Games like STARWHAL
If STARWHAL is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nidhogg, Off the Beaten Track and Lethal League — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its leaderboards drive competition, funny and intense. 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 STARWHAL: The local multi-player space narwhal fighting game that has rocked the internet is finally ready for its big debut in a fully loaded release! Flop it out with 1-4 players in a retro, epic narwhal battle in space! The heart-piercing action is furious and unrelenting. STARWHAL will change your life.
Players who liked STARWHAL also play
Steam players who put hours into STARWHAL 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.
Nidhogg
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with STARWHAL.
Top pick for STARWHAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with STARWHAL.
Nidhogg is the epic award-winning game of fencing tug-of-war complete with flying giant worms.
Off the Beaten Track
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for STARWHAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STARWHAL.
A couch/online multiplayer party game for 2–4 players. Choose from a roster of unique characters, each with their own weapons and abilities, and compete in intense versus matches on varied space arenas filled with environmental hazards.
Lethal League
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with STARWHAL.
Third-strongest match for STARWHAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with STARWHAL.
Lethal League is a competitive projectile fighting game where you have to hit an anti-gravity ball into the face of your opponent to win. The ball speeds up with every strike, up to explosively extreme velocities. Play intense local matches with friends and foes, challenge yourself in the singleplayer mode or battle it out online.
Island Bender
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for STARWHAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STARWHAL.
Throw Rocks at each other, collect Powerups, and play with up to 6 players in Local Multiplayer.
Wand Wars
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with STARWHAL.
Ranked #5 for STARWHAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with STARWHAL.
Ride brooms, cast spells and transform your enemies into chickens in this intense magical sport
Grave Dodgers
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for STARWHAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with STARWHAL.
Grave Dodgers is a 2D, pixel art, dodgeball brawler for 2-4 players. Throw, dodge, and parry your way through a silly version of hell as one of the underworld's kooky characters. Inspired by our favorite local couch multiplayer games - but in hell! Kill your friends and have a ball!
Astroblocks
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for STARWHAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with STARWHAL.
A competitive puzzle-arcade fighting game where you stack colored blocks and detonate them using matching bombs. Chain together devastating combos and dominate the leaderboards! Play through an intense single-player campaign, challenge your friends online, and fight your way to the top!
ActionSteam ↗HEXOPODS
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for STARWHAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with STARWHAL.
Hexopods is the frenetic twin-stick shooter for hardcore players! Try to beat your friends or an AI in this multiplayer bullet hell! Adapt your experience as you please with its modular game modes for infinite replayability!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below STARWHAL at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under STARWHAL on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with STARWHAL.
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 ~58% under STARWHAL on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with STARWHAL.
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 ~42% under STARWHAL on Steam right now. Shares Action with STARWHAL.
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.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under STARWHAL on Steam right now. Shares Action with STARWHAL.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under STARWHAL on Steam right now. Shares Indie with STARWHAL.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under STARWHAL on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with STARWHAL.
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 ~58% under STARWHAL on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with STARWHAL.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under STARWHAL on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with STARWHAL.
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?
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 with STARWHAL.
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 STARWHAL.
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?
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 STARWHAL.
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 Action and Indie with STARWHAL.
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 Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with STARWHAL.
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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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.
Lethal League
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with STARWHAL.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Sports with STARWHAL.
Lethal League is a competitive projectile fighting game where you have to hit an anti-gravity ball into the face of your opponent to win. The ball speeds up with every strike, up to explosively extreme velocities. Play intense local matches with friends and foes, challenge yourself in the singleplayer mode or battle it out online.
Island Bender
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with STARWHAL.
Throw Rocks at each other, collect Powerups, and play with up to 6 players in Local Multiplayer.
Frequently asked about STARWHAL
- Is STARWHAL verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — STARWHAL is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does STARWHAL cost?
- STARWHAL is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does STARWHAL have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — STARWHAL supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to STARWHAL?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside STARWHAL are Nidhogg, Off the Beaten Track, Lethal League.
- Who developed STARWHAL?
- STARWHAL was developed by Breakfall.
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 STARWHAL.
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