Games like Star Scum
If Star Scum is your kind of game, the closest matches are Xeno Strike, Tank General and Anachron — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Star Scum: Star Scum is a strategy game that fuses deckbuilding with tight turn-based tactics. Forge your deck and customize your ship in the roguelike run, or build decks from scratch and test them out in custom battles or online multiplayer.
Players who liked Star Scum also play
Steam players who put hours into Star Scum 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.
Xeno Strike
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Top pick for Star Scum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Scum.
Build your collection, construct decks, and duel against other players in a sci-fi card battler.
Tank General
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Second-strongest match for Star Scum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Scum.
Tank General, a World War II-themed card game with unique gameplay mechanics, deep tactical combat, and an easy entry level. Build your deck, battle against humans and AI, complete campaigns and raids, and explore new cards and headquarters!
Anachron
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Third-strongest match for Star Scum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Scum.
What if Joan of Arc fought alongside Blackbeard? In Anachron, you weave a dream team of 4 historical heroes to clash in a tactical, turn-based Arena. Build a custom deck for each champion from their unique abilities and unleash history-defying combos.
Gelecard: Guerreiros Gelatinosos
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Ranked #4 for Star Scum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Scum.
Gelecard: Gelatinous Warriors is a fun card game featuring the adorable SLIMES! These cute little creatures are ready to wreak havoc on the game boards.
Star Squadrons: Galactic Trading Card Game
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Ranked #5 for Star Scum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Scum.
Star Squadrons is a fast-paced, tactical sci-fi card game WITHOUT MANA, where you deploy cards face down, interact nonstop, and win through clever location control. Secure your Founder status ahead of the Kickstarter in late 2026 / early 2027! Play the browser-based Early Alpha now!
Hackagon: Cyber Card Battler
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Ranked #6 for Star Scum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Scum.
HACKAGON is a fast 1v1 cyber card battler. Breach the network with the red team or defend it with the blue team. Cards are played face-down and revealed at the same time, so victory comes from reading your opponent, not moving first. Build your 12-card deck, claim the areas, and take the network.
Grid Tactics: Duel
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Ranked #7 for Star Scum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Scum.
Grid Tactics: Duel is a competitive card game built on an 8×8 grid. Every move is about positioning, timing, and resource trade-offs. With limited resources, choose when and where to play—set up or apply pressure. Each placement reshapes the board. Win through deckbuilding and precise execution.
Monster Train
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Ranked #8 for Star Scum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Star Scum.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Star Scum at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~87% under Star Scum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Star Scum.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~60% under Star Scum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Star Scum.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~50% under Star Scum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Star Scum.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~73% under Star Scum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Star Scum.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~80% under Star Scum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Star Scum.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~60% under Star Scum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Star Scum.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
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Priced ~47% under Star Scum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Star Scum.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~60% under Star Scum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Star Scum.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Star Scum.
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?
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Star Scum.
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 Indie with Star Scum.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Star Scum.
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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Star Scum.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
The Lab
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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!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Star Scum.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Star Scum.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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Frequently asked about Star Scum
- How much does Star Scum cost?
- Star Scum is listed on Steam at 7.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Star Scum have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Star Scum supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Star Scum?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Star Scum are Xeno Strike, Tank General, Anachron.
- Who developed Star Scum?
- Star Scum was developed by Soft Realm.
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 Scum.
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