Games like Star Control®: Origins
If Star Control®: Origins is your kind of game, the closest matches are UFO : Brawlers from Beyond, STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection and Galactic Economy — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its lighthearted space exploration, funny and lighthearted. 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 →Star Control®: Origins is a space role-playing game developed by Stardock Entertainment in which players command Earth's first interstellar starship on a mission to save the planet from hostile alien empires. The gameplay combines faction diplomacy, planet exploration, and real-time space combat with resource gathering and ship customization mechanics. Reviewers describe the experience as funny, lighthearted, and nostalgic, with players highlighting the voice acting as bringing the colorful alien characters to life. The game also includes a quest guide system to help navigate its medium-length adventure. Originally released in 2018, it is currently priced at $19.99 and is not supported on Steam Deck. Based on 1,648 Steam reviews, it holds a 77% positive reception.
About Star Control®: Origins: Star Control is a space role-playing game in which you command Earth's first interstellar starship on a mission to save the Earth from hostile alien empires.
Players who liked Star Control®: Origins also play
Steam players who put hours into Star Control®: Origins 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.
UFO : Brawlers from Beyond
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Top pick for Star Control®: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Control®: Origins.
"UFO : Brawlers from Beyond"! A fast action multiplayer shooter set during an intergalactic televised tournament where EARTH has been chosen as the BATTLEFIELD!
STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Star Control®: Origins.
Second-strongest match for Star Control®: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Star Control®: Origins.
Play the classic STAR WARS™ Battlefront games, online and offline in this definitive collection.
Galactic Economy
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Star Control®: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Star Control®: Origins.
Your road to financial freedom leads to the stars. Acquire strategic sectors, manage complex loans, and mitigate systemic risks to grow your passive income. A gritty sci-fi tycoon strategy game where every decision determines your path to galactic domination.
Cosmotroid
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Star Control®: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Control®: Origins.
Escape from the asteroid X-474 which has been invaded by aliens. Take your weapons and destroy every enemy who tries to stop you in this amazing arcade style third person shooter game full of action, creatures and explosions.
Dead Space™ 2
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Ranked #5 for Star Control®: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Control®: Origins.
Three years after the Necromorph infestation aboard the USS Ishimura, Isaac Clarke awakens from a coma, confused, disoriented, and on a space station called The Sprawl. Explore this world and its zero-g environments to discover the truth about the Unitology and its role in the Necromorph epidemic.
Orange Cast: Sci-Fi Space Action Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Star Control®: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Control®: Origins.
As humanity’s elite space trooper, you take on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy. Explore planets, protect colonies, and be the first to meet the unknown! Dive into the original story inspired by James S.A. Corey’s The Expanse series...
Destroy All Humans! – Clone Carnage
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Shares a funny mood with Star Control®: Origins.
Ranked #7 for Star Control®: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Control®: Origins.
Wreak havoc in Clone Carnage! This standalone DLC comes with 4 modes, 6 maps, and up to 4-player multiplayer. Split-screen lets you double the damage in local 2-player multiplayer. Unleash your wild side in Rampage, Armageddon, Race, and Abduction modes!
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
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Shares a funny mood with Star Control®: Origins.
Ranked #8 for Star Control®: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Control®: Origins.
Fire up a wild ride across the cosmos with a fresh take on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. In this action-adventure game, you are Star-Lord leading the unpredictable Guardians from one explosion of chaos to the next. You got this. Probably.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Star Control®: Origins
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Star Control III
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Star Control®: Origins.
Reviewers of Star Control®: Origins cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Control®: Origins.
The universe is on the brink of destruction. It’s up to you to embark on an epic adventure of strategy and diplomacy to save thousands of worlds from total annihilation. But no pressure, right?
Star Control I and II
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Star Control®: Origins.
Reviewers of Star Control®: Origins cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Control®: Origins.
Explore a vast universe with pulse-pounding action, side-splitting humor, and hair-raising plot twists in these 2 classic space adventure games.
Mass Effect (2007)
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Shares planet exploration with Star Control®: Origins.
Reviewers of Star Control®: Origins cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Star Control®: Origins.
As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Star Control®: Origins at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Star Control®: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Star Control®: Origins.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Star Control®: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Control®: Origins.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Star Control®: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Action with Star Control®: Origins.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Star Control®: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Action and Simulation with Star Control®: Origins.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Star Control®: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Action with Star Control®: Origins.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Star Control®: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Action with Star Control®: Origins.
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!
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 Star Control®: Origins.
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 Action with Star Control®: Origins.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Star Control®: Origins.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Control®: Origins.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Star Control®: Origins.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Star Control®: Origins.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Control®: Origins.
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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More from Stardock Entertainment
Other recommendable Steam games by Stardock Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
WHY THIS
Another title from Stardock Entertainment, the studio behind Star Control®: Origins. Shares Action and Simulation with Star Control®: Origins.
Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.
Galactic Civilizations III
WHY THIS
Shares faction diplomacy and ship customization with Star Control®: Origins.
Another title from Stardock Entertainment, the studio behind Star Control®: Origins.
Build a civilization that will stand the test of time in the largest space-based strategy game ever! Choose from dozens of unique races and make a name for yourself across the galaxy through diplomacy, espionage, technological advances, and more.
Sins of a Solar Empire II
WHY THIS
Another title from Stardock Entertainment, the studio behind Star Control®: Origins. Shares Simulation with Star Control®: Origins.
Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
WHY THIS
Another title from Stardock Entertainment, the studio behind Star Control®: Origins. Shares Simulation with Star Control®: Origins.
A massive-scale real-time strategy game where you command entire armies on a dynamic battlefield. Conquer multiple worlds across several single-player campaigns; or play with your friends in multiplayer combat.
Galactic Civilizations IV
WHY THIS
Another title from Stardock Entertainment, the studio behind Star Control®: Origins. Shares Simulation with Star Control®: Origins.
Take command of a civilization that has just achieved faster-than-light travel in Galactic Civilizations IV, the newest entry in the award-winning space 4X strategy game series. Explore the galaxy, colonize worlds, shape cultures, make alliances, fight wars and pioneer new technologies.
Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Star Control®: Origins.
Another title from Stardock Entertainment, the studio behind Star Control®: Origins.
Fallen Enchantress is 4X strategy game from the makers of Sins of a Solar Empire and Galactic Civilizations. Build a civilization in the magical world of Elemental. Recruit heroes, train armies, build cities, forge alliances and save the world in this rich world where it's never the same game twice.
Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Star Control®: Origins.
Another title from Stardock Entertainment, the studio behind Star Control®: Origins.
Get the complete GalCiv II saga including Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, the expansion pack Dark Avatar, and the newest expansion pack Twilight of the Arnor!
The Political Machine 2020
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Star Control®: Origins.
Another title from Stardock Entertainment, the studio behind Star Control®: Origins. Shares Simulation with Star Control®: Origins.
Win the hearts and minds of America’s voters and take the 2020 presidential election by storm in Stardock’s popular political strategy game. Choose a candidate and run against a computer opponent or a candidate controlled by another person over the Internet.
Frequently asked about Star Control®: Origins
- Does Star Control®: Origins work on Steam Deck?
- Star Control®: Origins is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Star Control®: Origins cost?
- Star Control®: Origins is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Star Control®: Origins have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Star Control®: Origins supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Star Control®: Origins?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Star Control®: Origins are UFO : Brawlers from Beyond, STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection, Galactic Economy.
- Who developed Star Control®: Origins?
- Star Control®: Origins was developed by Stardock Entertainment.
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 Star Control®: Origins.
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