Games like StarMade
If StarMade is your kind of game, the closest matches are Empyrion - Galactic Survival, FortressCraft Evolved! and Starship EVO — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its vast galaxy to explore, challenging and immersive. 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 →StarMade is a space sandbox game released in 2014 by Schine GmbH, available for $14.99. Players describe it as challenging and immersive, with the ability to command fleets of AI ships and engage in massive battles using custom-designed vessels. The game features ship-building mechanics, crafting systems, and procedural generation across a vast galaxy to explore. Multiplayer cooperation is supported through online co-op play. Reviewers highlight the extensive universe and strategic depth as key appeals. StarMade holds a 67% positive rating from 1712 Steam reviews, and offers a chill difficulty setting with a massive scope for long-term engagement.
About StarMade: The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Players who liked StarMade also play
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Empyrion - Galactic Survival
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with StarMade.
Top pick for StarMade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with StarMade.
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
FortressCraft Evolved!
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with StarMade.
Second-strongest match for StarMade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with StarMade.
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Starship EVO
WHY THIS
Shares space exploration and an immersive mood with StarMade.
Third-strongest match for StarMade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with StarMade.
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
ROKH
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with StarMade.
Ranked #4 for StarMade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with StarMade.
Have you got what it takes to survive on Mars? ROKH is a multiplayer survival game featuring scientific realism and extremely deep crafting and building. Make the red planet your sandbox and create a thriving colony.
Stonehearth
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for StarMade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with StarMade.
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Avorion
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with StarMade.
Ranked #6 for StarMade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with StarMade.
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.
From the Depths
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with StarMade.
Ranked #7 for StarMade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with StarMade.
Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with StarMade.
Ranked #8 for StarMade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with StarMade.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with StarMade.
Reviewers of StarMade cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with StarMade.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with StarMade.
Reviewers of StarMade cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with StarMade.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of StarMade cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with StarMade.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below StarMade at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under StarMade on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with StarMade.
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 StarMade on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with StarMade.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under StarMade on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with StarMade.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under StarMade on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with StarMade.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under StarMade on Steam right now. Shares Action with StarMade.
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.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under StarMade on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with StarMade.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under StarMade on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with StarMade.
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 StarMade on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with StarMade.
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...
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with StarMade.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with StarMade.
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 and Simulation with StarMade.
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?
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 StarMade.
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 StarMade.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with StarMade.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with StarMade.
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 StarMade.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about StarMade
- How much does StarMade cost?
- StarMade is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does StarMade have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — StarMade supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to StarMade?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside StarMade are Empyrion - Galactic Survival, FortressCraft Evolved!, Starship EVO.
- Who developed StarMade?
- StarMade was developed by Schine GmbH.
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