Games like Into the Stars
If Into the Stars is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Long Journey Home, Ceres and Shortest Trip to Earth — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bridge management feels immersive, atmospheric and bleak. 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 Into the Stars: Take the role of Captain in this Space Survival Simulation as you explore a massive star system in search of a new home for humanity. Outfit your ship, hand pick your crew and set off on a journey through an open-world where you must scavenge resources, shelter civilians and outrun a hostile alien force.
Players who liked Into the Stars also play
Steam players who put hours into Into the Stars 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.
The Long Journey Home
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Into the Stars.
Top pick for Into the Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Stars.
The Long Journey Home combines an open world full of galaxies, planets and anomalies with quests and mechanics of a rogue-like RPG. One destination. Endless adventures. Where will this journey take you?
Ceres
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Into the Stars.
Second-strongest match for Into the Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Into the Stars.
Take control of a squadron of ships in full 3D space combat. Explore, battle and trade your way through a pirate, machine and monster-infested solar system.
Shortest Trip to Earth
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Into the Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Into the Stars.
Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.
Battlevoid: Harbinger
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Into the Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Into the Stars.
Battlevoid: Harbinger is a hard sci-fi space exploration game blending roguelike, turn-based, star map strategy, and real-time space battles. You are a young commander venturing out into enemy territories, to unknown galaxies, never knowing what you will face as you jump out from hyperspace.
EVERSPACE™
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Into the Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Into the Stars.
EVERSPACE™ combines fast-paced combat with roguelike elements, great visuals and a captivating story. It takes you on a challenging journey through an ever-changing, beautifully crafted universe full of surprises. Shoot, craft and loot your way to victory while the odds are stacked against you.
Heat Signature
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Into the Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Into the Stars.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
Spacebase DF-9
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Into the Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Stars.
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
Starpoint Gemini Warlords
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Into the Stars.
Ranked #8 for Into the Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Into the Stars.
Strategy from the front lines! Starpoint Gemini Warlords combines 3rd person capital spaceship combat with 4X strategy and RPG gameplay elements. Build mighty war fleets and send them into battle or lead them into combat yourself. Become the Warlord and conquer the Gemini system!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Into the Stars at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Into the Stars on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Into the 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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under Into the Stars on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Into the Stars.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Into the Stars on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Into the Stars.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Into the Stars on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Into the Stars.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under Into the Stars on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Into the Stars.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Into the Stars on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Stars.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under Into the Stars on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Into the Stars.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under Into the Stars on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Into the Stars.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
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 Into the Stars.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Into the Stars.
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.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Into the Stars.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Into the Stars.
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 Indie with Into the Stars.
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.
Unturned
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Into the Stars.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
SCP: Secret Laboratory
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Into the Stars.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
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Frequently asked about Into the Stars
- How much does Into the Stars cost?
- Into the Stars is listed on Steam at 3.59 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Into the Stars?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Into the Stars are The Long Journey Home, Ceres, Shortest Trip to Earth.
- Who developed Into the Stars?
- Into the Stars was developed by Fugitive Games and published by Iceberg Interactive.
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 Into the Stars.
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