Games like To the Stars
If To the Stars is your kind of game, the closest matches are Micron Defense Force, Gallic Wars: Battle Simulator Prologue and Emberward — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, contemplative and lighthearted. 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 To the Stars: To the Stars is a fast-paced, whimsical and tactical planet-hopping game. Choose your own adventure as you conquer the universe - one constellation at a time.
Players who liked To the Stars also play
Steam players who put hours into To the Stars 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.
Micron Defense Force
WHY THIS
Top pick for To the Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with To the Stars.
A Roguelike Tower Defense in space with missions to conquer. Can you hold against the spreading alien bosses? Build and upgrade towers against the corruption. Choose your technologies and warpspeed your way to victory.
Gallic Wars: Battle Simulator Prologue
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for To the Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with To the Stars.
Time to conquer ROME! Become a commander of Gallic Warriors and destroy Roman Empire in this Rogue-like strategy game.
Emberward
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with To the Stars.
Third-strongest match for To the Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with To the Stars.
Build twisting mazes with tetromino blocks and deploy unique towers in this strategic roguelite tower defense adventure!
Necronator: Dead Wrong
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with To the Stars.
Ranked #4 for To the Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with To the Stars.
Necronator: Dead Wrong is a deck-building roguelike with an RTS twist. Build a powerful deck. Collect and deploy undead units and raise a unique army. Master each commander’s playstyle and conquer the world. Change the game with rule-bending relics. Unlock new decks and do it all again.
Dice Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with To the Stars.
Ranked #5 for To the Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with To the Stars.
Dice Legacy is a dice-based survival city builder set on a mysterious ringworld. Your ship has reached the shore of an uncharted continent. Roll and use your dice to gather resources, expand and defend your settlement, survive the winter and interact with the strange inhabitants of this eerie world.
Yokai Art: Night Parade of One Hundred Demons
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with To the Stars.
Ranked #6 for To the Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with To the Stars.
By accident, you broke the seal of the mysterious book, which contains an enormous magical power that allows users to control any Yokai by defeating them and recording their names. This godly power is too much which alerts all the Yokai. You must find your own way to defeat them and survive.
Tower Dominion
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for To the Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with To the Stars.
Build and design the terrain while defending your stronghold against alien invasion in this unique Roguelike tower defense. Choose from 30 heroes, survive enemy waves, and upgrade a variety of destructive towers to hold the line!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with To the Stars.
Ranked #8 for To the Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with To the Stars.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below To the Stars at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under To the Stars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with To the Stars.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under To the Stars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with To the Stars.
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 ~47% under To the Stars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with To the Stars.
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 ~50% under To the Stars on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with To the Stars.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under To the Stars on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with To the Stars.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with To the Stars.
Priced ~47% under To the Stars on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with To the Stars.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under To the Stars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with To the Stars.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under To the Stars on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with To the Stars.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
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 To the Stars.
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 with To the Stars.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with To the Stars.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with To the Stars.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with To the Stars.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with To the Stars.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with To the Stars.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about To the Stars
- Does To the Stars run on Steam Deck?
- To the Stars 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 To the Stars cost?
- To the Stars is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to To the Stars?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside To the Stars are Micron Defense Force, Gallic Wars: Battle Simulator Prologue, Emberward.
- Who developed To the Stars?
- To the Stars was developed by Stellar Cartography Interactive and published by Blowfish 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 To the Stars.
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