Games like Starward Rogue
If Starward Rogue is your kind of game, the closest matches are M.O.O.D.S., Mechanophagia and Earl vs. the Mutants — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and intense. 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 Starward Rogue: Starward Rogue is a bullet hell twin-stick shooter. Blast your way through the Megalith, a rogue-lite labyrinth lodged in the side of a star. Customize your mech with a huge variety of weapons, perks, and upgrades. Steel yourself for the dangers that lurk in the depths of the dungeon.
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M.O.O.D.S.
WHY THIS
Top pick for Starward Rogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Grab a gun and take down hostile robots corrupted by synthetic emotions! Combine weapon modifications and wreak havoc in this roguelite shooter. Let your emotions shape combat and alter boss fights! Fight alone or join up with up to 4 players!
Mechanophagia
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Starward Rogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Starward Rogue.
Aim. Dodge. Survive. Battle through a sci-fi hell in this intense Twin-Stick Roguelite Shooter. Survive the endless swarm for 10 minutes, defeat the level boss, or die trying. Draft powerful synergies in every run and purchase permanent upgrades to outlast the extinction.
Earl vs. the Mutants
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Starward Rogue.
Third-strongest match for Starward Rogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Starward Rogue.
Save humanity in a mutant-ridden apocalypse! Dive headfirst into Earl vs. the Mutants, a high-octane top-down survival action-roguelite set in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse.
Uragun
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Starward Rogue.
Ranked #4 for Starward Rogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
You are a friendly-but-deadly Mech on a journey searching for your missing pilot in this action-packed roguelite shooter. Choose your missions and rewards, research skills, equip expansions, mod your weapons, install plugins, customize your looks and stylishly cut your way through hordes of evil AI.
Sharded World
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Starward Rogue.
Ranked #5 for Starward Rogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Sharded World is a reversed bullet hell, rogue-lite, ARPG game combining simple gameplay and great rpg progression. Each level has its own unique features and challenges. Upgradable characters, weapons and orbs. Challenges, daily quests, and leaderboards. Fight, get stronger and defeat the Lich!
Destropolis
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Starward Rogue.
Ranked #6 for Starward Rogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
Doomsday Hunters
WHY THIS
Shares bullet hell combat and an atmospheric mood with Starward Rogue.
Ranked #7 for Starward Rogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time! Roguelite twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future technologies collide. Defeat evil lord Dracula and save everyone!
ATOMINE
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Starward Rogue.
Ranked #8 for Starward Rogue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Atomine is a twin stick procedural shooter rogue-lite set in a virtual world with minimalist design, where the player recounts on the screen the real events of STUXNET, the first weapon ever created in the form of computer virus.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Starward Rogue
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The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Starward Rogue.
Reviewers of Starward Rogue cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
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SUPERHOT
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Starward Rogue.
Reviewers of Starward Rogue cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
SUPERHOT is the smash-hit FPS where time moves only when you move. No regenerating health bars. No conveniently placed ammo drops. It's you, alone, outnumbered and outgunned. Snatch weapons from fallen enemies to shoot, slice and dodge through a truly cinematic hurricane of slow-motion bullets.
Realm of the Mad God Exalt
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Starward Rogue.
Reviewers of Starward Rogue cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Embark on an exhilarating journey into the pixelated Realm of the Mad God! Join, an action-packed, free-to-play MMO bullet hell game. Discover a world with danger, challenges, and hidden treasures as you battle through waves of enemies. Team up with players and conquer dungeons to become a legend!
Hades
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Starward Rogue cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Starward Rogue at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Starward Rogue on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Starward Rogue.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Starward Rogue on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Starward Rogue on Steam right now. Shares Action with Starward Rogue.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Starward Rogue on Steam right now. Shares Action with Starward Rogue.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Starward Rogue on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Starward Rogue.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Starward Rogue on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Starward Rogue.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Starward Rogue on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Starward Rogue.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Starward Rogue on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
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?
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 Starward Rogue.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Starward Rogue.
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 Indie with Starward Rogue.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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 Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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More from Arcen Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Arcen Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Heart of the Machine
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Starward Rogue.
Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind Starward Rogue. Shares RPG with Starward Rogue.
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
AI War 2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Starward Rogue.
Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind Starward Rogue. Shares Indie with Starward Rogue.
The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.
AI War: Fleet Command
WHY THIS
Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind Starward Rogue. Shares Indie with Starward Rogue.
"You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remaining human settlements are held captive in orbiting bubbles, and the AIs have turned their...
The Last Federation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Starward Rogue.
Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind Starward Rogue. Shares Indie with Starward Rogue.
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.
Bionic Dues
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Starward Rogue.
Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind Starward Rogue. Shares Indie and RPG with Starward Rogue.
Bionic Dues is a tactical, turn-based roguelite with mech customization. Out-think wide-ranging tactical situations featuring robots with bad GPS, terrible aim, insecurity, a lack of focus, a tendency to backstab, and dozens of other maladies to exploit.
A Valley Without Wind
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Starward Rogue.
Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind Starward Rogue. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
You choose how to play, and the world of Environ adapts around you.
Skyward Collapse
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Starward Rogue.
Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind Starward Rogue. Shares Indie with Starward Rogue.
How do you balance -- and indeed encourage -- a war between factions without letting either side obliterate the other? How do you rule over gods, creatures, and men who refuse to obey you? How do you build a landscape of villages when bandits and mythology are conspiring to tear it down?
A Valley Without Wind 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Starward Rogue.
Another title from Arcen Games, the studio behind Starward Rogue. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
A modern take on the 16-bit era, A Valley Without Wind 2 blends a variety of mechanics across multiple genres, seamlessly bringing together the best qualities of old-school platform-shooters and turn-based strategy games.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Earl vs. the Mutants
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Starward Rogue.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with Starward Rogue.
Save humanity in a mutant-ridden apocalypse! Dive headfirst into Earl vs. the Mutants, a high-octane top-down survival action-roguelite set in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse.
Destropolis
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Starward Rogue.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
Doomsday Hunters
WHY THIS
Shares bullet hell combat and an atmospheric mood with Starward Rogue.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time! Roguelite twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future technologies collide. Defeat evil lord Dracula and save everyone!
Frequently asked about Starward Rogue
- Does Starward Rogue run on Steam Deck?
- Starward Rogue is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Starward Rogue cost?
- Starward Rogue is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Starward Rogue?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Starward Rogue are M.O.O.D.S., Mechanophagia, Earl vs. the Mutants.
- Who developed Starward Rogue?
- Starward Rogue was developed by Arcen Games.
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