Games like Derelict Star
If Derelict Star is your kind of game, the closest matches are InOut, XGA SPECIAL EDITION and Diggy Diggy Mole — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging 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.
Get personalized picks →About Derelict Star: A precise momentum-based platformer that emphasizes exploration and navigation puzzles. Run and jump your way through a wide variety of obstacles and challenges as you explore an abandoned derelict freighter. Be careful: getting in is often easier than getting out!
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Steam players who put hours into Derelict Star 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.
InOut
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Top pick for Derelict Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Derelict Star.
A minimalist puzzle platformer where each level is more than they seem. Change your perspective on levels to discover new areas. Explore the world to unearth its hidden secrets.
XGA SPECIAL EDITION
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Derelict Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Derelict Star.
Survive the nightmare of XGA! Trapped in the rotting corpse of a space station, you must explore, fight and hide in this intense Horror-Metroidvania! But remember, XGA is hunting you....
Diggy Diggy Mole
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Derelict Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Derelict Star.
In this metroidvania platformer originally made for NES, play as mole digging your way with great agility through deep caverns, in search of a lost dwarven treasure to repay your debts.
Trash Quest
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Derelict Star.
Ranked #4 for Derelict Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Derelict Star.
Trash Quest is a compact metroidvania with a single spawn point, run and gun action and tight platforming. Navigate an interwoven maze of rooms through this space station, destroying robots, collecting power ups and unlocking shortcuts.
Quarion
WHY THIS
Shares checkpoint system, precision platforming, indie and an atmospheric mood with Derelict Star.
Ranked #5 for Derelict Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Derelict Star.
A short 2D pixel-style metroidvania where you explore, fight bosses, aquire items and abilities and find secrets. Inspired by games such as You Have to Win the Game and VVVVVV.
PSYCRON
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Derelict Star.
Ranked #6 for Derelict Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Derelict Star.
A fast-paced 2D handcrafted metroidvania with strange sci-fi environments. Something is roaming the halls, watching your every move.
Leap Year
WHY THIS
Shares backtracking, precision platforming and atmospheric with Derelict Star.
Ranked #7 for Derelict Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Derelict Star.
Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.
1 Screen Platformer
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Derelict Star.
Ranked #8 for Derelict Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Derelict Star.
This is a SHORT, 2D PLATFORMER with TIGHT CONTROLS about exploring a single level to get past a bunch of TRAPS. There is an EASY mode and a HARD mode depending on your skill level.
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VVVVVV
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Derelict Star.
Reviewers of Derelict Star cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Derelict Star.
VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?
Rain World
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Derelict Star.
Reviewers of Derelict Star cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Derelict Star.
You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.
Sylvio
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Derelict Star.
Reviewers of Derelict Star cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Derelict Star.
Sylvio is a psychological horror game set in a tranquil, disturbing atmosphere. Help ghost recorder Juliette Waters face an evil curse and a wicked family cult with her microphone and the voices of the dead.
Super Meat Boy Forever
WHY THIS
Shares a punishing mood with Derelict Star.
Reviewers of Derelict Star cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Derelict Star.
Super Meat Boy is back! This time around Meat Boy is always running, literally it's an auto-runner. You will jump, dive, slide and punch your way through brutal levels and mean boss fights. We designed 5,000+ levels so you can play the game over and over without seeing the same level twice.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Derelict Star at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Derelict Star on Steam right now. Shares Action with Derelict Star.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Derelict Star on Steam right now. Shares Action with Derelict Star.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Derelict Star on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Derelict Star.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Derelict Star on Steam right now. Shares Action with Derelict Star.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Derelict Star on Steam right now. Shares Action with Derelict Star.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Derelict Star on Steam right now. Shares Action with Derelict Star.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Derelict Star on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Derelict Star.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Derelict Star on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Derelict Star.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Derelict Star.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Derelict Star.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Derelict Star.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Derelict Star.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Derelict Star.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Derelict Star.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Derelict Star.
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Frequently asked about Derelict Star
- How much does Derelict Star cost?
- Derelict Star is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Derelict Star?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Derelict Star are InOut, XGA SPECIAL EDITION, Diggy Diggy Mole.
- Who developed Derelict Star?
- Derelict Star was developed by gate and published by Luminous Tree Games.
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