Interkosmos similar games & best alternatives

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Interkosmos

PC (Microsoft Windows), SteamVR • 2017

Should you play it?

Enter the ultimate 1970s space capsule in this thrilling VR adventure. Awaken your inner cosmonaut with intense, interactive gameplay, manage catastrophic system failures, and experience a hilarious story of Cold War absurdities. Can you make it back to Earth alive?

What works

  • Immersive and unique vr experience
  • Engaging and humorous narrative
  • Detailed and tactile cockpit interactions
  • Good value for price
  • Hard mode adds meaningful challenge

Things to keep in mind

  • Short gameplay length
  • Limited replayability
  • Clunky or imprecise controls especially on some vr hardware
  • Linear and on-rails gameplay
  • Some bugs and performance issues reported

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Human-powered spacecraft

  • THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE: Foreword

  • We Went Back

  • Iron Lung

  • Observation

  • MOLE

More exploratory

Games that feels like Interkosmos but with more exploration of areas and secrets

  • Outer Wilds

  • Scavenger SV-4

  • Cosmodread

  • System Shock

  • AETHUS

  • Subnautica

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Similarity map

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Interkosmos. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Interkosmos. These titles are not in What to play next.

Interkosmos: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Competition. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Exploration, Continuation.

Last update: 21/08/2026