Games like Devouring Stars
If Devouring Stars is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pixel: ru², DG2: Defense Grid 2 and Lords of the Black Sun — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its beautiful soundtrack enhances immersion, fluid animations captivate players and atmospheric. 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 Devouring Stars: What if you could unhook the stars and fight your battles with black holes? With its mix of adaptative unit combination, space resource harvesting as well as visual and audio refinement, Devouring Stars aspires to bring a different scope to the RTS genre.
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Pixel: ru²
WHY THIS
Top pick for Devouring Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
Play as a pixel adventuring through image files in a digital world where physics aren't constant. Run, jump, flip upside down, and rotate your gravity. Use weapons to destroy other pixels before they destroy you. Collect bits of data from challenging locations to find out why your world must survive at all costs.
DG2: Defense Grid 2
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Devouring Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.
Lords of the Black Sun
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Devouring Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
Take command of one race to join the struggle for supremacy in the galaxy. As the leader of your empire you are tasked with exploring the stars, colonizing new worlds, managing your empire and conquering whoever dares to oppose you.
Bionic Dues
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Devouring Stars.
Ranked #4 for Devouring Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
Bionic Dues is a tactical, turn-based roguelite with mech customization. Out-think wide-ranging tactical situations featuring robots with bad GPS, terrible aim, insecurity, a lack of focus, a tendency to backstab, and dozens of other maladies to exploit.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Devouring Stars.
Ranked #5 for Devouring Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Fallen: A2P Protocol
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Devouring Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
A post-apocalyptic, turn based, tactical combat and strategy game where you lead your caravan on a quest for revenge.
Conflicks - Revolutionary Space Battles
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Devouring Stars.
Ranked #7 for Devouring Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
Spaceships, lasers, and… chickens! What more could you ask for?Conflicks: Revolutionary Space Battles is a creative new take on space-themed videogames that merges the deep, thoughtful gameplay of strategy games with the intuitive accessibility of physics-based games.
Hard West
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Devouring Stars.
Ranked #8 for Devouring Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Devouring Stars at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Devouring Stars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Devouring Stars.
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 ~50% under Devouring Stars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Devouring Stars.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Devouring Stars on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Devouring Stars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Devouring Stars.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Devouring Stars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Devouring Stars.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Devouring Stars on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Devouring Stars.
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.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Devouring Stars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Devouring Stars.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Devouring Stars on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Devouring Stars.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Devouring Stars.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Devouring Stars.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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More from Nerial
Other recommendable Steam games by Nerial, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Reigns
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Devouring Stars.
Another title from Nerial, the studio behind Devouring Stars. Shares Indie with Devouring Stars.
Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.
Card Shark
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Devouring Stars.
Another title from Nerial, the studio behind Devouring Stars. Shares Indie with Devouring Stars.
Card Shark is an adventure game full of cunning, intrigue, and delectable deceit. Enter a world where you’ll need to play your opponents better than you play your cards.
Reigns: Her Majesty
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Devouring Stars.
Another title from Nerial, the studio behind Devouring Stars. Shares Indie with Devouring Stars.
Reigns: Her Majesty is the revolutionary follow-up to the smash swipe ‘em up hit Reigns.
Reigns: Game of Thrones
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Devouring Stars.
Another title from Nerial, the studio behind Devouring Stars. Shares Indie with Devouring Stars.
Reigns: Game of Thrones is the heir to the award-winning HBO® TV series Game of Thrones® and the smash-hit swipe ‘em up series Reigns from Nerial and Devolver Digital.
The Crush House
WHY THIS
Another title from Nerial, the studio behind Devouring Stars.
Film and produce 1999's hottest reality TV show: The Crush House! Select a crush-worthy cast, satisfy voracious audiences and keep the show on air to uncover the sinister secrets behind this darkly comic thirst-person shooter.
Reigns: Three Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Devouring Stars.
Another title from Nerial, the studio behind Devouring Stars.
Swipe through military negotiations, marry to strengthen alliances and recruit soldiers to fight in turn-based card battles in this historical epic.
Orwell's Animal Farm
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Devouring Stars.
Another title from Nerial, the studio behind Devouring Stars. Shares Indie with Devouring Stars.
Orwell’s Animal Farm is a text-based choice-driven narrative game where all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Immerse yourself in George Orwell's story of absolute power and corruption and follow the ups and downs of Animalism.
Reigns: The Witcher
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Devouring Stars.
Another title from Nerial, the studio behind Devouring Stars.
Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.
Frequently asked about Devouring Stars
- How much does Devouring Stars cost?
- Devouring Stars is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Devouring Stars have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Devouring Stars supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Devouring Stars?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Devouring Stars are Pixel: ru², DG2: Defense Grid 2, Lords of the Black Sun.
- Who developed Devouring Stars?
- Devouring Stars was developed by Nerial and published by BulkyPix.
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