Games like Interstellar Rift
If Interstellar Rift is your kind of game, the closest matches are Empyrion - Galactic Survival, Avorion and Stellar Shipyard — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and immersive. 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 Interstellar Rift: Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
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Empyrion - Galactic Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Interstellar Rift.
Top pick for Interstellar Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Interstellar Rift.
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Avorion
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Interstellar Rift.
Second-strongest match for Interstellar Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Interstellar Rift.
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Stellar Shipyard
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Interstellar Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Interstellar Rift.
Stellar Shipyard is a space colony sandbox where you design modular ships and stations, and automate resource production using drones and workers. Let the automated systems fly even the most improvised designs. Face rival factions and threats solo, or alongside friends as allies or rivals.
Asteroid Rodeo
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Interstellar Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Interstellar Rift.
Asteroids are worth trillions. They're also spinning at 200 meters per second. You are a Wrangler—harpoon tumbling rocks, wrestle them to a dead stop with your custom-built ship, and mine them for credits. The pay is good. The survival rate is a conversation people avoid.
Droneboi: Conquest
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Interstellar Rift.
Ranked #5 for Interstellar Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Interstellar Rift.
Build, fly, and battle in Droneboi: Conquest - the ultimate space sandbox game! Explore Conquest, engage in combat, and upgrade your ship. Start your space journey today!
MineEngineer
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Interstellar Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Interstellar Rift.
Mine. Build. Survive. Engineer your way through the cosmos in this 2D space engineering sandbox!
Starship EVO
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Interstellar Rift.
Ranked #7 for Interstellar Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Interstellar Rift.
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
Osiris: New Dawn
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Interstellar Rift.
Ranked #8 for Interstellar Rift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Interstellar Rift.
Osiris: New Dawn is an unforgiving near future space survival game with a cinematic feel and elements of horror. Play as a Mission Specialist in single or multiplayer to build your planetary base, pilotable vehicles, and controllable drones as you explore a dangerous solar system far from Earth.
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Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Interstellar Rift.
Reviewers of Interstellar Rift cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Interstellar Rift.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Starbase
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Interstellar Rift.
Reviewers of Interstellar Rift cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Simulation with Interstellar Rift.
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Interstellar Rift.
Reviewers of Interstellar Rift cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Interstellar Rift.
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Stormworm+
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Interstellar Rift cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Interstellar Rift.
Stormworm+ is a Fast-Paced Reflex-Driven Arcade Game backed with colorful visuals and an original soundtrack! Inspired by the arcade games of old, collect, grow and aim for the top spot on the leaderboards!
Stormworks: Build and Rescue
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Interstellar Rift.
Reviewers of Interstellar Rift cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Interstellar Rift.
Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Interstellar Rift at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Interstellar Rift on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Interstellar Rift.
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 ~50% under Interstellar Rift on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Interstellar Rift.
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 ~63% under Interstellar Rift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Interstellar Rift.
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 ~75% under Interstellar Rift on Steam right now. Shares Action with Interstellar Rift.
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 ~50% under Interstellar Rift on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Interstellar Rift.
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 ~75% under Interstellar Rift on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Interstellar Rift.
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 ~50% under Interstellar Rift on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Interstellar Rift.
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 ~50% under Interstellar Rift on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Interstellar Rift.
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 Interstellar Rift.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Interstellar Rift.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Interstellar Rift.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Interstellar Rift.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Interstellar Rift.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Interstellar Rift.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Interstellar Rift.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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!
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Frequently asked about Interstellar Rift
- Does Interstellar Rift work on Steam Deck?
- Interstellar Rift is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Interstellar Rift cost?
- Interstellar Rift is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Interstellar Rift have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Interstellar Rift supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Interstellar Rift?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Interstellar Rift are Empyrion - Galactic Survival, Avorion, Stellar Shipyard.
- Who developed Interstellar Rift?
- Interstellar Rift was developed by Split Polygon and published by Iceberg Interactive.
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