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Games Like Phantom

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Indie, Action, Survival.

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Phantom is a hard sci-fi survival game. It is very different from other survival games; the player is a robot rather than human. At the same time the game has a pure physics-based construction system, which makes survival and fighting become very fun and different.

Reviews: Mostly Negative — 34% — of 173 reviews
Released: 2017-05-27
Developer: Phantomisreal Ltd.
Genres: Adventure, Indie, RPG, Early Access
Platforms: Windows

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