Games like Barus
If Barus is your kind of game, the closest matches are Star Patrol Nova, Dicevaders and Critical Point — 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 Barus: Blast off in Barus, a unique roguelike where you battle your way back home from Earth. Earn Gems and power your 12 unique weapons by making poker hands. Use the shop to upgrade your Quarks and weapons to defeat bosses and escape the cosmos.
Players who liked Barus also play
Steam players who put hours into Barus 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.
Star Patrol Nova
WHY THIS
Top pick for Barus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Barus.
Star Patrol Nova is a sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder. Take control of a team of four Star Rangers with customisable skills, and a deck of cards you can modify between battles.
StrategySteam ↗Dicevaders
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Barus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Barus.
Dicevaders is a dice-based roguelike deckbuilder about leading the ultimate alien invasion. Set in the StarVaders universe, draft and manipulate the dice row, build an unstoppable army, and unleash adrenaline pumping combos through powerful synergies and strategic play.
Critical Point
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Barus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Barus.
Critical Point is a retro sci-fi casual strategy game. You have to make the particle count in reactor cells exceed 4, surpassing the critical point of fission to generate energy required for interstellar voyages.
Renegade Run
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Barus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Barus.
Renegade Run is an immersive deckbuilder that puts you in the pilot seat of an experimental starship. Discover anomalies, carve your path, and face powerful enemies as you battle your way back to Sector 0.
Management In Space
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Barus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Barus.
Management In Space is a gritty sci-fi strategy roguelite where you find yourself in debt. Build, mine, trade, date, and defend using stations across the galaxy, all while wars swells, aliens devastate sectors, and cults rip the galaxy apart & release demons upon the cosmos.
OMEGA SPACE
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Barus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Barus.
Ω-SPACE - The last dimension you can reach
Topdeck Automat
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Barus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Barus.
The roguelike auto-battler where your deck prints itself! Supply a brave worker droid with synergistic blueprints to defend the planet against hordes of alien invaders. Combine hundreds of cards with custom upgrades and infinitely stackable modules to discover broken builds.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Barus.
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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Barus.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Barus.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Barus.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Barus.
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 Indie with Barus.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Barus.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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Frequently asked about Barus
- What games are most similar to Barus?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Barus are Star Patrol Nova, Dicevaders, Critical Point.
- Who developed Barus?
- Barus was developed by ELEON.
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 Barus.
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