Games like StarScraper
If StarScraper is your kind of game, the closest matches are Railway Empire 2, Railway Empire and Transport Fever 2 — 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 StarScraper: So, you’re the new Boss? Seems like every year I get a new entrepreneur to babysit. It takes more than dreams to build a skyscraper! You need to track stocks, utilities, prestige—ah who am I kidding? You're rich, you can do whatever you want. Go on, build rockets into it like the last clown did.
Players who liked StarScraper also play
Steam players who put hours into StarScraper 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.
Railway Empire 2
WHY THIS
Top pick for StarScraper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with StarScraper.
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
Railway Empire
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for StarScraper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with StarScraper.
In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for StarScraper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with StarScraper.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
Mad Tower Tycoon
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for StarScraper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with StarScraper.
Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for StarScraper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with StarScraper.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Captain of Industry
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for StarScraper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with StarScraper.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Mad Games Tycoon 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for StarScraper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with StarScraper.
Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.
Rise of Industry
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for StarScraper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with StarScraper.
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below StarScraper at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under StarScraper on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with StarScraper.
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 StarScraper on Steam right now. Shares Indie with StarScraper.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under StarScraper on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with StarScraper.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under StarScraper on Steam right now. Shares Indie with StarScraper.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under StarScraper on Steam right now. Shares Indie with StarScraper.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under StarScraper on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with StarScraper.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with StarScraper.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with StarScraper.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with StarScraper.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with StarScraper.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with StarScraper.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with StarScraper.
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.
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!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with StarScraper.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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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.
Railway Empire 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with StarScraper.
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with StarScraper.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with StarScraper.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Frequently asked about StarScraper
- How much does StarScraper cost?
- StarScraper is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to StarScraper?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside StarScraper are Railway Empire 2, Railway Empire, Transport Fever 2.
- Who developed StarScraper?
- StarScraper was developed by Mitchell Garrett, Jonathan K-Q and published by Rosae Ex Ludis.
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