Games like Star Birds
If Star Birds is your kind of game, the closest matches are Coremine Corp, ASEMA and Factory Town 2: Paradise — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its kurzgesagt style visuals shine, challenging and cozy. 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 Birds is a strategy and simulation game released in 2025 by Toukana Interactive, priced at $19.99. Set in space, it tasks players with mining asteroids and constructing production networks across levels. Reviewers highlight the game's distinctive visuals from the kurzgesagt brand, noting that the pipe-routing and factory-building mechanics feel satisfying. Players describe the puzzle levels as compact yet complete, with randomized objectives adding replayability. The game runs on Steam Deck and holds a 92% positive rating from over 1,700 Steam reviews. It features automation, resource management, and level progression within a cozy sci-fi setting.
About Star Birds: Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!
Players who liked Star Birds also play
Steam players who put hours into Star Birds 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.
Coremine Corp
WHY THIS
Top pick for Star Birds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Birds.
Welcome to CoreMine Corp. Your job here is to set up production chains, manage your electricity, juggle contracts and stock-up while upgrading your factory. Time to prove your worth.
ASEMA
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Star Birds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Star Birds.
Build a space factory. Mine, harvest, exploit. Manage logistics with railguns, ballistic payloads and gravity-bending haulers. Fight gravity with Focus, climb the tech tree. Expand and explore the solar system in this factory automation sim. Everything is a potential resource - even the Locals.
Factory Town 2: Paradise
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Star Birds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Birds.
A combination Town Builder + Factory Sim where you build a tropical island village, produce tons of goods, automate everything, and feed a giant sentient volcano in exchange for super powers!
Complex SKY
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Star Birds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Star Birds.
COMPLEX SKY is a futuristic city building game with a unique architecture system - build the city both ways, up and down! The world is devastated by pollution, and it’s up to you to create a fully self-sustainable city in the skies, and populate it with human settlers.
MineMogul
WHY THIS
Shares factory building, automation and cozy with Star Birds.
Ranked #5 for Star Birds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Birds.
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
MoteMancer
WHY THIS
Shares factory building, automation, indie and a whimsical mood with Star Birds.
Ranked #6 for Star Birds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Birds.
An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.
Block Factory
WHY THIS
Shares factory building, automation, puzzle and a cozy mood with Star Birds.
Ranked #7 for Star Birds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Birds.
Block Factory is a relaxing and creative building game where you craft delightful 3D figurines from blocks. Shape your designs and build flowing production lines in a peaceful factory world.
Mini Settlers: Prologue
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and cozy with Star Birds.
Ranked #8 for Star Birds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Star Birds.
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Star Birds
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The Witness
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a challenging mood with Star Birds.
Reviewers of Star Birds cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Star Birds.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares factory automation and a challenging mood with Star Birds.
Reviewers of Star Birds cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Birds.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
ASTRONEER
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Star Birds.
Reviewers of Star Birds cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Star Birds.
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Train Valley 2
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a relaxing mood with Star Birds.
Reviewers of Star Birds cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Birds.
Build bigger and more complex railway networks than ever before! Building on the success of the original, you’ll get more of what you loved about the original and then some. With increasingly difficult and complex challenges from local industries, the Valley has never felt so vast! ALL ABOARD!
A Monster's Expedition
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Star Birds.
Reviewers of Star Birds cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Birds.
An adorable and relaxing open world puzzle adventure for monsters who love to learn about humans!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Star Birds cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Birds.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Star Birds.
Reviewers of Star Birds cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Star Birds.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Star Birds at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Star Birds on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Birds.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Star Birds on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Star Birds.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Star Birds on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Birds.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Star Birds on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Star Birds.
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 ~65% under Star Birds on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Star Birds.
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 ~60% under Star Birds on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Star Birds.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Birds.
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?
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Star Birds.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Birds.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Birds.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Star Birds.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
100 Asian Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Birds.
🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Star Birds.
『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 Strategy and Indie with Star Birds.
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!
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Frequently asked about Star Birds
- Does Star Birds run on Steam Deck?
- Star Birds is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Star Birds cost?
- Star Birds is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Star Birds?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Star Birds are Coremine Corp, ASEMA, Factory Town 2: Paradise.
- Who developed Star Birds?
- Star Birds was developed by Toukana Interactive and published by Toukana Interactive, kurzgesagt - in a nutshell.
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 Birds.
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