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Games like Star Ores Inc.

If Star Ores Inc. is your kind of game, the closest matches are Industronaut, Infinite Space: Mining and Keep Digging — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cleanup narrative provides purpose, 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.

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About Star Ores Inc.: Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine. Cut through the asteroid with your laser, sell ore, and create an automated network of robot helpers to maximize your profit.

2025IndieSimulationCasual17.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindowsby BlackBeak Games
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Steam players who put hours into Star Ores Inc. 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.

  1. Industronaut

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Star Ores Inc. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Ores Inc..

    A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  2. Infinite Space: Mining

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Star Ores Inc. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Ores Inc..

    Build and automate your own industrial space empire. Mine asteroids, manage logistics, expand production lines with drones and conveyors, explore new sectors through wormholes, and grow your mining operation across the galaxy.

    ActionIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Keep Digging

    WHY THIS

    Shares upgrade system, resource management, casual and a chill mood with Star Ores Inc..

    Third-strongest match for Star Ores Inc. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Ores Inc..

    Keep Digging is a digging survival craft game for up to 8 players. Explore a procedurally generated 5000m underground world, bring back ores, blueprints, and fossils, then use the smelter, forge, and enchantments to build your gear! Team up in co-op or compete for items in PvP.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Orebound

    WHY THIS

    Shares automation, upgrade system, mining and a peaceful mood with Star Ores Inc..

    Ranked #4 for Star Ores Inc. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Ores Inc..

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure12.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. InfraSpace

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Star Ores Inc. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Ores Inc..

    Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Techtonica

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Star Ores Inc. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Ores Inc..

    Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Surviving Mars

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Star Ores Inc..

    Ranked #7 for Star Ores Inc. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Star Ores Inc..

    There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.

    2018StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  8. Fuel Harvest Together

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management, management and a relaxing mood with Star Ores Inc..

    Ranked #8 for Star Ores Inc. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Ores Inc..

    Play solo or co-op with up to 5 players to find oil, store crude, refine fuels, and sell them at gas stations and shop. Dig for gems and fossils, upgrade your gear, lease new land, and dominate the city as the biggest oil supplier!

    2025IndieSimulation13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Star Ores Inc. at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Star Ores Inc. on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Star Ores Inc..

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~72% under Star Ores Inc. on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Ores Inc..

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Star Ores Inc. on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Star Ores Inc..

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Star Ores Inc. on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Ores Inc..

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Star Ores Inc. on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Star Ores Inc..

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~72% under Star Ores Inc. on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Star Ores Inc..

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~56% under Star Ores Inc. on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Star Ores Inc..

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Kerbal Space Program

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Star Ores Inc. on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Ores Inc..

    In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

    2015IndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Star Ores Inc..

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Star Ores Inc..

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Ores Inc..

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Star Ores Inc..

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Ores Inc..

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Star Ores Inc..

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Star Ores Inc..

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Star Ores Inc.

Is Star Ores Inc. verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Star Ores Inc. is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Star Ores Inc. cost?
Star Ores Inc. is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Star Ores Inc.?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Star Ores Inc. are Industronaut, Infinite Space: Mining, Keep Digging.
Who developed Star Ores Inc.?
Star Ores Inc. was developed by BlackBeak Games and published by Three River Games (3RG).

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 Ores Inc..

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