Games like Starlight Explorers
If Starlight Explorers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pulsar, The VR Experience, GalactiWar - Empire Simulator and Celestial Golf — 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 Starlight Explorers: Master physics in one compelling physics puzzle after another. Aim the launcher and adjust its power, using your understanding of gravity wells to correctly plot their courses in a variety of challenges. Complete a light-hearted story and then test yourself in the endless Expeditions mode.
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Pulsar, The VR Experience
WHY THIS
Top pick for Starlight Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starlight Explorers.
PULSAR is an award-winning 40-minute Immersive Art Installation with occasional interaction: a tribute to the imaginative spirit of six-year-old Eloise who lost her battle with leukemia. Three portals into deep space. Three unique, music-driven journeys.
GalactiWar - Empire Simulator
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Starlight Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starlight Explorers.
Watch empires rise and fall, or intervene with godly powers, in GalactiWar, a space empire simulation sandbox game.
Celestial Golf
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Starlight Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starlight Explorers.
It’s 2D golf on an astronomical scale. Bite-sized missions will teach you the techniques of real space flight, without having to worry about fuel or crew. Precisely plan orbital trajectories over the moons of Mars, through the rings of Saturn, and boldly go where no golf ball has gone before.
ΔV: Rings of Saturn
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Starlight Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starlight Explorers.
A physics-based mining sim, set in the thickest debris field in Sol. Every action has a reaction, lasers are invisible without a medium, and your thrust is a potent weapon. Find trade, adapt your equipment to your playstyle, hire a crew to help. Unravel the mysteries of the rings, or just get rich.
Inspiral: Echoes of Gravity
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Starlight Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starlight Explorers.
Start as an asteroid, grow by absorbing other celestial bodies to become a planet, a star, and ultimately a black hole. Experience realistic gravity and orbital physics in an ever-evolving sandbox universe.
Orbital Traffic Controller
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Starlight Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starlight Explorers.
Orbital Traffic Controller is a sci-fi spaceship management game set in the Solar System. Become an interstellar traffic controller, directing vessels from planetary holding patterns and warp gates to atmospheric reentry, all while avoiding collisions with other spacecraft and planetary bodies.
OVERVIEW (A Walk Through The Universe)
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Starlight Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starlight Explorers.
Overview is a mind-changing experience about our position in the Universe. With a narrative and an interactive mode, it features realistic imagery and accurate data to leave you in awe and wonder at the vastness of the Cosmos.
Space Wrangler
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Starlight Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starlight Explorers.
Space Wrangler is a dynamic space sandbox featuring multiple experiences designed to offer variety in gameplay. Experience the wonders and turmoil of Space as you traverse the cosmos as part of a new generation of explorers, frontiersmen, and cowboys.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Starlight Explorers at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Starlight Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starlight Explorers.
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 ~50% under Starlight Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starlight Explorers.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Starlight Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starlight Explorers.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Starlight Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starlight Explorers.
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 ~83% under Starlight Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Starlight Explorers.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Starlight Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Starlight Explorers.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Starlight Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Starlight Explorers.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Starlight Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Starlight Explorers.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Starlight Explorers.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Starlight Explorers.
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 and Simulation with Starlight Explorers.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starlight Explorers.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starlight Explorers.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starlight Explorers.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starlight Explorers.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Starlight Explorers
- How much does Starlight Explorers cost?
- Starlight Explorers is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Starlight Explorers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Starlight Explorers are Pulsar, The VR Experience, GalactiWar - Empire Simulator, Celestial Golf.
- Who developed Starlight Explorers?
- Starlight Explorers was developed by Dire Kitten Games.
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