Games like Starfend
If Starfend is your kind of game, the closest matches are Button Pop, Grow Empire: Rome and Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand — 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 Starfend: Pick cards, equip stones, chain color synergies — and survive endless meteor waves. A 3D sci-fi tower defense roguelite where every run builds different and hits harder.
Players who liked Starfend also play
Steam players who put hours into Starfend 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.
Button Pop
WHY THIS
Top pick for Starfend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Starfend.
Button Pop is a 3D Tower defense game fused with Button mashing chaos. Construct the deadliest defense strategies by unlocking powerful traps and turrets across a variety of terrains, while building your very own button with the rewards of your adventures!
Grow Empire: Rome
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Starfend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Starfend.
Hey Caesar! Defend your fortress and build your roman empire
Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Starfend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starfend.
Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.
Guerra de Insetos TW PREMIUM
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Starfend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Starfend.
play, win insects and use multiple insects to beat your opponent
Island Crusaders
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Starfend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Starfend.
Island Crusaders is a cute yet brutal tactical RTS game. Defend your home against swarms of enemies as your picturesque island gets stained by the blood of your enemies. Unlock new and unique units, strategically place and move them, and defeat the impending army.
Northend Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Starfend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Starfend.
Jump into a realtime strategy, action filled battlefield, deploy relentless soldiers, unlock powerful troops and vehicles, upgrade your army, decimate the enemy. If that's not enough, jump into a chaotic Zombie mode, with traps, fun upgrades, and a new gameplay!
EverSiege: Untold Ages
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Starfend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starfend.
Retreating ends here. Defend Bastion against evil hordes, reclaim lost powers, rebuild ancient ruins, and adapt your tactics to reverse the siege. Shape your playstyle in this hero-strategy rogue-lite solo or co-op up to 3 players.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Starfend at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Starfend on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Starfend.
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 ~50% under Starfend on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Starfend.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Starfend on Steam right now. Shares Action with Starfend.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Starfend on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starfend.
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 ~50% under Starfend on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Starfend.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Starfend on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Starfend.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Starfend on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Starfend.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Starfend on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Starfend.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Starfend.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Casual with Starfend.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Starfend.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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 Starfend.
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.
of the Devil
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starfend.
Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.
Samorost 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Starfend.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
South Scrimshaw, Part One
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Starfend.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
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Frequently asked about Starfend
- How much does Starfend cost?
- Starfend is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Starfend?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Starfend are Button Pop, Grow Empire: Rome, Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand.
- Who developed Starfend?
- Starfend was developed by Ranieri Silva, Piercarlo Silva and published by RP Entertainment Games.
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 Starfend.
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