Games like Star Fetchers
If Star Fetchers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hotline Miami, Deadly Escape and Katana ZERO — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and hypnotic. 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 →Star Fetchers is a free-to-play 2D cyberpunk action-adventure game released in 2020 by Svavelstickan. Players navigate a neon underworld using physics-based katana combat with a time-slowing ability, cutting through encounters and upgrading weapons along the way. The game features an endless mode alongside its story content with optional cutscene-skipping. Players describe the atmosphere as atmospheric and contemplative, highlighting a stylish 90s cyberpunk aesthetic and an addictive gameplay loop despite the short length. Reviewers note the combat feels satisfying with varied tools, and appreciate that it runs on almost any system at no cost. The game is playable on Steam Deck, designed for short-burst sessions, and holds a 97% positive rating from nearly 6000 Steam reviews.
About Star Fetchers: The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Steam players who put hours into Star Fetchers 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.
Hotline Miami
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Shares a hypnotic mood with Star Fetchers.
Top pick for Star Fetchers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Fetchers.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
Deadly Escape
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Second-strongest match for Star Fetchers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Fetchers.
Deadly Escape is a Survival Horror game made with pixel art graphics, inspired by survival horror games of the '90s.
Katana ZERO
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Fetchers.
Third-strongest match for Star Fetchers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Fetchers.
Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.
Gungrave G.O.R.E
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Ranked #4 for Star Fetchers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Fetchers.
Gungrave G.O.R.E is a stylish third-person action shooter by South-Korean Studio IGGYMOB in which you take on the role of Grave, a gunslinger of resurrection and badass anti-hero of your dreams, mowing down tons of enemies in a gory ballet of bullets.
House
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Fetchers.
Ranked #5 for Star Fetchers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Fetchers.
Try to survive through the night in a house that's trying its best to kill you and your family.
Critters for Sale
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Fetchers.
Ranked #6 for Star Fetchers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Fetchers.
Experience death from the comfort of your seat.
NOT A HERO
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Ranked #7 for Star Fetchers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Fetchers.
Professional assassin turned amateur campaign manager Steve is charged with cleaning up the city by an anthropomorphic rabbit and mayoral candidate from the future named BunnyLord.
My Big Sister
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Ranked #8 for Star Fetchers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Fetchers.
My name is Luzia...and this story isn't about me, it’s about my sister. Do you still wish to hear it?
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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.
Hotline Miami
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Star Fetchers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Star Fetchers.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
Katana ZERO
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Fetchers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Star Fetchers.
Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.
House
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Fetchers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Star Fetchers.
Try to survive through the night in a house that's trying its best to kill you and your family.
Frequently asked about Star Fetchers
- Does Star Fetchers run on Steam Deck?
- Star Fetchers is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is Star Fetchers free to play?
- Yes — Star Fetchers is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Star Fetchers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Star Fetchers are Hotline Miami, Deadly Escape, Katana ZERO.
- Who developed Star Fetchers?
- Star Fetchers was developed by Svavelstickan.
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 Star Fetchers.
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