Games like Rogue Star Rescue
If Rogue Star Rescue is your kind of game, the closest matches are Uber Destruction, Red Zirion and Voidigo — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and epic. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Rogue Star Rescue: Bullet Hell Insanity + Tower Defense Strategy. Rogue Star Rescue is a quirky new type of rogue-like shooter. Blast your way through diverse planets while rescuing your teammates and gathering traps for your defense strategy. Play solo or online to stop the Rogue Star before it annihilates everything!
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Steam players who put hours into Rogue Star Rescue also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Uber Destruction
WHY THIS
Top pick for Rogue Star Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
Uber Destruction is a side-scrolling roguelike top-down shooter. loot chests, gather insane weapons and unique upgrades to battle the relentless hoards of foes. You can also embrace the action online with friends, or in local co-op mode. Destroy your way to victory!
Red Zirion
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Rogue Star Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
Red Zirion is a retro shooting game with upgradeable attributes in the roguelike style. Game inspired by groups of heroes and animated series from the 80s.
Voidigo
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rogue Star Rescue.
Third-strongest match for Rogue Star Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
A vividly animated action roguelite focused on boss hunting. Unleash an array of diverse weapons and powerups to combat the corruption of the Void.
Hostile Lands
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Rogue Star Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
Hostile Lands is a 2D top-down, roguelite shooter where a crash landing is mistaken for an act of war. LOOT tons of unique guns. ENHANCE your skills. RESCUE surviving crew members and ESCAPE...if you can.
Danger Scavenger
WHY THIS
Shares twin stick shooting and an atmospheric mood with Rogue Star Rescue.
Ranked #5 for Rogue Star Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
Danger Scavenger is fast-paced action, cyberpunk-themed, roguelite skyline crawler. Blow up, cut, shoot enemy robots on the roofs of skyscrapers. Choose your way to higher levels, loot, buy stuff, upgrade yourself, fight against greedy corporations, be a rebel!
Woodpunk
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rogue Star Rescue.
Ranked #6 for Rogue Star Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
Woodpunk is an exhilarating roguelike bullet hell retro pixel art shooter in a medieval Woodpunk universe, where the primary energy resource is WOOD.
Devader
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Rogue Star Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Rogue Star Rescue.
Devader is an intense 90's-style twin-stick shooter, complete with crazy old-school bosses, powerful strategic abilities and multiple endings. Upgrade your robot with nukes, shields, turrets and more to exterminate the relentless invaders.
Shape Shifter: Formations
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Rogue Star Rescue.
Ranked #8 for Rogue Star Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Rogue Star Rescue.
Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build.
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Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Shares twin stick shooting with Rogue Star Rescue.
Reviewers of Rogue Star Rescue cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Rogue Star Rescue.
Reviewers of Rogue Star Rescue cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
DuckTales: Remastered
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Rogue Star Rescue cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Rogue Star Rescue.
DuckTales: Remastered is a beautiful hand-crafted reimagining of one of the most cherished 8-bit titles of all time. Go back to one of the golden ages of gaming, now refined with a level of detail that will please the most hardened devoted Disney or retro Capcom fan alike.
Enter the Gungeon
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Rogue Star Rescue.
Reviewers of Rogue Star Rescue cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Rogue Star Rescue.
Reviewers of Rogue Star Rescue cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Hades
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Rogue Star Rescue.
Reviewers of Rogue Star Rescue cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rogue Star Rescue at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Rogue Star Rescue on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Rogue Star Rescue on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Rogue Star Rescue on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rogue Star Rescue.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Rogue Star Rescue on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Rogue Star Rescue on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rogue Star Rescue.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rogue Star Rescue on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rogue Star Rescue.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Rogue Star Rescue on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Rogue Star Rescue on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Meteor 60 Seconds!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
Meteor 60 seconds! is a simple, fun, comic-like action game that simulates your life if there were a meteor heading towards Earth and you had 60 seconds to live. Do anything you want to do with your last 60 seconds, even if it's illegal! What about planting an apple tree?
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
Play as Chelshia the chimera in this platforming beat-em-up adventure into the wonderful world of monster girls!
Wheelchair Wizards
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.
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More from Chute Apps
Other recommendable Steam games by Chute Apps, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Forest Fire
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Rogue Star Rescue.
Another title from Chute Apps, the studio behind Rogue Star Rescue. Shares Action with Rogue Star Rescue.
Be the Forest Fire and burn everything in sight! A Rogue-lite destruction-fest where every pixel is physically simulated. Burn trees, buildings, vehicles, and tiny screaming humans. Dodge bullet-hell rain clouds and pissed-off firefighters to stay alive... Only YOU can start Forest Fires.
Sandbox Skyline
WHY THIS
Another title from Chute Apps, the studio behind Rogue Star Rescue. Shares Strategy with Rogue Star Rescue.
Build impressive skyscrapers pixel-by-pixel, and protect them from the harsh realities of nature. Each pixel is physically simulated to interact with earthquakes, firestorms, blizzards, and tsunamis. Protect your skyline and expand your territory in this relaxing (yet challenging) sandbox builder.
Infest
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Rogue Star Rescue.
Another title from Chute Apps, the studio behind Rogue Star Rescue. Shares Strategy with Rogue Star Rescue.
Infest is a roguelike deckbuilder where every pixel on the battlefield can burn, freeze, corrode, shock, and melt. Carefully craft your deck and deploy cards to alter the environment, buff your stats, and unleash stunning pixel-by-pixel damage upon your enemies!
Repterra
WHY THIS
Another title from Chute Apps, the studio behind Rogue Star Rescue. Shares Strategy with Rogue Star Rescue.
Repterra is a base-building survival RTS set in a world overrun by dinosaurs. Manage your colony while battling massive dino hordes. Breed and ride your own dinos, unlock permanent upgrades, and fight to reclaim the world for humanity.
Mega Prison
WHY THIS
Another title from Chute Apps, the studio behind Rogue Star Rescue. Shares Strategy with Rogue Star Rescue.
Mega Prison is a prison defense and riot-control strategy game. Deploy guards, dogs, water cannons, barriers, and riot vehicles to contain thousands of inmates as unrest escalates. Manage resources, hold the line, and KEEP THEM IN... at any cost!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Voidigo
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rogue Star Rescue.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
A vividly animated action roguelite focused on boss hunting. Unleash an array of diverse weapons and powerups to combat the corruption of the Void.
Danger Scavenger
WHY THIS
Shares twin stick shooting and an atmospheric mood with Rogue Star Rescue.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Star Rescue.
Danger Scavenger is fast-paced action, cyberpunk-themed, roguelite skyline crawler. Blow up, cut, shoot enemy robots on the roofs of skyscrapers. Choose your way to higher levels, loot, buy stuff, upgrade yourself, fight against greedy corporations, be a rebel!
Shape Shifter: Formations
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Rogue Star Rescue.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with Rogue Star Rescue.
Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build.
Frequently asked about Rogue Star Rescue
- How much does Rogue Star Rescue cost?
- Rogue Star Rescue is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Rogue Star Rescue have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Rogue Star Rescue supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Rogue Star Rescue?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rogue Star Rescue are Uber Destruction, Red Zirion, Voidigo.
- Who developed Rogue Star Rescue?
- Rogue Star Rescue was developed by Chute Apps.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Rogue Star Rescue.
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