Games like Starsand
If Starsand is your kind of game, the closest matches are Terafall: Survival, Breathedge and Satisfactory — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and mysterious. 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 Starsand: Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Players who liked Starsand also play
Steam players who put hours into Starsand 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.
Terafall: Survival
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Starsand.
Top pick for Starsand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Starsand.
Terafall is a procedurally generated, open-world sandbox RPG all about exploring a new world to save your own dying planet from extinction, with a strong focus on non-linearity and character progression.
Breathedge
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Starsand.
Second-strongest match for Starsand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Starsand.
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Starsand.
Third-strongest match for Starsand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Starsand.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Starsand.
Ranked #4 for Starsand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Starsand.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Survival: Fountain of Youth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Starsand.
Ranked #5 for Starsand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Starsand.
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Miniland Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Starsand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Starsand.
The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!
Saleblazers
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Starsand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Starsand.
Fight. Sell. Survive. Live off the land, build your perfect shop, and defend against nightly horrors in this open world survival shop simulator for 1-8 players.
Survive on Raft
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Starsand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Starsand.
Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Starsand at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Starsand on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Starsand.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Starsand on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Starsand.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Starsand on Steam right now. Shares Action with Starsand.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Starsand on Steam right now. Shares Action and Simulation with Starsand.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Starsand on Steam right now. Shares Action with Starsand.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Starsand on Steam right now. Shares Action with Starsand.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Starsand.
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 with Starsand.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Starsand.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Starsand.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Starsand.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Starsand.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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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.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Starsand.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Starsand.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Starsand.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Starsand.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Saleblazers
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Starsand.
Fight. Sell. Survive. Live off the land, build your perfect shop, and defend against nightly horrors in this open world survival shop simulator for 1-8 players.
Frequently asked about Starsand
- Is Starsand verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Starsand is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Starsand cost?
- Starsand is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Starsand?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Starsand are Terafall: Survival, Breathedge, Satisfactory.
- Who developed Starsand?
- Starsand was developed by Tunnel Vision Studio and published by Toplitz Productions.
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