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Games like Lightyear Frontier

30 games alike in Open World Survival Craft, Crafting and Base Building, with Hydroneer, The Planet Crafter and ASTRONEER closest.

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ClosestHydroneer

Lightyear Frontier, but funny

14 hoursLiked · 86%Its page

AutomationMining

3 games that share both with Lightyear Frontier

  1. 1Closest

    Hydroneer

    Lightyear Frontier, but funny

    Liked · 86%

  2. 11

    MineMogul

    Lightyear Frontier, but physics-driven, and solo

    Loved · 96%

  3. 30

    Ore Factory Squad ⛏️

    Much the same as Lightyear Frontier

    Liked · 89%

Open World Survival CraftBase Building

8 games that share both with Lightyear Frontier

  1. 2

    The Planet Crafter

    Lightyear Frontier, but about survival, and twice the hours

    Loved · 96%

  2. 5

    Nightingale

    Lightyear Frontier, but about survival, and more divisive

    Mixed · 66%

  3. 13

    Green Hell

    Lightyear Frontier, but a survival game

    Liked · 85%

  4. 19

    Icarus

    Lightyear Frontier, but about survival, and twice the hours

    Mixed · 75%

  5. 23

    Subsistence

    Lightyear Frontier, but more divisive

    Mixed · 72%

  6. 26

    Valheim

    Lightyear Frontier, but three times the hours

    Loved · 94%

  7. 27

    Grounded

    Lightyear Frontier, but horror

    Loved · 90%

  8. 29

    Smalland: Survive the Wilds

    Lightyear Frontier, but about survival

    Liked · 82%

Open World Survival CraftAutomation

6 games that share both with Lightyear Frontier

  1. 3

    ASTRONEER

    Lightyear Frontier, but in space, and twice the hours

    Loved · 92%

  2. 12Hidden gem

    Sandustry

    Lightyear Frontier, but solo, and even better loved

    Loved · 97%

  3. 15

    Nova Lands

    Lightyear Frontier, but with robots, and pixel art

    Liked · 89%

  4. 17

    Palworld

    Lightyear Frontier, but a creature collector, and twice the hours

    Loved · 95%

  5. 20

    Eden Crafters

    Lightyear Frontier, but about survival

    Liked · 85%

  6. 21

    StarRupture

    Lightyear Frontier, but about survival

    Liked · 81%

Open World Survival CraftFarming Sim

3 games that share both with Lightyear Frontier

  1. 4

    Dinkum

    Much the same as Lightyear Frontier

    Loved · 92%

  2. 7

    Solarpunk

    Lightyear Frontier, but about survival

    Liked · 81%

  3. 10

    Forager

    Lightyear Frontier, but an incremental game, and 2D

    Liked · 89%

And more like Lightyear Frontier

Each with the kinds it shares, under its name.

  1. 6

    My Time at Portia

    Lightyear Frontier, but solo, and three times the hours

    Loved · 91%Farming Sim · Crafting

  2. 8Best loved

    Satisfactory

    Lightyear Frontier, but five times the hours, and even better loved

    Loved · 97%Automation · Base Building

  3. 9

    Necesse

    Lightyear Frontier, but pixel art

    Loved · 93%Open World Survival Craft · Crafting

  4. 14

    Raft

    Lightyear Frontier, but about survival

    Loved · 93%Open World Survival Craft · Crafting

  5. 16

    Luma Island

    Much the same as Lightyear Frontier

    Liked · 84%Farming Sim · Crafting

  6. 18

    Craftopia

    Lightyear Frontier, but an action RPG

    Mixed · 76%Open World Survival Craft · Crafting

  7. 22

    Factorio

    Lightyear Frontier, but eight times the hours, and even better loved

    Loved · 98%Automation · Base Building

  8. 24

    RuneScape: Dragonwilds

    Lightyear Frontier, but about survival

    Liked · 81%Open World Survival Craft · Crafting

  9. 25Shortest

    Outpath: First Journey

    Lightyear Frontier, but an incremental game, and a quarter of the hours

    Loved · 97%Farming Sim · Base Building

  10. 28

    Core Keeper

    Lightyear Frontier, but pixel art

    Loved · 93%Open World Survival Craft · Crafting

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How this list is made

A game is here when it shares the strongest of Lightyear Frontier's Steam community tags, Steam genres and IGDB themes, each shared tag counting for more the fewer games carry it: two metroidvanias are alike, two action games barely. Games of Lightyear Frontier's own series that play like it stand apart, above the list, and take no place on it. A similar typical length breaks near-ties, and a game sold twice is shown once. A game Steam marks adult-only is listed only for a game that is one too. Games that share the same kinds with Lightyear Frontier stand together, under those kinds. Up to 30 games are shown, and the list stops where they grow much less alike. Where to start: the closest; the best loved of the closest fifteen with 10,000 reviews or more; the shortest of the ones 80% or more recommend; and a hidden gem, 90% or more but under 10,000 reviews.

Under each name, how it differs from Lightyear Frontier: a kind of game it is that Lightyear Frontier is not, a feature its strongest Steam tags carry that Lightyear Frontier's barely do, how many hours people play it beside Lightyear Frontier, and how its reviewers feel beside Lightyear Frontier's.

The sticker on a case is the hours its own page leads with: half of the game's Steam reviewers had played that long or less when they gave their verdict. It is not a time to beat. Under a name, the share of its Steam reviewers who recommend it: loved at 90% or more, liked at 80%, mixed at 65%.