Games like Hired Stars
If Hired Stars is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deep Space Outpost, Nebuchadnezzar and Ostranauts — 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 Hired Stars: Lead a modular mercenary force in a sci-fi strategy sandbox. Plan your moves on a turn-based star map, then command your fleet in tactical, real-time isometric RTS battles. Plunder trade routes, hunt pirates, follow the story, upgrade modular ships, and level up captains to build the ultimate fleet.
Players who liked Hired Stars also play
Steam players who put hours into Hired 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.
Deep Space Outpost
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Top pick for Hired Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hired Stars.
Deep Space Outpost is a space station building & survival game, involving resource and base management. Build your space station tile by tile, mine asteroids, refine materials and keep your station operational.
Nebuchadnezzar
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Second-strongest match for Hired Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hired Stars.
Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.
Ostranauts
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Third-strongest match for Hired Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hired Stars.
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
Rank: Warmaster
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Ranked #4 for Hired Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hired Stars.
Stranded on Mars with next to nothing, build a city, assemble a fleet, and expand your empire to survive a hostile solar system in this new take that combines elements of space combat and RTS inspired by the classics.
Star Traders: Frontiers
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Ranked #5 for Hired Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Hired Stars.
You are the captain of a starship venturing through a massive open universe. Customize your crew and take command at the helm of your very own ship as you explore a galaxy torn apart by internal strife, alien threats, and political intrigue.
Solar Imperium
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Ranked #6 for Hired Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hired Stars.
Crash-land on an unknown world and build your settlement hex by hex across its entire globe. Then take it to the stars: a real-time grand strategy game where you zoom from one colony's roads out to a galaxy held by ancient powers that play by the same rules you do.
Starminer
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Ranked #7 for Hired Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hired Stars.
Design and build a massive interstellar fleet in this simulation sandbox. Strip space of its minerals for profit, but stay alert: your greed attracts the alien. Master deep base-building and deploy warships to protect your empire in immersive real-time space.
Warehouse Tycoon
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Ranked #8 for Hired Stars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hired Stars.
Warehouse Tycoon is a journey to Warehouse Legendary! Brave the business war. Today's dog in the water must be the crown in the city! With the company's destiny in your hands, every success drives you farther. Use your wisdom and guts to build a warehouse Empire!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hired Stars at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Hired Stars on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hired 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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Hired Stars on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hired Stars.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~50% under Hired Stars on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hired Stars.
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
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Priced ~50% under Hired Stars on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hired Stars.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Hired Stars on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hired Stars.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Lab
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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!
Electoral Carnage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Early Access with Hired Stars.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hired Stars.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Hired 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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hired 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.
DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hired Stars.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hired Stars.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
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Frequently asked about Hired Stars
- Does Hired Stars run on Steam Deck?
- Hired Stars 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 Hired Stars cost?
- Hired Stars is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hired Stars?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hired Stars are Deep Space Outpost, Nebuchadnezzar, Ostranauts.
- Who developed Hired Stars?
- Hired Stars was developed by Mark Kaps.
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 Hired Stars.
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