Games like Caretaker Retribution
If Caretaker Retribution is your kind of game, the closest matches are Expedition Astra, End Space and Alliance Peacefighter — 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 Caretaker Retribution: The stars are going out. A team is sent to find out why. They discover the cause and try to stop it. They don’t make it out alive. Caretaker Retribution is a 6DOF shooter for PC and Mac that also works on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

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Steam players who put hours into Caretaker Retribution 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.
Expedition Astra
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Top pick for Caretaker Retribution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Caretaker Retribution.
Old machines guard silent asteroid sites across the outer solar system. Pilot a 6DoF spacecraft, fight around the rock, dock with old vessels, and touch the asteroid to extract rare materials.
End Space
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Second-strongest match for Caretaker Retribution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Caretaker Retribution.
Jump in your Minos Starfighter and blast your enemies into space dust in virtual reality. Maintain law and order at the mysterious and beautiful edge of inhabited space as you complete increasingly difficult contracts for the United Trade Consortium.
Alliance Peacefighter
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Third-strongest match for Caretaker Retribution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Caretaker Retribution.
A linear, story-driven space sim in the style of 90s classics like X-Wing and Wing Commander. As a newly qualified Alliance pilot, you find yourself caught up in a plot to break the fragile peace between two galactic superpowers.
Overload
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Ranked #4 for Caretaker Retribution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Caretaker Retribution.
A new six-degree-of-freedom shooter with intuitive controls, amazing lighting and graphics. From the creators of Descent, Overload is the best zero-gravity robot-blasting combat ever.
Vox Machinae
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Ranked #5 for Caretaker Retribution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Caretaker Retribution.
Strap yourself into the cockpit of a robot seven times taller than a Tyrannosaurus Rex and prepare to do battle in Vox Machinae: the ultimate giant robot combat action-simulator for both VR and standard screens.
Buccaneers!
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Ranked #6 for Caretaker Retribution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Caretaker Retribution.
Become a fearless captain in Buccaneers!, a classic pirate RPG. Join a band of pirates or a naval power and fight for supremacy in the Caribbean. Build and customise your fleet to take on any foe and rewrite history!
EVERSPACE™
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Ranked #7 for Caretaker Retribution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Caretaker Retribution.
EVERSPACE™ combines fast-paced combat with roguelike elements, great visuals and a captivating story. It takes you on a challenging journey through an ever-changing, beautifully crafted universe full of surprises. Shoot, craft and loot your way to victory while the odds are stacked against you.
Sublevel Zero Redux
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Ranked #8 for Caretaker Retribution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Caretaker Retribution.
Sublevel Zero Redux is a roguelite six-degree-of-freedom shooter in a universe where reality is falling apart. Use your zero-g gunship to fight through a vast underground facility, looting advanced weapons to destroy hordes of deadly enemies.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Caretaker Retribution.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Caretaker Retribution.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
SCP: Secret Laboratory
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Caretaker Retribution.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
Splitgate
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Caretaker Retribution.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
Aimlabs
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Caretaker Retribution.
Aimlabs is the aim trainer of choice for over 45 Million players, from beginners to esports pros. Our unique aim analysis optimizes your gameplay, targets your weaknesses & builds key skills for any FPS game! Time to warm up with our unlimited scenarios & rank up in-game!
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Caretaker Retribution.
Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.
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More from Xiotex Studios Ltd
Other recommendable Steam games by Xiotex Studios Ltd, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Blast Em!
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Another title from Xiotex Studios Ltd, the studio behind Caretaker Retribution. Shares Action and Indie with Caretaker Retribution.
Protect the universe from the evil Alien robots terror-bent on eliminating the Earth and all of Humanity! Take control of the ship and blast the hell out of anything that moves and if it doesn’t move – blast it anyway to be sure.
Containment Protocol
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Another title from Xiotex Studios Ltd, the studio behind Caretaker Retribution. Shares Action and Indie with Caretaker Retribution.
A top-secret military research facility has gone dark. Their last communication only had two words in it: “Containment Protocol” Your task is to infiltrate the facility using a prototype remote control drone and work out what has happened to the facility and more importantly - what has happened to the weapon.
Caretaker Sacrifice
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Another title from Xiotex Studios Ltd, the studio behind Caretaker Retribution. Shares Action and Indie with Caretaker Retribution.
An epic sci-fi 6DOF adventure, puzzle and shooter featuring the voice of David Hewlett (Stargate). At the end of time, struggle through a hostile alien machine to solve the ultimate mystery and fulfil your final mission.
Promethium
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Another title from Xiotex Studios Ltd, the studio behind Caretaker Retribution. Shares Action and Indie with Caretaker Retribution.
Inspired by classic Commodore 64 and arcade games, Promethium is a hard-as-nails retro inspired side-scrolling shoot-em-up that takes place over numerous levels that get harder and harder. If you’re after a nice calm casual game this isn’t it!
The Alpha Device
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Another title from Xiotex Studios Ltd, the studio behind Caretaker Retribution. Shares Action and Indie with Caretaker Retribution.
Beyond space, beyond reason... beyond humanity. Discover a gripping tale of a dystopian future narrated by David Hewlett, star of the Academy Award-winning The Shape Of Water.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Alliance Peacefighter
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Caretaker Retribution.
A linear, story-driven space sim in the style of 90s classics like X-Wing and Wing Commander. As a newly qualified Alliance pilot, you find yourself caught up in a plot to break the fragile peace between two galactic superpowers.
Vox Machinae
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Caretaker Retribution.
Strap yourself into the cockpit of a robot seven times taller than a Tyrannosaurus Rex and prepare to do battle in Vox Machinae: the ultimate giant robot combat action-simulator for both VR and standard screens.
Buccaneers!
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Caretaker Retribution.
Become a fearless captain in Buccaneers!, a classic pirate RPG. Join a band of pirates or a naval power and fight for supremacy in the Caribbean. Build and customise your fleet to take on any foe and rewrite history!
Frequently asked about Caretaker Retribution
- What games are most similar to Caretaker Retribution?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Caretaker Retribution are Expedition Astra, End Space, Alliance Peacefighter.
- Who developed Caretaker Retribution?
- Caretaker Retribution was developed by Xiotex Studios Ltd.
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