlds and nurture a deep natural connection with everything they hold. See your actions change the world for better! Bring the Evertree back to life in this breathtaking world-crafting sandbox, with life management and adventure elements.

Why similar: Exploration 42.3%, Colorful 25.7%, Adventure 25.2%, Singleplayer 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on exploration and world-building in a vibrant, colorful setting that feels welcoming and adventurous.

Venture together with your friends on an unknown planet. Use color switching, match-3 shooting, and artifact powers to overcome challenges and keep advancing. What lies ahead of you is an adventure filled with wonder, hope, and much more to discover!

Why similar: Co-op 46.8%, Adventure 22.5%, Multiplayer 20.2%, Action 6.8%, Sci-fi 3.7%

An intergalactic conspiracy threatens the fate of humanity! Team up with a wide cast of talking alien guns as you shoot, stab, and skate your way through the exotic locales to take down the bad guys and save your favorite species (humans)!

Why similar: Action-Adventure 21.3%, Comedy 18.4%, Dark Humor 17.2%, First-Person 12%, Adventure 11.9%

Hop into Orbo's shoes! Run, jump and drill around your boss's office, make some new friends, and uncover terrifying secrets about the company you work for in this comedically surreal 3D platformer!

Why similar: 3D Platformer 30.6%, Action-Adventure 18.3%, Comedy 17.5%, Exploration 10.1%, Colorful 7.9%

The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.

Why similar: Multiplayer 24.7%, Co-op 22.2%, Comedy 15.3%, First-Person 13.1%, Action 13%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a similar blend of first-person shooting, humor, and loot-driven progression in a stylized sci-fi setting.

Catch mysterious living snacks and feed them to your friends in this unusual island adventure!

Why similar: Comedy 22.3%, Exploration 18.8%, First-Person 17.2%, Adventure 13.8%, Colorful 10.5%

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Co-op 28.7%, Exploration 25.4%, First-Person 18.2%, Adventure 11.3%, Story Rich 7.1%

Stranded on a barren moon with nothing but your tools, fuelless ship, and celestial powers of creation, you are destined to recreate what was once lost and be the hero of your own Little Universe! Don't forget to call in up to three of your friends to join your journey in the Splitscreen Co-op Mode!

Why similar: Exploration 52.6%, Colorful 25.9%, Action 21.5%

Void Crew is a Chaotic, Co-op Roguelite game for 1 to 6 players: Outfit your spaceship and crew for thrilling quests, brave fierce enemies in Space Battles... and try not to panic!

Why similar: Multiplayer 23%, Co-op 22.2%, Action-Adventure 11.2%, Exploration 10.1%, Adventure 9.4%

Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

Why similar: Multiplayer 25.8%, Co-op 21.8%, Exploration 18.3%, Adventure 12.2%, Action 10.6%

Embark on an epic adventure full of whimsy, wonder, and high-powered weaponry! Roll your own multiclass hero then shoot, loot, slash, and cast on a quest to stop the Dragon Lord.

Why similar: Multiplayer 27.4%, Comedy 23.8%, Co-op 22%, Adventure 13.4%, Action 11.2%

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Why similar: Multiplayer 23.6%, Co-op 17.5%, Exploration 16.7%, Action-Adventure 15.7%, First-Person 10.8%

Star Control is a space role-playing game in which you command Earth's first interstellar starship on a mission to save the Earth from hostile alien empires.

Why similar: Dark Humor 25.4%, Action-Adventure 21.6%, Exploration 19.5%, Adventure 9.9%, Action 9.1%

Launch into the Borderlands universe and shoot ‘n’ loot your way through a brand new adventure that rockets you onto Pandora’s moon in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!

Why similar: Multiplayer 20.2%, Comedy 19.8%, Co-op 18.7%, First-Person 15%, Adventure 9.7%

WARNING: This game contains puns, dad jokes, flappy-bird-like-arcade-minigames, breaking of the 4th wall and jabs directed at tryhard-overly-serious-RPGS. Do not play if you hate FUN or would not like to strap in for a Hilarious quest for The Legendary Villain-Beating Artifact™.

Why similar: Multiplayer 18.7%, Action-Adventure 18.1%, Co-op 17.8%, Arcade 14.8%, Comedy 13.1%

Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!

Why similar: Action-Adventure 31.9%, Co-op 27.1%, Exploration 11.6%, First-Person 9.4%, Sci-fi 8.3%

Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.

Why similar: Multiplayer 26.8%, Exploration 24.9%, First-Person 15.1%, Adventure 11.6%, Action 7.6%

Biped is a coop action adventure game with a strong focus on moment-to-moment collaboration between 2 players.

Why similar: 3D Platformer 34.9%, Multiplayer 22.8%, Co-op 21.5%, Adventure 11.3%, Action 9.5%

Your spaceship crashed on an alien planet. Explore, salvage, craft, trade, manage and upgrade your way back home!

Why similar: Exploration 36.3%, Colorful 22.1%, Adventure 16.8%, Story Rich 11.4%, Sci-fi 9.7%

Jett Rider is an arcade shooter packed with action, exploration, RPG elements, tons of humor and awesome bosses. Explore, fight, gain experience, purchase weapons in this exciting adventure.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 27.5%, Exploration 20.6%, Arcade 11.9%, Colorful 10.7%, Action 8.1%

SLUDGE LIFE 2 is the grimiest first-person vandalism sim since the first SLUDGE LIFE—but, like, twice as dense. Explore a huger, weirder, gnarlier open world loaded with secrets, weirdos, jokes, and, of course, plenty of spots to tag.

Why similar: Exploration 22.4%, Action-Adventure 21.2%, Adventure 17%, First-Person 13.9%, Comedy 13.1%

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Exploration 21%, Co-op 21%, Multiplayer 20.1%, First-Person 16.8%, Adventure 9.9%

"The Superfluous" [soo-pur-floo-uh s] A cave-diving, sci-fi, rogue-lite, platformer with jet packs and lots of explosions. Help stop an apocalyptic asteroid on collision course with Earth. Lead a squad to the center of the asteroid and blast it into space dust.

Why similar: Adventure 38.5%, Action 36.3%, Sci-fi 14.3%, Story Rich 10.9%

Pioneers against aliens! JustAxe is an exciting 2D platformer with puzzles, interactive environments and unusual setting! Solve riddles, combine your moves, and set out to save your hometown and possibly all of humanity... And don’t forget to take your axe with you!

Why similar: Action-Adventure 21.2%, Exploration 18%, Arcade 17.4%, Comedy 12.3%, Adventure 10.9%

Welcome to a breathtaking storyline full of portals, solving puzzles with an energy-absorbing weapon, and other adventures in a sci-fi atmosphere! Can you travel through parallel dimensions and uncover the secrets of your past?

Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.7%, Action-Adventure 13.9%, Dark Humor 12.9%, Exploration 12.4%, Comedy 10.6%

A sci-fi comedy adventure game

Why similar: Adventure 41.4%, Comedy 39.4%, Sci-fi 8.3%, Story Rich 6.5%, Singleplayer 4.3%

A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.

Why similar: Co-op 21.1%, Exploration 20.7%, Multiplayer 18.9%, First-Person 12.9%, Adventure 10.1%

Join Norah, a woman plagued by a mysterious illness, in her search for her missing husband in this adventure puzzle game set on a lush island paradise. Immerse yourself in stunning visuals and unlock forbidden secrets in a moving tale of mystery and love.

Why similar: First-Person 23.2%, Exploration 20.3%, Adventure 17.9%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Colorful 12.5%

Scars Above is a challenging sci-fi third-person action adventure shooter combining the rewarding feel of overcoming difficulty with a compelling and intricate story, set in a mysterious alien world to explore.

Why similar: Exploration 23.8%, Action-Adventure 23.6%, Adventure 20.8%, Action 19.3%, Sci-fi 9.5%

Stranded in a strange galaxy, you must fight for survival using only your wits, your ship, and your party planning robot companion Matey. Explore the universe, befriend bizarre aliens, and blast through hordes of monsters as you endeavor to find a way home.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 21.2%, Exploration 18.9%, Arcade 18.1%, Colorful 11.7%, Adventure 10.8%

Awaken as an alien. How did you get here? No idea! What's your name? No one knows! Explore the strange colonies of a spa-cult civilization to find your way home. Unravel cosmic jokes, befriend digital ghosts, and discover what “you” means in a universe built on absurdity.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 27%, 3D Platformer 26.8%, Exploration 15.8%, Comedy 10.8%, Action 6%