Games like BroodStar
If BroodStar is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tri-Star, Blast'N Bounty and Space War: Infinity — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and nostalgic. 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 BroodStar: BroodStar is a classic arcade shmup with roguelike elements. Acquire crazy item combos, encounter strange events and fight challenging bosses on a quest to destroy the living planet, the BroodStar.
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Steam players who put hours into BroodStar 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.
Tri-Star
WHY THIS
Top pick for BroodStar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with BroodStar.
Tri-Star is an endless horizontal-scrolling space shooter featuring Roguelike and Roguelite elements. Blast through waves of enemies and battle against arduous bosses. Form a squadron of three unique ships from an expanding roster and equip them with upgrades as you engage in a battle for survival.
Blast'N Bounty
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for BroodStar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BroodStar.
Blast’N Bounty is a vertical scrolling shoot’em up featuring 8 stages players can tackle in the order of their choosing. Cruise through a crazy solar system in a mix of pixel art and low poly 3D with action that’s easy to learn but tough to master!
Space War: Infinity
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with BroodStar.
Third-strongest match for BroodStar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BroodStar.
Vertical semi-procedural shmup with upgrades, real-time enemy waves, and infinite replayability. Level up your ship, unlock 20+ weapons, defeat 5 bosses, and survive endless bullet-hell combat.
Void Scrappers
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with BroodStar.
Ranked #4 for BroodStar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with BroodStar.
Blast hordes of alien ships into junk. Collect the scrap to upgrade your ship into an unstoppable force of destruction. Unlock new characters and weapons and upgrade your stats between runs.
Steredenn: Binary Stars
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with BroodStar.
Ranked #5 for BroodStar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BroodStar.
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.
Akka Arrh
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for BroodStar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with BroodStar.
Akka Arrh is a modern take on a scrapped project from the 1980s, providing players with a fast-paced, addictive, arcade shooter experience and psychedelic visuals. Protect your life rings as you chain together combos and go for a high score!
Stellar Interface
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with BroodStar.
Ranked #7 for BroodStar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BroodStar.
Run through the universe in this rogue-like-ish space-shooter. Discover the numerous perks/consumables and their synergistic effects. Explore the randomly-generated galaxy to find merchants, unlock spacecrafts, collect Cartridges and checkmark your kills of the various galactic overlords.
Peace Data
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for BroodStar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BroodStar.
Peace Data — hard "Roguelike" game, in which you have to play for Bitard, saving Rusland from the tyranny of the authorities that destroyed the opposition and led the country to ruin, making slaves of citizens.
Reviewers mention these as similar to BroodStar
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Monolith
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with BroodStar.
Reviewers of BroodStar cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with BroodStar.
A classical science fiction point and click adventure which takes you into a deep story and murky atmosphere, while solving logical puzzles. Accompany Tessa Carter and her talking robot as she finds out about herself and searches for a way to survive.
Space Invaders Extreme
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with BroodStar.
Reviewers of BroodStar cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with BroodStar.
The critically acclaimed update to the Space Invaders franchise has arrived to invade Steam with greatly improved graphics and audio! Packed with pulsing, vibrant visuals enhanced further by interactive sound. The invaders have evolved, the question is: can you keep up?
Space Aliens Invaders
WHY THIS
Reviewers of BroodStar cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with BroodStar.
modernized old time classic alien shooter game
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below BroodStar at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under BroodStar on Steam right now. Shares Indie with BroodStar.
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 ~55% under BroodStar on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with BroodStar.
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 ~59% under BroodStar on Steam right now. Shares Action with BroodStar.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under BroodStar on Steam right now. Shares Indie with BroodStar.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under BroodStar on Steam right now. Shares Indie with BroodStar.
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 ~55% under BroodStar on Steam right now. Shares Indie with BroodStar.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~91% under BroodStar on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with BroodStar.
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 ~73% under BroodStar on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with BroodStar.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with BroodStar.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with BroodStar.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with BroodStar.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with BroodStar.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with BroodStar.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with BroodStar.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about BroodStar
- Does BroodStar run on Steam Deck?
- BroodStar 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 BroodStar cost?
- BroodStar is listed on Steam at 10.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to BroodStar?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside BroodStar are Tri-Star, Blast'N Bounty, Space War: Infinity.
- Who developed BroodStar?
- BroodStar was developed by David Schmidthoffer, Mae Livingston and published by David Schmidthoffer.
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