Games like Starvester
If Starvester is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dwarf Eats Mountain, Industry Idle and Military Incremental Complex — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and cozy. 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 Starvester: A short incremental game about expanding a star-system wide factory to build giant megastructures in space. Deploy swarms of drones, mine resources, unlock upgrades and harvest the power of the stars!

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Dwarf Eats Mountain
WHY THIS
Shares idle progression and meta progression with Starvester.
Top pick for Starvester fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Starvester.
Dwarves hunger for gold, and no mountain shall stand in their way! Mine riches, unearth artifacts, and upgrade your dwarves to devour ever-bigger peaks in this whimsical incremental game.
Industry Idle
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Starvester.
Second-strongest match for Starvester fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Starvester.
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Military Incremental Complex
WHY THIS
Shares automation, idle progression, simulation and a chill mood with Starvester.
Third-strongest match for Starvester fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Starvester.
Make weapons, make money. An active incremental game where you amass as much money as you can by starting a Military Industrial Complex company. Produce multiple different weapons, research upgrades, manipulate the stock market, and lobby the government for favors.
Idle Colony
WHY THIS
Shares automation, idle progression, indie and a chill mood with Starvester.
Ranked #4 for Starvester fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Starvester.
A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.
Particul
WHY THIS
Shares idle automation, automation, simulation and a chill mood with Starvester.
Ranked #5 for Starvester fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Starvester.
Click to mine particles and watch your pile grow. Turn resources into profit, automate extraction, research new technologies and trade. Can you mine the rarest particle and ascend? There is just one way to find out.
Rusty's Retirement
WHY THIS
Shares idle automation, automation, simulation and an atmospheric mood with Starvester.
Ranked #6 for Starvester fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Starvester.
A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.
Moose Miners
WHY THIS
Shares idle automation, automation, indie and a chill mood with Starvester.
Ranked #7 for Starvester fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Starvester.
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
(the) Gnorp Apologue
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Starvester.
Ranked #8 for Starvester fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Starvester.
(the) Gnorp Apologue is the journey of the gnorps as you guide them towards their goal of delightfully excessive wealth accumulation.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Starvester at current Steam store prices.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Starvester on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Starvester.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Starvester on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Starvester.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~84% under Starvester on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Starvester.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Starvester on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Starvester.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Starvester on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Starvester.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~84% under Starvester on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Starvester.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~84% under Starvester on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Starvester.
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!
Superflight
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Starvester on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Starvester.
Superflight is an intense, easy to learn wingsuit game with an infinite number of beautiful procedurally generated maps. A great game to relax for half an hour and chase your latest highscore!
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.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Starvester.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Starvester.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Starvester.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Starvester.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Starvester.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Shares idle progression, meta progression, indie and a chill mood with Starvester.
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Starvester.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Starvester.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Frequently asked about Starvester
- How much does Starvester cost?
- Starvester is listed on Steam at 6.29 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Starvester?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Starvester are Dwarf Eats Mountain, Industry Idle, Military Incremental Complex.
- Who developed Starvester?
- Starvester was developed by Syphono4 and published by Future Friends Games, Syphono4.
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 Starvester.
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