Games like Instarion
If Instarion is your kind of game, the closest matches are Star Wrath, PULSAR: Lost Colony and Avorion — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Instarion: PvE co-op space-sim shooter. Seamless landings on huge spherical planets. Interplanetary flights with explorable ship interiors. Boarding vessels anywhere in combat, space or surface. Massive ground and space battles.
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Steam players who put hours into Instarion 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.
Star Wrath
WHY THIS
Top pick for Instarion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Instarion.
Star Wrath is a multiplayer space extraction-action where you design your own ship and fight other players for resources in intense PvP and PvE battles.
PULSAR: Lost Colony
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Instarion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Instarion.
The co-op open-world space sim where everyone has a role! Pilot the ship. Reroute power. Launch nukes. Explore alien planets. Research new talents. Work together to find the Lost Colony! ...or just deliver some biscuits
Avorion
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Instarion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Instarion.
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
SpaceCraft
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Instarion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Instarion.
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Deep Rock Galactic
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Ranked #5 for Instarion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Instarion.
Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!
HELLION
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Instarion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Instarion.
After a century in cryosleep you find yourself stranded amidst the ruins of mankind’s first interstellar colony. Explore derelict ships and stations and harvest raw resources in search of air, fuel and other equipment. Or loot and pillage what you need from other survivors. The choice is yours!
How to Fish
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Ranked #7 for Instarion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Instarion.
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.
QANGA
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Instarion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Instarion.
QANGA: 750 years after humanity's fall, you must survive in a shattered world where Earth itself demands vengeance. Tear through the fabric of space to face the Voss, awaken the ancient civilisation, and dare to challenge the Sanglines, born from the bowels of a world that condemned you.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Instarion.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Instarion.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Instarion.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Instarion.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Instarion.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Instarion.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
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Frequently asked about Instarion
- Does Instarion have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Instarion supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Instarion?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Instarion are Star Wrath, PULSAR: Lost Colony, Avorion.
- Who developed Instarion?
- Instarion was developed by Animus Digital.
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 Instarion.
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