Games like Barus
If Barus is your kind of game, the closest matches are Renegade Run, Critical Point and Management In Space — 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.
Renegade Run
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Top pick for Barus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Barus.
Renegade Run is a rogue-lite 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.
Critical Point
WHY THIS
Second-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.
Management In Space
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match 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
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Ranked #5 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
Astromino
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Ranked #6 for Barus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Barus.
A roguelite battle against cosmic evils - drop customized polyominoes, collect relics, and execute powerful combos to defeat your enemies!
Contested Space
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Ranked #7 for Barus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Barus.
Build your own fleet in this space roguelike deckbuilder. Pick your faction, draft cards mid-combat from a rotating market, and fight your way through hostile sectors one run at a time. Can you carve a path to victory through Contested Space?
Aestheta
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Ranked #8 for Barus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Barus.
A roguelike royalelike about warriors from across space and time, fighting to claim a wish from the Star of Aestheta. Strategize your tactics, enhance your troops, and outwit your opponents to rise to the top!
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?
Steam Engine Simulator
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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!
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Barus.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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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 Renegade Run, Critical Point, Management In Space.
- 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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