Games like Starground
Below are 18 hand-picked alternatives to Starground for fans of strategy, indie, simulation, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Starground also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, and Steam Deck–friendly options. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Starground: Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends. Solve logic puzzles and automate resource collection and crafting, or venture into dungeons filled with dangers and rewards. Find your own ideal gameplay balance, as any unique path will advance the story!
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Factorio
Top pick for Starground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
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.
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Satisfactory
Second-strongest match for Starground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
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!
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Hammerting
Third-strongest match for Starground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
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FOUNDRY
Ranked #4 for Starground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
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Astro Colony
Ranked #5 for Starground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
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Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
Ranked #6 for Starground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
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The Riftbreaker
Ranked #7 for Starground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
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shapez
Ranked #8 for Starground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Starground
Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.
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Factorio
Reviewers of Starground cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
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.
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Forager
Reviewers of Starground cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starground.
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
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Star Valor
Reviewers of Starground cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Starground.
Choose your own destiny as you explore an open-world procedurally generated galaxy where anything is possible. Become a miner, a trader, a bounty hunter, a pirate, or perhaps a jack of all trades. Start off small and build your way to the top but remember with every action, comes consequences.
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The Planet Crafter
Reviewers of Starground cross-mention this title as a similar play.
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
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Nova Lands
Reviewers of Starground cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
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Core Keeper
Reviewers of Starground cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starground.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
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Factorio
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
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.
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Satisfactory
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
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!
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Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Frequently asked about Starground
- Does Starground run on Steam Deck?
- Starground 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 Starground cost?
- Starground is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Starground have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Starground supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Starground?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Starground are Factorio, Satisfactory, Hammerting.
- Who developed Starground?
- Starground was developed by Big Boy Games and published by 2 Left Thumbs.
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 Starground.
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