Games like The Last Starship
If The Last Starship is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space Haven, ExoColony: Planet Survival and Stardeus — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 →The Last Starship is a strategy and simulation game from Introversion Software in which players design, build, and operate their own starships across procedurally generated star systems. The sandbox-style ship construction allows for deep customization, while factory simulation and automation mechanics require careful logistics management as players gather resources and manage crew. Career paths include roles such as pirate hunter, miner, engineer, and transport operator, each presenting distinct challenges tied to resource scarcity and combat encounters. Reviewers highlight that the factory-inside-a-starship concept feels unique within the genre, and players describe the experience as atmospheric and contemplative despite its challenging systems. Currently priced at $19.99 USD, the game runs at a challenging difficulty over a long session length and is playable on Steam Deck. It holds a 77% positive rating based on over 1000 Steam reviews.
About The Last Starship: The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Players who liked The Last Starship also play
Steam players who put hours into The Last Starship 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 Haven
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Last Starship.
Top pick for The Last Starship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
ExoColony: Planet Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Last Starship.
Second-strongest match for The Last Starship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply. Maintain a breathable atmosphere, tackle pollution, and refine materials to build essential structures. Terraform planet and build ecosystem to make it your new home.
Stardeus
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Last Starship.
Third-strongest match for The Last Starship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Last Starship.
Ranked #4 for The Last Starship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Last Starship.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
The Final Earth 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Last Starship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Last Starship.
Ranked #6 for The Last Starship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
The Crust
WHY THIS
Shares automation and an immersive mood with The Last Starship.
Ranked #7 for The Last Starship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Last Starship.
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Space Architect
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Last Starship.
Ranked #8 for The Last Starship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Last Starship
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Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Last Starship.
Reviewers of The Last Starship cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Star Valor
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Last Starship.
Reviewers of The Last Starship cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Last Starship.
Choose your own destiny as you explore an open-world procedurally generated galaxy where anything is possible. Become a miner, a trader, a bounty hunter, a pirate, or perhaps a jack of all trades. Start off small and build your way to the top but remember with every action, comes consequences.
Surviving Mars: Relaunched
WHY THIS
Shares resource scarcity and an atmospheric mood with The Last Starship.
Reviewers of The Last Starship cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Last Starship.
The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with The Last Starship.
Reviewers of The Last Starship cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Space Haven
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Last Starship.
Reviewers of The Last Starship cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Starcom: Unknown Space
WHY THIS
Shares ship design, crew management and an atmospheric mood with The Last Starship.
Reviewers of The Last Starship cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Last Starship.
Starcom: Unknown Space is an action RPG of space exploration and adventure. Build your own starship while discovering an epic story in a universe of strange mysteries, alien factions and uncharted worlds.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Last Starship at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Last Starship on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Last Starship.
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 The Last Starship on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Last Starship.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Last Starship on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Last Starship.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Last Starship on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Last Starship.
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 The Last Starship on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Last Starship.
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 The Last Starship on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Last Starship.
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 The Last Starship.
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 The Last Starship.
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?
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The Last Starship.
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 The Last Starship.
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!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Last Starship.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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More from Introversion Software
Other recommendable Steam games by Introversion Software, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Last Starship.
Another title from Introversion Software, the studio behind The Last Starship. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
DEFCON
WHY THIS
Another title from Introversion Software, the studio behind The Last Starship. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare.
Scanner Sombre
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Last Starship.
Another title from Introversion Software, the studio behind The Last Starship. Shares Indie with The Last Starship.
Scanner Sombre is a 3d horror cave exploration game where darkness is your greatest foe. Illuminate the unseen with your LIDAR scanner, revealing the eerie beauty and peril of the abyss. From the creators of Prison Architect, this immersive adventure uses light and shadow for a haunting experience.
Uplink
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Last Starship.
Another title from Introversion Software, the studio behind The Last Starship. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
Uplink lets you play as a freelance hacker tackling risky contracts for corporations. Break into systems, steal data, sabotage rivals, and upgrade your gear. Support factions or go rogue in this immersive, strategy-driven hacking simulation game where your choices shape the outcome.
Darwinia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Last Starship.
Another title from Introversion Software, the studio behind The Last Starship. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
Darwinia blends real-time strategy, action, and puzzles with a unique gesture-based control system. Save the Darwinians, battle viruses, and restore order in a retro-inspired digital world. Winner of multiple prestigious awards, including the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at IGF 2006.
Multiwinia
WHY THIS
Another title from Introversion Software, the studio behind The Last Starship. Shares Indie with The Last Starship.
Multiwinia is a fast-paced, retro-inspired RTS that blends arcade action with strategic depth. Command armies of Multiwinians in multiplayer battles across vibrant, nostalgic environments. With simple controls and dynamic gameplay, it offers endless fun and challenge for players of all skill levels.
DEFCON VR
WHY THIS
Another title from Introversion Software, the studio behind The Last Starship. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
DEFCON VR allows you to spectate DEFCON games in the comfort of your own virtual War Room. Join others and marvel at total global annihilation as nuclear missiles arc over the globe on their path to destruction. Watch Armageddon unfold as everybody dies….
Frequently asked about The Last Starship
- Does The Last Starship run on Steam Deck?
- The Last Starship is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Last Starship cost?
- The Last Starship is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Last Starship?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Last Starship are Space Haven, ExoColony: Planet Survival, Stardeus.
- Who developed The Last Starship?
- The Last Starship was developed by Introversion Software.
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