Games like Starscape
If Starscape is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space Pirates and Zombies, Gratuitous Space Battles and Heat Signature — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cozy space exploration vibe, retro charm feels timeless and cozy. 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 Starscape: Moonpod's Starscape mixes old school arcade game play values with characterization and an involving plot to deepen the whole experience. With most of its crew missing and its weapons systems ruined, the space research station Aegis is all but lost.
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Space Pirates and Zombies
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Starscape.
Top pick for Starscape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Starscape.
Explore a randomly generated Galaxy populated with factions, enemies, missions, and items providing you with a unique experience each time you play.
Gratuitous Space Battles
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Starscape.
Second-strongest match for Starscape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starscape.
The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.
Heat Signature
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Starscape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Starscape.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
Reassembly
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Starscape.
Ranked #4 for Starscape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Starscape.
A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.
SHOOPER NOVA
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Starscape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Starscape.
Craft Your Ultimate Circular Fortress! Dive into SHOOPER NOVA, where you choose props and components to build a unique fortress. Unlock combos to shape your strategy and battle style. Become an unstoppable barrage machine and obliterate waves of enemies from all directions!
Halfway
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Starscape.
Ranked #6 for Starscape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Starscape.
Halfway is a turn-based strategy RPG taking place a few hundred years into the future. Humanity has started colonising new worlds. Until now, they were alone ...
VoidExpanse
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Starscape.
Ranked #7 for Starscape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Starscape.
Explore the vast reaches of VoidExpanse -- mine asteroids, upgrade your ship, trade, complete missions, advance your character and survive fast-paced combat with hostile aliens and mercenaries in the rich and exciting Sci-Fi universe of VoidExpanse!
Convoy
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Starscape.
Ranked #8 for Starscape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Starscape.
Convoy is a tactical roguelike-like inspired by Mad Max and FTL in which you cross a wasteland in search of parts for your broken ship. Presented in pixel art and set in a future post-apocalyptic setting, Convoy is a squad based tactical combat roguelike-like in its core.
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Space Pirates and Zombies
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Starscape.
Reviewers of Starscape cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Starscape.
Explore a randomly generated Galaxy populated with factions, enemies, missions, and items providing you with a unique experience each time you play.
Solar Wind
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Starscape cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Starscape.
Blast your way through a galaxy of planets in this fast paced, side scrolling shoot 'em up. Fight in deep space, fly through asteroid belts, and battle across moons as you take on the alien menace.
Starvector
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Starscape cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Starscape.
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Starscape at current Steam store prices.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Starscape on Steam right now. Shares Action with Starscape.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Starscape on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Starscape.
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 ~63% under Starscape on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Starscape.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Starscape on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Starscape.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Starscape on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Starscape.
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 ~81% under Starscape on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Starscape.
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 ~88% under Starscape on Steam right now. Shares Action with Starscape.
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 ~63% under Starscape on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Starscape.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Starscape.
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.
SCP: Secret Laboratory
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Starscape.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
Splitgate
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Starscape.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
PlanetSide 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Starscape.
PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.
Bloons TD Battles 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Starscape.
From the creators of Bloons TD6... Bloons TD Battles 2 is a brand new installment of the top-rated head-to-head tower defense game. Gather your Hero, choose your team of powerful Monkey Towers, and prepare to battle one on one against other players and relentless waves of Bloons!
Eternal Return
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starscape.
Eternal Return is a free-to-play, 2.5D perspective Battle Royale game. Search, Craft, Hunt, and Fight using a variety of characters. Plan your strategy and become the last survivor on this eternal experiment.
Alien Swarm
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Starscape.
Co-operative multiplayer game and complete code base available for free.
Endless Sky
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Starscape.
Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.
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Frequently asked about Starscape
- How much does Starscape cost?
- Starscape is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Starscape?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Starscape are Space Pirates and Zombies, Gratuitous Space Battles, Heat Signature.
- Who developed Starscape?
- Starscape was developed by Moonpod.
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