Games like Space Pirates for Life
If Space Pirates for Life is your kind of game, the closest matches are SUGAMENIA, Trash Quest and Oirbo — 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 Space Pirates for Life: A hardcore 2D action platformer where you play as a stranded space pirate. Hack, slash, and speedrun through a brutal alien world, with tight precision controls, end-game stats, and an exclusive unlockable track by Tidal Rave.
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SUGAMENIA
WHY THIS
Top pick for Space Pirates for Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates for Life.
Immerse yourself in SUGAMENIA, a 2D action platformer, where you'll have to solve puzzles in an epic adventure.
Trash Quest
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Space Pirates for Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates for Life.
Trash Quest is a compact metroidvania with a single spawn point, run and gun action and tight platforming. Navigate an interwoven maze of rooms through this space station, destroying robots, collecting power ups and unlocking shortcuts.
Oirbo
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Space Pirates for Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates for Life.
As Oirbo you will explore a labyrinthian spacecraft and discover its mysteries and purpose. Navigate a huge Metroidvania-inspired, hand-drawn, 2D action platformer full of secrets to uncover, areas to explore, and enemies to dismantle.
La-Mulana 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Space Pirates for Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates for Life.
The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.
Alwa's Legacy
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Space Pirates for Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates for Life.
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
Jet Kave Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Space Pirates for Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates for Life.
Jetpack through the prehistoric world in this Stone-Fiction adventure platformer. Enjoy challenging boss fights, flying over pitfalls, smashing through walls, knocking out enemies, and manipulating objects as you halt the alien threat once and for all.
Aeon Drive
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Space Pirates for Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates for Life.
Rush through the cyberpunk landscapes of Neo Barcelona in Aeon Drive, an action-platformer with a speedrunning twist! Whether solo or in up to 4 player co-op, sprint and dash through many areas of the neon-infused city - and use your time and space-bending abilities to get ahead.
Super Magbot
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Space Pirates for Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates for Life.
A precise 2D platformer with a twist. NO JUMPING. Master your magnetic powers to beat each level with speed and skill. Enjoy classic 16-bit gaming vibes, tackle challenging achievements and compete for global leaderboard supremacy along the way.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Space Pirates for Life at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Space Pirates for Life on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates for Life.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Space Pirates for Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Pirates for Life.
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 ~67% under Space Pirates for Life on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Space Pirates for Life.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Space Pirates for Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Space Pirates for Life.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Space Pirates for Life on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates for Life.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Space Pirates for Life on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates for Life.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Space Pirates for Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Space Pirates for Life.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Pirates for Life.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Space Pirates for Life.
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 Space Pirates for Life.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Pirates for Life.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates for Life.
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 Space Pirates for Life.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates for Life.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
La-Mulana 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates for Life.
The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.
Alwa's Legacy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates for Life.
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
Jet Kave Adventure
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates for Life.
Jetpack through the prehistoric world in this Stone-Fiction adventure platformer. Enjoy challenging boss fights, flying over pitfalls, smashing through walls, knocking out enemies, and manipulating objects as you halt the alien threat once and for all.
Super Magbot
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates for Life.
A precise 2D platformer with a twist. NO JUMPING. Master your magnetic powers to beat each level with speed and skill. Enjoy classic 16-bit gaming vibes, tackle challenging achievements and compete for global leaderboard supremacy along the way.
Frequently asked about Space Pirates for Life
- How much does Space Pirates for Life cost?
- Space Pirates for Life is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Space Pirates for Life?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Space Pirates for Life are SUGAMENIA, Trash Quest, Oirbo.
- Who developed Space Pirates for Life?
- Space Pirates for Life was developed by Tidal Rave, Nathan Elliot and published by Tidal Rave.
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