Games like Starshifter
If Starshifter is your kind of game, the closest matches are Seedbo And That Time The Sun Exploded, Gwen The Hen 64 and Cirno! Lifts a Boulder — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its exploration focused gameplay, challenging 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 Starshifter: Starshifter is a game about shapeshifting, desert animals, and finding your place.
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Steam players who put hours into Starshifter 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.
Seedbo And That Time The Sun Exploded
WHY THIS
Top pick for Starshifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starshifter.
Re-assemble the sun in this bite-sized adventure platformer!
Gwen The Hen 64
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Starshifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starshifter.
Gwen the Hen 64 is a tiny 3D platformer collectathon, with precise controls and many different movement options.
Cirno! Lifts a Boulder
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Starshifter.
Third-strongest match for Starshifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starshifter.
Help Cirno get back into her home! A chill, bite-sized 3D platformer in which you explore a frozen Misty Lake and gain boulder-lifting strength.
Re:Fresh
WHY THIS
Shares collectathon and a cozy mood with Starshifter.
Ranked #4 for Starshifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Starshifter.
Restore your town as you run, jump and dash through cozy locales while helping lovable townsfolk! Become immersed in a tight-knit community of animals and robots while becoming the town hero in this heart-warming solarpunk adventure.
Misc. A Tiny Tale
WHY THIS
Shares collectathon and a cozy mood with Starshifter.
Ranked #5 for Starshifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starshifter.
Meet Buddy and Bag Boy – two tiny robots with big hearts and an even bigger mission: spreading joy! After a mysterious explosion rains golden cogs and trash from the sky, it’s their job to collect, clean, and help each village while uncovering the secret behind the blast.
Pru the Pigeon
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Starshifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starshifter.
Pru the Pigeon is a bite-sized 3D platformer with precise and expressive controls. Join Pru on his quest to save his land Asasco. Explore and collect everything in sight!
Omno
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Starshifter.
Ranked #7 for Starshifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starshifter.
A single-player journey of discovery through an ancient world of wonders, created by solo developer Jonas Manke.
A Hat in Time
WHY THIS
Shares collectathon and a whimsical mood with Starshifter.
Ranked #8 for Starshifter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starshifter.
A Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck 3D platformer featuring a little girl who stitches hats for wicked powers! Freely explore giant worlds and recover Time Pieces to travel to new heights!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Starshifter at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Starshifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Starshifter.
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 Starshifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Starshifter.
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 Starshifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starshifter.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Starshifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Starshifter.
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
Priced ~47% under Starshifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starshifter.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Starshifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Starshifter.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Starshifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Starshifter.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Starshifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starshifter.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Starshifter.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Starshifter.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starshifter.
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 and Adventure with Starshifter.
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 and Casual with Starshifter.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starshifter.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starshifter.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Gwen The Hen 64
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starshifter.
Gwen the Hen 64 is a tiny 3D platformer collectathon, with precise controls and many different movement options.
Cirno! Lifts a Boulder
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Starshifter.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starshifter.
Help Cirno get back into her home! A chill, bite-sized 3D platformer in which you explore a frozen Misty Lake and gain boulder-lifting strength.
Re:Fresh
WHY THIS
Shares collectathon and a cozy mood with Starshifter.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Casual with Starshifter.
Restore your town as you run, jump and dash through cozy locales while helping lovable townsfolk! Become immersed in a tight-knit community of animals and robots while becoming the town hero in this heart-warming solarpunk adventure.
A Hat in Time
WHY THIS
Shares collectathon and a whimsical mood with Starshifter.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starshifter.
A Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck 3D platformer featuring a little girl who stitches hats for wicked powers! Freely explore giant worlds and recover Time Pieces to travel to new heights!
Frequently asked about Starshifter
- How much does Starshifter cost?
- Starshifter is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Starshifter?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Starshifter are Seedbo And That Time The Sun Exploded, Gwen The Hen 64, Cirno! Lifts a Boulder.
- Who developed Starshifter?
- Starshifter was developed by Coyotic Games and published by Coyotic Trouble.
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