Games like PAL

Looking for that same tense and scary spark as PAL? These games make natural next picks for you.

Tin Can
Your ship exploded. Now you drift in an escape pod where every fuse, filter and wire matters, armed with a manual and your own wits. Fix systems, watch your breathing go ragged as oxygen runs low, and see how long you last before the cosmos wins.
Tense, Scary, Dark
84% of 1,077 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Space Ship Commander
You and your space buddy must do whatever it takes to make it to your destination, wherever it is... The hard part about this journey is that your space ship is constantly breaking! Make repairs and avoid getting hit by asteroids in order to survive. Rack up points by fixing broken stations and shooting asteroids.
Tense, Retro
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
PULSAR: Lost Colony
Run a starship with your friends in a randomized galaxy falling apart at the seams. Five roles, one ship, endless decisions: pilot, reroute power, hack enemy systems, fire the nukes. Best with a crew, playable solo with bots.
Tense
89% of 4,414 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$19.99
Homeostasis
The stars aren't quite right and there is no one left to ask why. Navigate a desolate snowscape in your lone vehicle, keep your systems running and discover the fate of the expedition that came before you in this short retro survival horror experience.
Tense, Scary, Dark
78% of 23 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Void
Feel the inhuman tension of outer space - floating between bits of debris - struggling to conserve air and fuel - experiencing a hauntingly personal tragedy.
Tense, Scary, Dark
52% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Space Haven
Build a spaceship tile by tile, keep its air breathable and its crew fed, then jump it toward a new home. Space Haven is a colony sim about designing the ship, managing fragile civilians inside it, and salvaging what you need from derelicts, asteroids, and rival factions along the way.
Dark, Atmospheric, Retro
85% of 10,433 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 626$24.99
Jitter
A sci-fi exploration & survival game where you take on the role of a spaceship’s AI. Explore, fight, and survive across a mining colony in the Main Asteroid Belt. Rebuild your ship. Rescue your crew. Reveal the truth behind your mission.
Tense, Atmospheric, Retro
84% of 166 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
HUNTED
A sit 'n' survive set on board a spaceship. Aliens have made it inside, and you need to defend yourself. Viewing cameras, shutting doors, blocking vents, and sounding alarms is your only hope. You must last 5 days while backup arrives.
Tense, Scary, Dark
90% of 10 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Lost Astronaut
Control a spaceship and attempts to land safely on blue platforms. You can move the ship and burn fuel to fire a thruster, attempting to gently land on marked areas. A new scenario is loaded after every successful landing.
Tense, Retro
85% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Duskers
Pilot drones into dead spaceships by typing commands into a terminal, scavenge fuel and parts to keep your own ship alive, and piece together why the universe went quiet. A tense, atmospheric sci-fi roguelike where every open door might hold salvage, or something that heard you coming.
Tense, Scary, Dark
90% of 2,319 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$19.99
a dead astronaut in space
Your computer has accidentally connected to the communication channel of an astronaut whose oxygen is running out—an astronaut stranded in space with only three hours left.
Tense, Dark, Atmospheric
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
STAR TALE: Odyssey One
This is not a rescue mission. No one is coming. This is survival. You awaken alone aboard an infested colony ship carrying the last survivors of humanity. Restore critical systems, manage oxygen, and confront hostile organisms while the AI guiding you seems to be hiding something.
Tense, Scary, Dark
75% of 16 Steam reviews are positiveFree

Hidden gems like PAL

Approximately Up

Assemble a ship from thousands of parts, wire its systems together, and take it to fifteen strange planets, alone or with friends.

$18.74

Endless Dark

An existential horror game in which you are tasked with keeping a sleeper colony ship intact.

$7.99

Jitter

A sci-fi exploration & survival game where you take on the role of a spaceship’s AI.

$9.99

Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop

Repair strange spaceships by the manual, pay your corporate landlord, and see how long you last before it all goes wrong again.

$19.99

Voyager-19

You pilot a crumbling space probe through distant star systems, searching for a lost expedition.

$3.99

Space Haven

Build a spaceship tile by tile, keep its air breathable and its crew fed, then jump it toward a new home.

$24.99

Moon Runner

You are tasked with urgent maintenance on a small moon. Find the monoliths and manage your survival to complete your mysterious assignment.

Free

Tin Can

Keep a battered escape pod breathing in the void, managing every system by hand as the air runs thin.

$19.99

PULSAR: Lost Colony

Take a station on a starship and explore a procedurally generated galaxy with your friends, where every jump can turn into a fight for survival.

$19.99

Hardspace: Shipbreaker

Slice open derelict hulls in zero gravity, salvaging every part you can before the reactor goes up.

$34.99

Scavenger SV-4

Scavenger SV-4 is a highly replayable atmospheric first-person science fiction game.

$14.99

Breathedge

Scavenge a wrecked space hearse, craft from scraps and build a station while a strange mystery unfolds around you.

$24.99

Newest games like PAL

Casualties: Unknown

Descend an alien planet's caves as an expendable test subject, patching wounds and crafting tools to survive each layer.

$19.54

SIGNAL LOST

Signal Lost is a time-survival psychological horror game that leaves you stranded inside a collapsing pod.

$7.99

STAR TALE: Odyssey One

This is not a rescue mission. No one is coming. This is survival.

Free

Homeostasis

The stars aren't quite right and there is no one left to ask why.

$8.99

Approximately Up

Assemble a ship from thousands of parts, wire its systems together, and take it to fifteen strange planets, alone or with friends.

$18.74

Ostranauts

Buy a broken ship in a cut-off solar system, then keep yourself and your crew alive one scrappy repair at a time.

$19.99

MOLE

Drive a giant drilling rig into the dark, keep its failing systems alive, and follow a call that will not stop.

$12.99

Space Haven

Build a spaceship tile by tile, keep its air breathable and its crew fed, then jump it toward a new home.

$24.99

Angel Engine

Cage an angel. Ransack Heaven. In a far-flung dystopian future, the Angel Engine Initiative carries on as the last hope for humanity.

$7.99

HUNTED

A sit 'n' survive set on board a spaceship. Aliens have made it inside, and you need to defend yourself.

Free

Don't Crash

Don't Crash is a fast-paced space survival dodging game. Pilot the Argo explorer through shifting cosmic hazards, using speed, sharp turns to escape…

$4.99

HELL OF FEAR: Mind Breach

Step into the boots of Major Axel Vex in this survival horror descent into deep space.

$11.04