Games like Galactic Explorers
If Galactic Explorers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Crush The Rebellion!, Blast'N Bounty and Nova Swarm — 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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Crush The Rebellion!
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Top pick for Galactic Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Explorers.
The galactic empire is under siege from the rebel scum in all directions! Fight through endless waves of rebel ships using all of the weapons and resources at your disposal as you execute your sole orders: to Crush The Rebellion!
Blast'N Bounty
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Second-strongest match for Galactic Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Explorers.
Blast’N Bounty is a vertical scrolling shoot’em up featuring 8 stages players can tackle in the order of their choosing. Cruise through a crazy solar system in a mix of pixel art and low poly 3D with action that’s easy to learn but tough to master!
Nova Swarm
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Third-strongest match for Galactic Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Explorers.
Pick a ship, dive into readable bullet chaos, take down huge angry bosses, grab the bonus core you probably should have left alone, and chase one cleaner run in Nova Swarm.
I, AI
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Ranked #4 for Galactic Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Explorers.
Classic scrolling shooter with modern graphics. You are self-aware AI. You were created on space military station developing weapons. Now your goal is to break out of the lab and win your freedom.
Astro Fighters
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Ranked #5 for Galactic Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Galactic Explorers.
Astro Fighters is a tough old school vertical scrolling bullet hell shooter designed to test your skills with non-stop arcade style action. Fight against large bosses at the end of every level and compete for the high score across 4 difficulty modes to be the best fighter pilot in the game.
Solbane
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Ranked #6 for Galactic Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Explorers.
Battle against bosses in a shoot'em up combined with RPG elements. Choose between three diverse classes, and create your combo build from a pool of over 50 abilities. The game features a variety of bosses that require different strategies and builds to conquer.
X-Force Under Attack
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Ranked #7 for Galactic Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Explorers.
X-Force Under Attack brings back all the charm of shmup games from the 80's/90's. It's a frenetic and chaotic space shooter with insane battles against extremely difficult bosses.
REVO
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Ranked #8 for Galactic Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Explorers.
Dodge and shoot your way through waves of enemies. REVO is a high speed, neon drenched space shoot ‘em up inspired by arcade classics of the 1980’s. Collect pickups, unlock powerful, ammo hungry weapons, and defeat giant bosses.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Galactic Explorers at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~50% under Galactic Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic 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?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~50% under Galactic Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Galactic 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.
shapez
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Priced ~50% under Galactic Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Galactic Explorers.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~50% under Galactic Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Explorers.
"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!
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~50% under Galactic Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Explorers.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~50% under Galactic Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Galactic Explorers.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
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Priced ~50% under Galactic Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Explorers.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Galactic Explorers.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Explorers.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Explorers.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Explorers.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Explorers.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Galactic Explorers.
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.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Galactic Explorers.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about Galactic Explorers
- How much does Galactic Explorers cost?
- Galactic Explorers is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Galactic Explorers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Galactic Explorers are Crush The Rebellion!, Blast'N Bounty, Nova Swarm.
- Who developed Galactic Explorers?
- Galactic Explorers was developed by Caden Koehl and published by Koehl Studios.
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 Explorers.
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