Games like ASTRO: The Beginning
If ASTRO: The Beginning is your kind of game, the closest matches are Syder Arcade, Starr Mazer: DSP and SATAZIUS — picked from the ranked list below. 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 ASTRO: The Beginning: ASTRO: The Beginning is a dynamic side scrolling shoot 'em up about a close-knit space team caught in a clusterf*ck of epic proportions.Unravel the evil plans of your foes and secrets of world order while taking down various types of enemies and engaging in crazy boss battles.
Players who liked ASTRO: The Beginning also play
Steam players who put hours into ASTRO: The Beginning 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.
Syder Arcade
WHY THIS
Top pick for ASTRO: The Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
Killing zombies never gets old, but sometimes you just need a break. Get back to some serious old-school gaming with Syder Arcade! Syder Arcade is a love letter to Amiga games of the ‘90s, no coins, no upgrade grinding, just your tenacity and a motherload of alien invaders.
Starr Mazer: DSP
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for ASTRO: The Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
The UNFP's been kicked in the teeth by a G'ell invasion force and their last and only hope is a planetary outpost and its fleet of experimental DSP MkI Forward Assault Fighters and anyone marshal enough to strap into one and forcefully accept some apologies.
SATAZIUS
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for ASTRO: The Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
The year is 2051. Location: SATAZIUS, a long-abandoned planet. The cruiser Agano was on patrol when it was attacked and stricken by a confederacy of space pirates that had established a base on SATAZIUS. The pirates attacked the Agano intending to steal the assault ship ‘Trafalgar’ that was stowed aboard the Agano, but the Trafalgar made...
Steredenn: Binary Stars
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for ASTRO: The Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
Steredenn is a frenetic and chaotic space shooter, carved in big beautiful pixels, with insane boss battles. Embark in your ship and engage the fight against dreadful space pirates in a never-ending combat for your survival.
Enemy Mind
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for ASTRO: The Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
A retro shooter with a new power: the power to become any ship.Lost in the depths of space, you are a being of pure psychic energy with the uncanny power to take over and control anything you see in order to survive.Built for PC, Enemy Mind lets you battle your way through 70+ waves of challenging enemies.
DRAINUS
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for ASTRO: The Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
This is a side-scrolling shooting game in which you take control of the "Drainus", the Kharlal Empire's most cutting-edge fighter with the ability to absorb energy bullets, and take down the enemy ships zipping through space.
R-Type Dimensions EX
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for ASTRO: The Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with ASTRO: The Beginning.
R-Type and R-Type II, the legendary coin-op space shooters, are now together on Steam!
Earthion
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for ASTRO: The Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with ASTRO: The Beginning.
Earthion is a side-scrolling space shooter developed natively for 16-bit systems. Guide space fighter pilot Azusa Takanashi in her fight to repel the alien invaders and save planet Earth.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ASTRO: The Beginning at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ASTRO: The Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
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 ~50% under ASTRO: The Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
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 ASTRO: The Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Action with ASTRO: The Beginning.
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 ASTRO: The Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
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 ASTRO: The Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under ASTRO: The Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under ASTRO: The Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ASTRO: The Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 ASTRO: The Beginning.
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 and Adventure with ASTRO: The Beginning.
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 ASTRO: The Beginning.
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 ASTRO: The Beginning.
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 ASTRO: The Beginning.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with ASTRO: The Beginning.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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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.
Enemy Mind
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
A retro shooter with a new power: the power to become any ship.Lost in the depths of space, you are a being of pure psychic energy with the uncanny power to take over and control anything you see in order to survive.Built for PC, Enemy Mind lets you battle your way through 70+ waves of challenging enemies.
DRAINUS
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
This is a side-scrolling shooting game in which you take control of the "Drainus", the Kharlal Empire's most cutting-edge fighter with the ability to absorb energy bullets, and take down the enemy ships zipping through space.
R-Type Dimensions EX
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with ASTRO: The Beginning.
R-Type and R-Type II, the legendary coin-op space shooters, are now together on Steam!
Earthion
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with ASTRO: The Beginning.
Earthion is a side-scrolling space shooter developed natively for 16-bit systems. Guide space fighter pilot Azusa Takanashi in her fight to repel the alien invaders and save planet Earth.
Frequently asked about ASTRO: The Beginning
- How much does ASTRO: The Beginning cost?
- ASTRO: The Beginning is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ASTRO: The Beginning?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ASTRO: The Beginning are Syder Arcade, Starr Mazer: DSP, SATAZIUS.
- Who developed ASTRO: The Beginning?
- ASTRO: The Beginning was developed by BigGame Studio and published by BigGame Publishing.
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 ASTRO: The Beginning.
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