Games like Star Scavenger
If Star Scavenger is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gunmancer, Rick Henderson and Void Resurgence — 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 Scavenger: Dig your way out of debt. Star Scavenger is a roguelike top-down shooter about blasting asteroids to get the precious minerals inside. Scavenge, dodge pirates, and beat the market to free yourself from an unjust punishment.
Players who liked Star Scavenger also play
Steam players who put hours into Star Scavenger 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.
Gunmancer
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Top pick for Star Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Scavenger.
Gunmancer is a science fantasy roguelike top-down shooter. Summon guns as you shoot your way through mysterious randomly generated dungeons full of ancient forbidden magic of guns and dangerous monsters.
Rick Henderson
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Star Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Scavenger.
Rick Henderson is an endless horizontal-scrolling shoot 'em up with infinite replayability, a true homage to 16-bit shooters wrapped in graphics we all loved. Twitch your fingers through five enemy factions and their bosses, upgrade your ship and try to survive through unpredictable space events.
Void Resurgence
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Third-strongest match for Star Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Scavenger.
Command a starship in Void Resurgence, a retro-futuristic space roguelite. Battle through colorful cosmic fields, collect upgrades, and build your ultimate ship. Dodge intense bullet-hell patterns and fight for survival. Every run offers new challenges and permanent progress.
Hyper Sphere
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Ranked #4 for Star Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Star Scavenger.
Hyper Sphere is a high-octane roguelite bullet hell where you shoot, parry and dodge through waves of evil cubes. Combine a wide variety of wacky items to create broken builds, parry projectiles back at your enemies, and defeat the final boss.
Crush The Rebellion!
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Ranked #5 for Star Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Scavenger.
The galactic empire is under siege from the rebel scum in all directions! Fight through endless waves of rebel ships using all of the weapons and resources at your disposal as you execute your sole orders: to Crush The Rebellion!
Exodemic
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Ranked #6 for Star Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Scavenger.
Destroy aliens, dash between planets, and buy powerful upgrades. Exodemic is a compact roguelike that combines frenetic shoot 'em up gameplay with a procedurally generated overworld filled with vendors, trading hubs, and combat encounters. Race against the clock to save the human race.
The Art Of Flight
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Ranked #7 for Star Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Scavenger.
Play solo or with your friends in this fast-paced space shooter. Pilot multiple ships at the same time while taking on waves of enemies, finding power-ups, and gaining additional episodes along the way. Who will make it to the top of the leaderboard?
Cards and Guns
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Ranked #8 for Star Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Scavenger.
Cards and Guns is a top-down arena shooter roguelite, where you’ll have to defeat hordes of creatures. Choose from a variety of cards and upgrades to create unique builds and survive to the end.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Star Scavenger at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Star Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Star Scavenger.
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
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Priced ~50% under Star Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Star Scavenger.
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!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~55% under Star Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Action with Star Scavenger.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Star Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Star Scavenger.
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
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Priced ~50% under Star Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Star Scavenger.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Star Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Star Scavenger.
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 ~70% under Star Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Star Scavenger.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Star Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Star Scavenger.
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.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Star Scavenger.
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?
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Star Scavenger.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Star Scavenger.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Star Scavenger.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Star Scavenger.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Star Scavenger.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Star Scavenger.
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.
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Frequently asked about Star Scavenger
- How much does Star Scavenger cost?
- Star Scavenger is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Star Scavenger?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Star Scavenger are Gunmancer, Rick Henderson, Void Resurgence.
- Who developed Star Scavenger?
- Star Scavenger was developed by Nathaniel Jones.
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 Scavenger.
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