Games like Galactic Refugees
If Galactic Refugees is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space War: Infinity, ASSAULT SHELL and Nevultra — 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.
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Space War: Infinity
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Top pick for Galactic Refugees fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Refugees.
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.
ASSAULT SHELL
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Galactic Refugees fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Refugees.
Engage in an action packed shoot em' up adventure! Choose from 4 powerful fighters and fight through 5 intense stages! Multiple tough and challenging bosses stand in your way, so use the insanity system BLANK STAND to erase them all!
Nevultra
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Galactic Refugees fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Galactic Refugees.
Nevultra is an exciting shoot'em up that will take you back to the 8bit/16bit era. The protagonist, Nina, needs your help to reach her destination in deep space.
Infinity Lancer
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Ranked #4 for Galactic Refugees fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Galactic Refugees.
Infinity Lancer is a high octane vertical shoot em' up. Race across the galaxy fighting to prevent humanity's annihilation and discover the dark truth behind the endless war.
ActionSteam ↗Armored Firestorm
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Galactic Refugees fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Galactic Refugees.
Armored Firestorm is an intense top-down shoot'em up action game in a futurist environments. At the controls of your Hovertank, survive against the attack of the machines in the orbital city of the federation.
ASSAULT SHELL 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Galactic Refugees fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Refugees.
A high-risk, high reward shoot em up as you power yourself and your enemies up to bring utter chaos to the battlefield!
Append
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Galactic Refugees fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Refugees.
Destroy friends, strangers, or bots in this online multiplayer arena shooter. Collect powerups, combine weapons, build your defenses and obliterate the opposition. Hundreds of weapon combinations and multiple game modes.
Phoenix 2
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Ranked #8 for Galactic Refugees fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Refugees.
A fast-paced shoot 'em up where skill matters. Master over 100 ships, unleash powerful special abilities, and blast through waves of Invaders. Play a new mission every day and climb the world-wide leaderboards.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Galactic Refugees at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Galactic Refugees on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Refugees.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Galactic Refugees on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Galactic Refugees.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~63% under Galactic Refugees on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Galactic Refugees.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Galactic Refugees on Steam right now. Shares Action with Galactic Refugees.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Galactic Refugees on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Galactic Refugees.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~50% under Galactic Refugees on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Galactic Refugees.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~50% under Galactic Refugees on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Galactic Refugees.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~75% under Galactic Refugees on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Refugees.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
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 with Galactic Refugees.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Galactic Refugees.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Refugees.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Galactic Refugees.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Galactic Refugees.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Galactic Refugees.
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.
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Frequently asked about Galactic Refugees
- How much does Galactic Refugees cost?
- Galactic Refugees is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Galactic Refugees?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Galactic Refugees are Space War: Infinity, ASSAULT SHELL, Nevultra.
- Who developed Galactic Refugees?
- Galactic Refugees was developed by Easy Peazy Games.
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 Galactic Refugees.
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