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Games like Star Overdrive

If Star Overdrive is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kiteboarding Pro, HYPERFUNK and Ollie-Oop — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill 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.

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About Star Overdrive: Star Overdrive is a high-speed action adventure set in an open world. Race across an alien planet on your Hoverboard, mastering tricks, battling enemies, solving puzzles, and using your powers to overcome challenges and shape your destiny!

2025ActionIndieAdventure34.99 USDDeck VerifiedMetacritic 69Windowsby Caracal Games
Star Overdrive — Steam game cover
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Crafting hoverboard upgrades enhances traversal and aestheticsHoverboard feels like a natural extension of the playerKeytar abilities make combat and puzzles dynamicAtmosphericChillEpic

Players who liked Star Overdrive also play

Steam players who put hours into Star Overdrive 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.

  1. Kiteboarding Pro

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Overdrive.

    Top pick for Star Overdrive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Overdrive.

    Race against the clock in time trials, beat that ultimate high score in freestyle or go BIG with massive jumps in freeride mode. From wakestyle to oldschool to kiteloops to wave riding - in Kiteboarding Pro the sky isn't the limit.

    2023ActionSportsIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. HYPERFUNK

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Star Overdrive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Overdrive.

    HYPERFUNK is 2 seconds per second of evolved funkstyle. Battle rival crews, hang out online, explore the city, do some crazy tricks and blast through the streets.

    ActionSportsIndieSteam ↗
  3. Ollie-Oop

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Star Overdrive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Overdrive.

    A game about a skateboarding dog named Ollie, who goes on the adventure of his dreams! Play with your pup friends and wreak havoc in all kinds of fantastical environments.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure12.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Floppy Cat Adventures

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Star Overdrive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Overdrive.

    Explore a fun and dangerous open world in this darkly comedic soulslike RPG! Talk your way out of (or into) problems, battle monsters, befriend or betray the villagers, learn magic, collect tools and weapons, oh yeah - and find out how you got turned into a cat!

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. Crude Oil

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Star Overdrive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Overdrive.

    Escape your captors as a puddle of petroleum on the run from Big Oil. Collect more oil to grow big and juicy. Bounce and slide. Operate heavy machinery. Flush polluters down the drain.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure9.74 USDSteam ↗
  6. Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Star Overdrive.

    Ranked #6 for Star Overdrive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Overdrive.

    Experience unparalleled board control and responsiveness while you skate iconic real-world skate spots. This is the evolution of skateboarding gameplay. With Independent Foot Control and unique physics-based gameplay, skate gamers finally have the expressive controls they have always dreamed of.

    2020ActionSportsIndie39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Skator Gator 3D

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Star Overdrive.

    Ranked #7 for Star Overdrive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Overdrive.

    Stop the mayor from polluting the swamp in this short, 3D adventure! Explore new open locales with skateboard in hand or while grinding on pipelines — Greenjamin's skating into the third dimension in SKATOR GATOR 3D!

    2023ActionSportsIndie4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. BMX The Game

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Overdrive.

    Ranked #8 for Star Overdrive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Overdrive.

    BMX The Game is a realistic bike game that captures the essence of this sport. Designed by BMX riders and lovers, it recreates the beauty, creativity, fun and variety of the BMX universe in an open-world game, set in the emblematic city of Barcelona.

    2020ActionSportsIndie24.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Star Overdrive at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~71% under Star Overdrive on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Star Overdrive.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~86% under Star Overdrive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Star Overdrive.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Stardew Valley

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~57% under Star Overdrive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Star Overdrive.

    You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

    2016IndieSimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Phasmophobia

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under Star Overdrive on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Star Overdrive.

    Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.

    2020ActionIndieEarly Access19.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~71% under Star Overdrive on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Star Overdrive.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~71% under Star Overdrive on Steam right now. Shares Action with Star Overdrive.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Schedule I

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under Star Overdrive on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Star Overdrive.

    From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Hollow Knight

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~57% under Star Overdrive on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Star Overdrive.

    Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Overdrive.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. 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 Star Overdrive.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Star Overdrive.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Star Overdrive.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Star Overdrive.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 93, Kuindzhi

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Overdrive.

    Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Star Overdrive.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Hello Neighbor Alpha 2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Overdrive.

    Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.

    2019StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗

More from Caracal Games

Other recommendable Steam games by Caracal Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Downward: Enhanced Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Overdrive.

    Another title from Caracal Games, the studio behind Star Overdrive. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Overdrive.

    Downward is a first-person open-world parkour based platform adventure set in the medieval ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet Earth. Make your way through breath-taking landscapes, face ancient guardians and unravel the deep mystery that lies behind the disappearance of humanity.

    2017IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. OkunoKA Madness

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Caracal Games, the studio behind Star Overdrive. Shares Action and Indie with Star Overdrive.

    Test your reflexes and coordination with more than 100 levels to complete and 3 speedrun modes. Do You have what it takes?

    2020ActionIndie8.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Lola's Familiars: Prison of Argnoh

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Caracal Games, the studio behind Star Overdrive. Shares Action and Indie with Star Overdrive.

    Escape a demonic underworld prison in this stunning anime inspired lite-vania adventure. Explore mysterious magical realms, forge pacts with powerful Familiar bosses, uncover dark secrets, and guide Lola through an emotional journey of growth in a haunting dark fantasy world.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Star Overdrive

Is Star Overdrive verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Star Overdrive is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Star Overdrive cost?
Star Overdrive is listed on Steam at 34.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Star Overdrive?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Star Overdrive are Kiteboarding Pro, HYPERFUNK, Ollie-Oop.
Who developed Star Overdrive?
Star Overdrive was developed by Caracal Games and published by Dear Villagers.

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 Star Overdrive.

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