Games like Star Traders: Frontiers
If Star Traders: Frontiers is your kind of game, the closest matches are VOID PROFIT, Mortal Glory and Depth of Extinction — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its writing quality is exceptional, challenging and immersive. 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 Traders: Frontiers is a turn-based strategy RPG developed by Trese Brothers and released in 2018. Set in a massive open sci-fi universe, the game centers on faction politics, diplomacy systems, and emergent narrative generated through procedural means. Players manage a crew and command a starship through tactical combat encounters while navigating political conflicts between competing factions. Players describe it as immersive and challenging, with regular free updates from the developers keeping the experience evolving over time. Reviewers highlight the substantial replay value, noting that different captain choices unlock varied faction narratives and strategic paths. The game runs in playable condition on Steam Deck and holds an 84% positive rating from over 3,200 Steam reviews.
About Star Traders: Frontiers: You are the captain of a starship venturing through a massive open universe. Customize your crew and take command at the helm of your very own ship as you explore a galaxy torn apart by internal strife, alien threats, and political intrigue.
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VOID PROFIT
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Top pick for Star Traders: Frontiers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Fly a rented ship in a procedurally-generated universe, navigate risky routes, and profit from changing markets before the opportunity disappears and you lose it all. Take jobs, navigate the markets, smuggle, lie. Do everything in order to keep flying.
Mortal Glory
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Second-strongest match for Star Traders: Frontiers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Mortal Glory is a fantasy-themed tactical roguelike game about recruiting a team of gladiators and pitting them against brutal competition in a blood-soaked tournament. Train your gladiators, find a legendary sword, learn ancient spells, recruit a celebrity, cheat - do whatever it takes to bring glory to your name!
Depth of Extinction
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Third-strongest match for Star Traders: Frontiers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Explore a flooded world and save humanity from a terrible threat in this turn based, tactical RPG with roguelike elements
Templar Battleforce
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Ranked #4 for Star Traders: Frontiers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Star Traders: Frontiers.
An addictive mix of strategic combat and army building, with the precision of an RPG. Design your squad members' exact build of equipment and talents to create unique fireteam combinations. Step into the pilot suit of a Leviathan mech, lead the Templar Knights in turn-based tactical warfare.
Starpoint Gemini 2
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Shares an immersive mood with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Ranked #5 for Star Traders: Frontiers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Captain your own space ship and roam the galaxy in 3D in this tactical space simulator with tons of RPG depth ! Space has never looked so inviting - but images can betray...It has been two years since the end of the second Gemini war, the situation in the wartorn system is further from resolution than ever.
Mortal Glory 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Ranked #6 for Star Traders: Frontiers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Manage a team of traveling gladiators in this turn-based fantasy roguelike. Find the best recruits, discover powerful item combinations and come up with clever tactics on the battlefield. The tournament awaits those who desire MORTAL GLORY!
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Ranked #7 for Star Traders: Frontiers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Ostranauts
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Shares an immersive mood with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Ranked #8 for Star Traders: Frontiers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
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Shadowrun Chronicles - Boston Lockdown
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Shares an immersive mood with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Reviewers of Star Traders: Frontiers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Lead your team of Runners to survive a corrupt megacorporation’s intrigue threatening thousands of lives in this new action-strategy game set in the most popular cyberpunk universe of all times – Shadowrun.
Dress-up Traveller
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Reviewers of Star Traders: Frontiers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Star Traders: Frontiers.
"Dress-Up Traveler" is a pixel style side scroll dress-up action game! Defeat enemies and collect materials to create equipment!
Starvector
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Reviewers of Star Traders: Frontiers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Star Traders: Frontiers at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under Star Traders: Frontiers on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Star Traders: Frontiers.
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!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~50% under Star Traders: Frontiers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Star Traders: Frontiers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Star Traders: Frontiers.
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 ~47% under Star Traders: Frontiers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Star Traders: Frontiers.
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
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Priced ~67% under Star Traders: Frontiers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Star Traders: Frontiers.
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.
Noita
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Priced ~47% under Star Traders: Frontiers on Steam right now.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Star Traders: Frontiers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Brotato
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Priced ~67% under Star Traders: Frontiers on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Star Traders: Frontiers.
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
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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!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Star Traders: Frontiers.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Star Traders: Frontiers.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Counter-Strike 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Trese Brothers, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Another title from Trese Brothers, the studio behind Star Traders: Frontiers. Shares Strategy and RPG with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!
Templar Battleforce
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Another title from Trese Brothers, the studio behind Star Traders: Frontiers. Shares Strategy and RPG with Star Traders: Frontiers.
An addictive mix of strategic combat and army building, with the precision of an RPG. Design your squad members' exact build of equipment and talents to create unique fireteam combinations. Step into the pilot suit of a Leviathan mech, lead the Templar Knights in turn-based tactical warfare.
Heroes of Steel RPG
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Another title from Trese Brothers, the studio behind Star Traders: Frontiers. Shares Strategy and RPG with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Heroes of Steel is a tactical RPG set in a grim post-apocalyptic fantasy world. Coordinate your party of four heroes in turn-based combat and navigate a engaging world and story.
Star Traders: 4X Empires
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and a challenging mood with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Another title from Trese Brothers, the studio behind Star Traders: Frontiers. Shares Strategy with Star Traders: Frontiers.
Take command of humanity’s last survivors and rebuild an empire in the stars. In this immersive turn-based strategy game, you will have to fight to protect your people, control rival factions, and unlock lost technology.
Frequently asked about Star Traders: Frontiers
- Does Star Traders: Frontiers run on Steam Deck?
- Star Traders: Frontiers 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 Traders: Frontiers cost?
- Star Traders: Frontiers is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Star Traders: Frontiers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Star Traders: Frontiers are VOID PROFIT, Mortal Glory, Depth of Extinction.
- Who developed Star Traders: Frontiers?
- Star Traders: Frontiers was developed by Trese Brothers.
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