Games like Starground
If Starground is your kind of game, the closest matches are FOUNDRY, Hammerting and Techtonica — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill 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 →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!
Players who liked Starground also play
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FOUNDRY
WHY THIS
Shares factory automation and procedural generation with Starground.
Top pick 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.
Hammerting
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Starground.
Second-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.
Techtonica
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Starground.
Third-strongest match for Starground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 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.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares factory automation and base building with Starground.
Ranked #5 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!
The Riftbreaker
WHY THIS
Shares base building and procedural generation with Starground.
Ranked #6 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.
Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Starground.
Ranked #7 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!
AutoForge
WHY THIS
Shares factory automation and a relaxing mood with Starground.
Ranked #8 for Starground fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Starground.
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Starground
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Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and procedural generation with Starground.
Reviewers of Starground cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Starground.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Star Valor
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Starground.
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.
The Planet Crafter
WHY THIS
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.
Nova Lands
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Starground.
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!
Core Keeper
WHY THIS
Shares automation, base building and an atmospheric mood with Starground.
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.
Factorio
WHY THIS
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.
Forager
WHY THIS
Shares automation, crafting and a chill mood with Starground.
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!
Delverium
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Starground cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Starground.
Explore, Build, Farm, Craft and Fight in this survival sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Delve deep to uncover the secret of the invading 'Faults' and restore stability to the land.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Starground at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Starground on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starground.
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 ~64% under Starground on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Starground.
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 ~50% under Starground on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Starground.
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 ~43% under Starground on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Starground.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Starground on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Starground.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Starground on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Starground on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Starground on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
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.
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 Starground.
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 Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starground.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starground.
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.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starground.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Electoral Carnage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Early Access with Starground.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starground.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
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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.
Factorio
WHY THIS
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.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares factory automation and base building with Starground.
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!
Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Starground.
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!
AutoForge
WHY THIS
Shares factory automation and a relaxing mood with Starground.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Starground.
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
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 FOUNDRY, Hammerting, Techtonica.
- 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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