Games like Star Crafter
If Star Crafter is your kind of game, the closest matches are Outerverse, Chocolate Factory and Orebound — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and contemplative. 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 Crafter: A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Players who liked Star Crafter also play
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Outerverse
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Crafter.
Top pick for Star Crafter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
Build automated machines and weapons across the universe, beat massive bosses, experience cosmic events and explore unique landmarks in this quest driven automation crafting adventure game. Includes a manual scenario for crafting instead of machines for those not a fan of logic/automation!
Chocolate Factory
WHY THIS
Shares tech tree progression, crafting system and a chill mood with Star Crafter.
Second-strongest match for Star Crafter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Orebound
WHY THIS
Shares crafting system, base building and an atmospheric mood with Star Crafter.
Third-strongest match for Star Crafter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a contemplative mood with Star Crafter.
Ranked #4 for Star Crafter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Crafter.
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!
Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Crafter.
Ranked #5 for Star Crafter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.
TerraTech Worlds
WHY THIS
Shares tech tree progression, open world exploration, grindy and a contemplative mood with Star Crafter.
Ranked #6 for Star Crafter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
FortressCraft Evolved!
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Star Crafter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Crafter.
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
The Planet Crafter
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Star Crafter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Star Crafter.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Star Crafter
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No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares base building, exploration and an atmospheric mood with Star Crafter.
Reviewers of Star Crafter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Crafter.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a contemplative mood with Star Crafter.
Reviewers of Star Crafter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Crafter.
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 Planet Crafter
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Star Crafter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Star Crafter.
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.
Outer Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Crafter.
Reviewers of Star Crafter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Crafter.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Star Crafter.
Reviewers of Star Crafter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Crafter.
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.
Dyson Sphere Program
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Star Crafter.
Reviewers of Star Crafter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Crafter.
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Star Crafter at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Star Crafter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Crafter.
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 Crafter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Star Crafter on Steam right now. Shares Action with Star Crafter.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Star Crafter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Star Crafter on Steam right now. Shares Action with Star Crafter.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Crafter.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Star Crafter.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Star Crafter.
『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.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
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!
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More from Tbjbu2
Other recommendable Steam games by Tbjbu2, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Crafter.
Another title from Tbjbu2, the studio behind Star Crafter. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.
Chocolate Factory
WHY THIS
Shares tech tree progression, crafting system and a chill mood with Star Crafter.
Another title from Tbjbu2, the studio behind Star Crafter. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
Outerverse
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Crafter.
Another title from Tbjbu2, the studio behind Star Crafter. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
Build automated machines and weapons across the universe, beat massive bosses, experience cosmic events and explore unique landmarks in this quest driven automation crafting adventure game. Includes a manual scenario for crafting instead of machines for those not a fan of logic/automation!
Contrablade: Stadium Rush
WHY THIS
Another title from Tbjbu2, the studio behind Star Crafter. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
Let it rip! Control your own Contrablade to knock out your opponent and reach the farthest to unlock new parts, abilities, and upgrades in this unique and addictive physics fighting action roguelite arcade game!
Grand Emprise 2: Portals Apart
WHY THIS
Shares survival management, base building, grindy and an atmospheric mood with Star Crafter.
Another title from Tbjbu2, the studio behind Star Crafter. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
⛏️ Survival crafting adventure 💎 🌌 Through magical portals 🌀 👹 Into fantasy worlds 🏰 ⚡ Once-in-a-lifetime, high-paced, high-variety 💨 ⏳ The sequel to Grand Emprise: Time Travel 🕰️
World Crafter TD
WHY THIS
Shares survival management, resource gathering, grindy and a chill mood with Star Crafter.
Another title from Tbjbu2, the studio behind Star Crafter. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies in World Crafter TD!
World Crafter TD: Prologue
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering, base building and a chill mood with Star Crafter.
Another title from Tbjbu2, the studio behind Star Crafter. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies! The prologue for the full game, World Crafter TD!
My Money Grows On Trees
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering and a chill mood with Star Crafter.
Another title from Tbjbu2, the studio behind Star Crafter. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
Click. Water. Grow. Harvest. Explore. Upgrade. Profit. An incremental-minimalist clicker farming game about growing your own farm full of money trees! 🌳 Ever wondered what it'd be like if money grew on trees? 💸Online co-op supported!
Frequently asked about Star Crafter
- Does Star Crafter run on Steam Deck?
- Star Crafter 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 Crafter cost?
- Star Crafter is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Star Crafter?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Star Crafter are Outerverse, Chocolate Factory, Orebound.
- Who developed Star Crafter?
- Star Crafter was developed by Tbjbu2 and published by Tbjbu2, PlayWay S.A..
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 Crafter.
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