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Games like Shooting Stars!

If Shooting Stars! is your kind of game, the closest matches are Unknown Hero, The Battle of Aurinoxia and Space Drift Squad — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its comedic, funny and lighthearted. 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.

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About Shooting Stars!: This game is the answer to one of the most important questions in life: “I can haz lazer kitty?“ Yes you can!

2016ActionIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableMetacritic 59Windows · macOS · Linuxby Bloodirony
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Celebrity parodies and memes everywherePower ups drastically swing difficultyReferences to pop culture galoreComedicFunnyLighthearted

Players who liked Shooting Stars! also play

Steam players who put hours into Shooting Stars! 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.

  1. Unknown Hero

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Shooting Stars! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.

    Brace yourself for an intense bullet hell experience! Fight your way through challenging levels, defeat bosses, upgrade your weapon and get the highest score!

    2025ActionIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. The Battle of Aurinoxia

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Shooting Stars! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.

    A retro space shoot 'em up with pixel art graphics, unique enemies, tough angry bosses, and a killer soundtrack. You are among the first pilots to arrive in the system to mount the counteroffensive against the aggressors. Get out there and show these aliens the price for messing with The Alliance!

    2026ActionIndie3.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Space Drift Squad

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Shooting Stars! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.

    Call your friends and lead your squad through the outer space and protect your planet from asteroids and alien ships on this local shoot'em up. Shoot, evolve e explode these space enemies.

    2018ActionIndie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. WDF

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Shooting Stars! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.

    ‘WDF’, is a horizontal shmup game with a Boss-rush style in that the difficulty will increase slightly after the player clears all stages and continues to the next loop. Each loop will be different from the other. Also, it has a main campaign mode with a longer stage and weapon upgrades.

    2025ActionIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Super Rebellion

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Shooting Stars! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.

    The humanity succumbed against the power of a aliens intergalactic empire, but managed to organize and establish a resistance army. Join the rebellious seekers of peace and help them defeat the evil that haunts the Earth.

    2019ActionIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Space Dragons

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Shooting Stars! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.

    Choose your spaceship and defeat the alien threat that comes from the Moon. Blast your way crushing, ripping apart and exploding hostile aliens that are taking control of powerful weapons and military technology from Earth. Find the entity that controls the threat and make it explode into blood.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Space War: Infinity

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Shooting Stars! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.

    Vertical semi-procedural shmup with upgrades, real-time enemy waves, and infinite replayability. Level up your ship, unlock 20+ weapons, defeat 5 bosses, and survive endless bullet-hell combat.

    2019ActionIndieCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Overdriven Reloaded

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Shooting Stars! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.

    Shoot' Em Up, Vertical Fast & Fun !The Overdriven Ship is back :More better, more intense, and more beautiful !

    2016ActionIndie7.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shooting Stars! at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Shooting Stars! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Shooting Stars! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shooting Stars!.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Shooting Stars! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shooting Stars!.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Shooting Stars! on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shooting Stars!.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Shooting Stars! on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shooting Stars!.

    You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.

    2009Action2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Shooting Stars! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shooting Stars!.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Shooting Stars! on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shooting Stars!.

    Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.

    2009Action2.49 USDSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Shooting Stars! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shooting Stars!.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Disfigure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.

    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!

    2023ActionIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.

    Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).

    2016ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Meteor 60 Seconds!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.

    Meteor 60 seconds! is a simple, fun, comic-like action game that simulates your life if there were a meteor heading towards Earth and you had 60 seconds to live. Do anything you want to do with your last 60 seconds, even if it's illegal! What about planting an apple tree?

    2018ActionIndieSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shooting Stars!.

    Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Shooting Stars!

Does Shooting Stars! run on Steam Deck?
Shooting Stars! 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 Shooting Stars! cost?
Shooting Stars! is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Shooting Stars!?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shooting Stars! are Unknown Hero, The Battle of Aurinoxia, Space Drift Squad.
Who developed Shooting Stars!?
Shooting Stars! was developed by Bloodirony and published by Daedalic Entertainment.

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 Shooting Stars!.

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