Games like The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed
If The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone, Duck Season and Hover Junkers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its short but impactful narrative, sound design enhances immersion and atmospheric. 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 →The Gallery: Call of the Starseed is a sci-fi adventure released in 2016 by Cloudhead Games. Players navigate the experience through teleport-based movement while solving environmental puzzles and managing inventory items, with narrative elements delivered through notes and audio recordings discovered in the world. Reviewers and players describe the atmosphere as eerie and mysterious, with the interactive nature of early VR feeling groundbreaking to some. The game is approximately two hours in length and runs in a sitting session format. It holds an 84% positive rating from 1,298 Steam reviews and received a 79 on Metacritic, priced at $14.99. The game does not support Steam Deck.
About The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed: Embark on the sci-fi epic that started it all at the dawn of modern VR, setting standards for roomscale movement and interaction for years to come. Winner of over 30 awards including "VR Game of the Year", The Gallery is VR's premier adventure series.
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The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Top pick for The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Embark on the sci-fi epic that started it all at the dawn of modern VR, setting standards for roomscale movement and interaction for years to come. Winner of over 30 awards including "VR Game of the Year", The Gallery is VR's premier adventure series.
Duck Season
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Second-strongest match for The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
The game of your dreams just dropped, DUCK SEASON, a hunter with ridiculous graphics. Luckily, it's summer vacation and Mom just surprised you with a one day rental of it! Unfortunately, as you binge play it becomes apparent that all is not right with Duck Season...
Hover Junkers
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Third-strongest match for The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Engage in multiplayer VR gunfights that capture real gun play like no FPS you've played before. Pilot and fortify Hover Junkers as you physically walk, duck, dodge and aim in cross ship combat.
The Lab
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Shares an immersive mood with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Ranked #4 for The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
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!
Arizona Sunshine®
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Ranked #5 for The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.
Fallout 4 VR
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Ranked #6 for The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Fallout 4, the legendary post-apocalyptic adventure from Bethesda Game Studios and winner of more than 200 ‘Best Of’ awards, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year, comes in its entirety to VR.
Job Simulator
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Ranked #7 for The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
In a world where robots have replaced all human jobs, step into the "Job Simulator" to learn what it was like 'to job'.
Crystal Rift
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Ranked #8 for The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
A grid-based dungeon-crawler, in classic first person perspective.An experiential horror challenge game that takes the player through a series of increasingly mysterious locations. Comes with Full Dungeon Editor. Designed with full Virtual Reality support for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
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Obduction
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A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
The Lab
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Shares an immersive mood with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Reviewers of The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed cross-mention this title as a similar play.
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!
Half-Life: Alyx
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Reviewers of The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.
Stranger Things 3: The Game
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Reviewers of The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Stranger Things 3: The Game is the official companion game to Season 3 of the hit original series! Play through familiar events from the series while also uncovering never-before-seen quests, character interactions, and secrets!
DIG THE GROUND
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Reviewers of The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Dig the Ground is a unique Match3 puzzler in which you have to match gems of the same color and use all sorts of tools to clear the ground tiles beneath you.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
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
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Priced ~67% under The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
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!
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
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?
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
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
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Priced ~47% under The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
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...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~67% under The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
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
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Priced ~67% under The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
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Priced ~47% under The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
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.
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Pistol Whip
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Shares an immersive mood with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Another title from Cloudhead Games Ltd., the studio behind The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed. Shares Indie with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Enter: the ultimate action hero. Pistol Whip is a physical action-rhythm game where film-inspired gunplay and blood-pumping beats collide. Blast, duck and dodge your way through fever dream Scenes, build unique rhythms in a ballet of bullets and claim glory on the leaderboards. Includes mod support!
The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Another title from Cloudhead Games Ltd., the studio behind The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Embark on the sci-fi epic that started it all at the dawn of modern VR, setting standards for roomscale movement and interaction for years to come. Winner of over 30 awards including "VR Game of the Year", The Gallery is VR's premier adventure series.
Heart of the Emberstone: Coliseum
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Another title from Cloudhead Games Ltd., the studio behind The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Coliseum gives you a telekinetic playground to wield a mystical power, solve puzzles, and meet "The Beast,” in a slice of fantasy from the VR world of The Gallery: Heart of the Emberstone.
Aperture Hand Lab
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Another title from Cloudhead Games Ltd., the studio behind The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed. Shares Adventure with The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed.
Experience the high fidelity virtual reality of your own hands like never before.
Frequently asked about The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed
- Does The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed work on Steam Deck?
- The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed cost?
- The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed are The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone, Duck Season, Hover Junkers.
- Who developed The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed?
- The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed was developed by Cloudhead Games Ltd..
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