Games like Space Pirate Trainer
If Space Pirate Trainer is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Lab, Raw Data and Arizona Sunshine® — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its addictive high score chasing, funny and immersive. 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 →Space Pirate Trainer is a VR wave shooter released in 2017 by I-Illusions, available for $14.99 USD. Set in space, it features wave-based shooting gameplay with weapon-swapping, defensive shields, power-ups, and high-score chasing mechanics. Reviewers highlight the retro feel and immersive qualities, with players describing it as both funny and intense. It offers short sessions designed for quick bursts of play, supporting solo-only gameplay at a normal difficulty level. The game holds a 95% positive rating from 2,257 Steam reviews. It is not currently supported on Steam Deck.
About Space Pirate Trainer: Space Pirate Trainer is the official trainer for wannabe space pirates in VR. Pick up your blasters, put on your sneakers, and dance your way into the Space Pirate Trainer hall of fame.
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The Lab
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Shares an immersive mood with Space Pirate Trainer.
Top pick for Space Pirate Trainer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
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!
Raw Data
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Space Pirate Trainer.
Second-strongest match for Space Pirate Trainer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
Built from the ground up for VR, Raw Data’s action gameplay, intuitive controls, challenging enemies, and sci-fi atmosphere will completely immerse you within the surreal world of Eden Corp. Go solo or team up and become the adrenaline-charged heroes of your own futuristic technothriller.
Arizona Sunshine®
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Shares an immersive mood with Space Pirate Trainer.
Third-strongest match for Space Pirate Trainer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.
Hover Junkers
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Shares an immersive mood with Space Pirate Trainer.
Ranked #4 for Space Pirate Trainer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
Engage in multiplayer VR gunfights that capture real gun play like no FPS you've played before. Pilot and fortify Hover Junkers as you physically walk, duck, dodge and aim in cross ship combat.
Fallout 4 VR
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Shares an immersive mood with Space Pirate Trainer.
Ranked #5 for Space Pirate Trainer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Fallout 4, the legendary post-apocalyptic adventure from Bethesda Game Studios and winner of more than 200 ‘Best Of’ awards, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year, comes in its entirety to VR.
Cosmic Trip
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Shares an immersive mood with Space Pirate Trainer.
Ranked #6 for Space Pirate Trainer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
Cosmic Trip is an award-winning real-time strategy VR game. Build a base, command a flying drone army, and attack/defend hostile enemies on strange alien planets.
Blasters of the Universe
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Shares a retro mood with Space Pirate Trainer.
Ranked #7 for Space Pirate Trainer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
Blasters of the Universe is the first of its kind, bringing the bullet hell genre into first person VR. Intense gameplay is heavily reliant on physical movement, requiring the player to duck, dodge, twist, turn, and maneuver their way through tons of enemies and hundreds of bullets.
SUPERHOT VR
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Shares an intense mood with Space Pirate Trainer.
Ranked #8 for Space Pirate Trainer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
Lose track of what’s real. Commit yourself, body and mind. Confront the evocative, elegantly brutal world of SUPERHOT VR. Enemies pouring into the room from all sides, dozens of bullets coursing through the air... Wait. Something seems different in here...
Reviewers mention these as similar to Space Pirate Trainer
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Blasters of the Universe
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Shares a retro mood with Space Pirate Trainer.
Reviewers of Space Pirate Trainer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
Blasters of the Universe is the first of its kind, bringing the bullet hell genre into first person VR. Intense gameplay is heavily reliant on physical movement, requiring the player to duck, dodge, twist, turn, and maneuver their way through tons of enemies and hundreds of bullets.
Into The Matrix
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Reviewers of Space Pirate Trainer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
"Into The Matrix" is a multiplayer horror game where you and your friends must explore, survive, and outsmart dangers . Many entities are after you, but the Overseer is the true threat. Can you escape its grasp?
Pinball Inside: A VR Arcade Game
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Reviewers of Space Pirate Trainer cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Experience the Simple Pinball in Virtual Reality. Play with a real-life pinball machine in a virtual space.Supported controllers are HTC Vive, Oculus Touch, Xbox controller and Keyboard.
SUPERHOT VR
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Shares an intense mood with Space Pirate Trainer.
Reviewers of Space Pirate Trainer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
Lose track of what’s real. Commit yourself, body and mind. Confront the evocative, elegantly brutal world of SUPERHOT VR. Enemies pouring into the room from all sides, dozens of bullets coursing through the air... Wait. Something seems different in here...
Space Invaders Extreme
WHY THIS
Shares power ups and a retro mood with Space Pirate Trainer.
Reviewers of Space Pirate Trainer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
The critically acclaimed update to the Space Invaders franchise has arrived to invade Steam with greatly improved graphics and audio! Packed with pulsing, vibrant visuals enhanced further by interactive sound. The invaders have evolved, the question is: can you keep up?
Pistol Whip
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Shares an immersive mood with Space Pirate Trainer.
Reviewers of Space Pirate Trainer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
Enter: the ultimate action hero. Pistol Whip is a physical action-rhythm game where film-inspired gunplay and blood-pumping beats collide. Blast, duck and dodge your way through fever dream Scenes, build unique rhythms in a ballet of bullets and claim glory on the leaderboards. Includes mod support!
Crisis VRigade
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Shares an intense mood with Space Pirate Trainer.
Reviewers of Space Pirate Trainer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
Crisis VRigade is a virtual reality action filled first person shooter that lets players take on the role of a SWAT trooper and deal with terrorist situations. Play solo or team with your friends with the coop multiplayer mode.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Space Pirate Trainer at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under Space Pirate Trainer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
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.
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Priced ~53% under Space Pirate Trainer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
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.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Space Pirate Trainer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~70% under Space Pirate Trainer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
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.
Noita
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Priced ~47% under Space Pirate Trainer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~93% under Space Pirate Trainer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~80% under Space Pirate Trainer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~67% under Space Pirate Trainer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Lab
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Space Pirate Trainer.
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!
Waves
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
Counter-Strike 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.
Team Fortress 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities. Constantly updated with new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats!
Warframe
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Pirate Trainer.
Awaken as an unstoppable warrior and battle alongside your friends in this story-driven free-to-play online action game
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Frequently asked about Space Pirate Trainer
- Does Space Pirate Trainer work on Steam Deck?
- Space Pirate Trainer is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Space Pirate Trainer cost?
- Space Pirate Trainer is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Space Pirate Trainer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Space Pirate Trainer are The Lab, Raw Data, Arizona Sunshine®.
- Who developed Space Pirate Trainer?
- Space Pirate Trainer was developed by I-Illusions.
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