Games like Stardust Exile
If Stardust Exile is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sins of a Solar Empire II, Hades' Star and Stronghold Kingdoms — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and epic. 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 Stardust Exile: Stardust Exile is an RTS set in the Milky Way galaxy, containing currently known stars and exoplanets with their real characteristics. The remaining star systems are procedurally generated. It has both online mode and single-player skirmish mode. The online server is persistent and single-shard.
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Steam players who put hours into Stardust Exile 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.
Sins of a Solar Empire II
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Stardust Exile.
Top pick for Stardust Exile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stardust Exile.
Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.
Hades' Star
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Stardust Exile.
Second-strongest match for Stardust Exile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Massively Multiplayer with Stardust Exile.
A unique space strategy game where thousands of players participate in one shared galaxy.
Stronghold Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Stardust Exile.
Third-strongest match for Stardust Exile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Massively Multiplayer with Stardust Exile.
A massively multiplayer grand strategy game, Stronghold Kingdoms is about forging alliances, political mind games, city-building and castle sieges with thousands of other players!
AI War 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Stardust Exile.
Ranked #4 for Stardust Exile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stardust Exile.
The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®
WHY THIS
Shares a grand mood with Stardust Exile.
Ranked #5 for Stardust Exile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stardust Exile.
In Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, you are the leader of a civilization embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for the survival of your entire race against relentless foes.
Wargame: Airland Battle
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Stardust Exile.
Ranked #6 for Stardust Exile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stardust Exile.
2 SIDES, 12 NATIONS, 750 UNITS: THE STRATEGY GAME REFERENCE IS BACK! Richer, more beautiful and more accessible, Wargame AirLand Battle is the sequel to the explosive real-time strategy game Wargame European Escalation! 1985.
Galactic Ruler
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Stardust Exile.
Ranked #7 for Stardust Exile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stardust Exile.
Galactic Ruler offers real time strategy game play at both planetary level and in space! Lead your faction in diplomacy or conquest across a procedurally generated galactic map where any system might hold hostile enemies or resource riches. Develop advanced technologies to rule the galaxy!
Outscape
WHY THIS
Shares ship design and an epic mood with Stardust Exile.
Ranked #8 for Stardust Exile fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stardust Exile.
Outscape is everything you love about traditional strategy games, but places your empire within a vast online galaxy alongside other real players. Outscape rewards skillful long-term strategic gameplay with a brilliantly refreshing new take on the 4X genre.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Stardust Exile at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Stardust Exile on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stardust Exile.
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 Stardust Exile on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Stardust Exile.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Stardust Exile on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stardust Exile.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Stardust Exile on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Stardust Exile.
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 Stardust Exile on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Stardust Exile.
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 Stardust Exile on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Stardust Exile.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stardust Exile.
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 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!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stardust Exile.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stardust Exile.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Stardust Exile.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Stardust Exile.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
Rec Room
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Massively Multiplayer with Stardust Exile.
Rec Room is the best place to build and play games together. Party up with friends from all around the world to chat, hang out, explore MILLIONS of player-created rooms, or build something new and amazing to share with us all.
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Frequently asked about Stardust Exile
- Does Stardust Exile run on Steam Deck?
- Stardust Exile 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 Stardust Exile cost?
- Stardust Exile is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Stardust Exile have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Stardust Exile supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Stardust Exile?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Stardust Exile are Sins of a Solar Empire II, Hades' Star, Stronghold Kingdoms.
- Who developed Stardust Exile?
- Stardust Exile was developed by Apseren.
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 Stardust Exile.
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