Games like Starship Simulator
If Starship Simulator is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space Travellers, DarkHelm and PULSAR: Lost Colony — 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 Starship Simulator: Explore a scientifically accurate Milky Way galaxy and discover distant uncharted worlds, while having unrestricted access to every deck of your Magellan Class deep space exploration vessel. Interact with numerous fully simulated ship systems, or simply relax in the bar and watch the stars drift by.
Players who liked Starship Simulator also play
Steam players who put hours into Starship Simulator 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 Travellers
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Top pick for Starship Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Starship Simulator.
Space Travellers is a unique open-world sandbox space simulator set in the year 2343. Travel the galaxy, trade, explore unexplored worlds, fight, build bases and factories, forge alliances and experience new adventures!
DarkHelm
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Second-strongest match for Starship Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Starship Simulator.
A co-op starship bridge sim for 6–25 players. Man a station — helm, weapons, sensors, engineering, comms or command — and no one can fly the ship alone. Communicate, coordinate, and survive together.
PULSAR: Lost Colony
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Third-strongest match for Starship Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Starship Simulator.
The co-op open-world space sim where everyone has a role! Pilot the ship. Reroute power. Launch nukes. Explore alien planets. Research new talents. Work together to find the Lost Colony! ...or just deliver some biscuits
Archean
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Ranked #4 for Starship Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Starship Simulator.
Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.
Ostranauts
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Ranked #5 for Starship Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Starship Simulator.
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
Flight Of Nova
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Ranked #6 for Starship Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Starship Simulator.
Flight of Nova is a simulator based on newtonian mechanics in which you control spacecraft in the Noren star system. You fly multiple types of spacecraft doing transport and search missions in an environment with realistic aerodynamics and orbital physics.
Avorion
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Ranked #7 for Starship Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Starship Simulator.
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
QANGA
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Ranked #8 for Starship Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Starship Simulator.
QANGA: 750 years after humanity's fall, you must survive in a shattered world where Earth itself demands vengeance. Tear through the fabric of space to face the Voss, awaken the ancient civilisation, and dare to challenge the Sanglines, born from the bowels of a world that condemned you.
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Frequently asked about Starship Simulator
- Is Starship Simulator free to play?
- Yes — Starship Simulator 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.
- Does Starship Simulator have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Starship Simulator supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Starship Simulator?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Starship Simulator are Space Travellers, DarkHelm, PULSAR: Lost Colony.
- Who developed Starship Simulator?
- Starship Simulator was developed by Fleetyard Studios.
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 Starship Simulator.
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