Games like Dark Star
If Dark Star is your kind of game, the closest matches are Astro Protocol, From The Void and 2 Fights in 2 Tight Spaces — 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 Dark Star: Command your fleet of spacecraft in this rogue-lite strategy title. Plan out your orders with unlimited tactical pause, then watch as they're executed in real-time. Explore a procedural galaxy, meet strange new aliens, and avenge Earth!
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Steam players who put hours into Dark 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.
Astro Protocol
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Top pick for Dark Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dark Star.
Astro Protocol is a high-stakes, turn-based 4X space strategy game distilled into intense one-hour matches. Six factions, randomized maps, tech trees, and anomalies ensure every run is unique. Victories are earned against challenging opponents that play to win.
From The Void
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Second-strongest match for Dark Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Star.
Command a fleet of customizable spaceships, go through intense battles and create builds with unique synergies. Think your placements and upgrades as they will shape the fleet's fate and determines victory or defeat. Test your strategic skills in this rogue-like autobattler game.
2 Fights in 2 Tight Spaces
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Third-strongest match for Dark Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Dark Star.
Agent 11 is back. The iconic tactical deck-builder returns, with new tricks up its impeccably tailored sleeves… and this time it’s with friends. Improvise within the space, adapt your deck to the challenges ahead, and overcome a roster of new enemies in stylish, animated, fight sequences.
Stellar Hustler
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Ranked #4 for Dark Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Star.
A space trading roguelite. Buy low, sell high, dodge pirates, bribe customs, and pay off your debt to The Syndicate before time runs out.
Fire and Movement
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Ranked #5 for Dark Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Star.
Scout enemy positions, apply pressure from the front, and send another force around the flank. Combine tanks, infantry, reconnaissance units, and artillery support in a turn-based wargame where damage and losses carry throughout the operation.
As We Descend
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Ranked #6 for Dark Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Star.
The apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder with squad sculpting and deep tactics. Recruit the right units and outmaneuver titanic foes on dangerous expeditions. Build up allies and resources in the feudal Vault-City. Can you survive all the perils that await the last bastion of humanity?
Death Ring: Second Impact
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Ranked #7 for Dark Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Dark Star.
Death Ring: Second Impact is a turn-based Roguelite strategy game. As the commander of the "Griffin" squadron, you must lead your Mechas and Pilots to resist the threat of mutated monsters and approaching to the secrets hidden behind the Death Ring.
Conquest Tactics : Realm of Sin
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Ranked #8 for Dark Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Star.
Conquest Tactics: Realm of Sin is a dark-fantasy roguelite tactics game. Command your army and engage in turn-based battles on a hex-based board as you advance step by step to conquer a land shrouded in sin. Your choices carry weight: will you restore order… or allow eternal darkness to reign?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Star.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Star.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Star.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dark Star.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Star.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Star.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dark Star.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Frequently asked about Dark Star
- What games are most similar to Dark Star?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Star are Astro Protocol, From The Void, 2 Fights in 2 Tight Spaces.
- Who developed Dark Star?
- Dark Star was developed by WhySo Studios.
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 Dark Star.
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