Games like Space Pirates and Zombies
If Space Pirates and Zombies is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space Pirates And Zombies 2, Anomalogenos and Star Valor — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its endless replayability, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. 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 →Space Pirates and Zombies is a 2011 indie release combining action, strategy, and RPG elements in a top-down space combat setting. Players manage a fleet, customize ships, and grind currency across replayable missions set in a procedurally generated galaxy populated by various factions and enemies. Reviewers describe the experience as immersive and nostalgic, highlighting endless replayability and the importance of tactical positioning. The game holds a 92% positive rating from over 1,800 Steam reviews and is available for $9.99 USD, running as a playable experience on Steam Deck.
About Space Pirates and Zombies: Explore a randomly generated Galaxy populated with factions, enemies, missions, and items providing you with a unique experience each time you play.
Players who liked Space Pirates and Zombies also play
Steam players who put hours into Space Pirates and Zombies 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.
Space Pirates And Zombies 2
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Top pick for Space Pirates and Zombies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Design and then improve the ultimate mothership. Explore a persistent living galaxy populated by 200 unique captains that can do everything you can do. Survive the zombie infection and then fight them back. Make allies and start your own faction. Build your empire. Also includes Sandbox Mode.
Anomalogenos
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Second-strongest match for Space Pirates and Zombies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
A fishing shooter game where you reel in targets to shoot while dodging enemy bullets! Build diverse strategies using active skills deployable during battle and passive skills that constantly activate!
Star Valor
WHY THIS
Shares fleet management with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Third-strongest match for Space Pirates and Zombies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Choose your own destiny as you explore an open-world procedurally generated galaxy where anything is possible. Become a miner, a trader, a bounty hunter, a pirate, or perhaps a jack of all trades. Start off small and build your way to the top but remember with every action, comes consequences.
Transcendence
WHY THIS
Shares ship customization and an immersive mood with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Ranked #4 for Space Pirates and Zombies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Explore the farthest reaches of Human Space in this open-world space adventure. Compelled to journey to the Galactic Core by a mysterious hyperintelligence, you must fight your way through dozens of star systems teeming with clashing empires, expansionist AIs, and fearsome xenophobes.
Void Destroyer 2
WHY THIS
Shares ship customization and an immersive mood with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Ranked #5 for Space Pirates and Zombies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.
Reassembly
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Ranked #6 for Space Pirates and Zombies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Pirates and Zombies.
A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.
VoidExpanse
WHY THIS
Shares fleet management with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Ranked #7 for Space Pirates and Zombies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Explore the vast reaches of VoidExpanse -- mine asteroids, upgrade your ship, trade, complete missions, advance your character and survive fast-paced combat with hostile aliens and mercenaries in the rich and exciting Sci-Fi universe of VoidExpanse!
Windward
WHY THIS
Shares ship customization with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Ranked #8 for Space Pirates and Zombies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Windward is an action-filled multiplayer sandbox game that puts you in control of a ship sailing the high seas of a large procedurally-generated world.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Space Pirates and Zombies
Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.
Starvector
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Reviewers of Space Pirates and Zombies cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
Starcom: Nexus
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Shares ship customization and an immersive mood with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Reviewers of Space Pirates and Zombies cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Suddenly thrown into an unknown galaxy, you must explore, fight or befriend aliens and transform your ship from a small survey vessel into a powerful battlecruiser to unravel the mystery of the forces that brought you here and find your way home.
Croak Crusader: Spawn of the Spore Spectre
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Space Pirates and Zombies cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Embark on an odyssey into the unknown! Behold the tale of Toadman, an enigmatic being born from alien tech and the mysteries of Radiant Verde. Witness his perilous quest through treacherous jungles to confront Captain Croak in an epic showdown! Welcome to "Spawn of the Spore Spectre"!
SPORE™
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Space Pirates and Zombies cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Space Pirates and Zombies at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Space Pirates and Zombies on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
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
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Priced ~50% under Space Pirates and Zombies on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Space Pirates and Zombies on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Pirates and Zombies.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Space Pirates and Zombies on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Space Pirates and Zombies on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Space Pirates and Zombies on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Space Pirates and Zombies on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Space Pirates and Zombies on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Pirates and Zombies.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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More from MinMax Games Ltd.
Other recommendable Steam games by MinMax Games Ltd., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Clanfolk
WHY THIS
Another title from MinMax Games Ltd., the studio behind Space Pirates and Zombies. Shares Strategy and RPG with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Space Pirates And Zombies 2
WHY THIS
Another title from MinMax Games Ltd., the studio behind Space Pirates and Zombies. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Design and then improve the ultimate mothership. Explore a persistent living galaxy populated by 200 unique captains that can do everything you can do. Survive the zombie infection and then fight them back. Make allies and start your own faction. Build your empire. Also includes Sandbox Mode.
GolfTopia
WHY THIS
Another title from MinMax Games Ltd., the studio behind Space Pirates and Zombies. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
DESIGN, BUILD and MANAGE your own futuristic golf course. Keep 200 persistent visitors fed, hydrated, and happy. Defend your creation from a growing infestation of weeds with robotic workers and defensive turrets. Evolve your course into a mega resort where nobody wants to go home, EVER!
No Creeps Were Harmed TD
WHY THIS
Another title from MinMax Games Ltd., the studio behind Space Pirates and Zombies. Shares Strategy with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Employ lethal turrets, traps, and gadgets to defend against an onslaught of evolving creeps! Step into a twisted, hyper 3D, mind bending realm. Upgrade and adapt your defenses. Become a master maze crafter. Collect bizarre artifacts. Rush creeps for lucrative rewards, and succumb to greed!
Frequently asked about Space Pirates and Zombies
- Does Space Pirates and Zombies run on Steam Deck?
- Space Pirates and Zombies is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Space Pirates and Zombies cost?
- Space Pirates and Zombies is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Space Pirates and Zombies?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Space Pirates and Zombies are Space Pirates And Zombies 2, Anomalogenos, Star Valor.
- Who developed Space Pirates and Zombies?
- Space Pirates and Zombies was developed by MinMax Games Ltd..
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