Games like When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears
If When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears is your kind of game, the closest matches are Solo Defender, Quantum Void and Shin Sophstar — 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 When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears: When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears is a story-rich, retro space shooter inspired by DOS-era space games. Blast your way through fast-paced arcade combat, build out modular, upgradable ships, and explore a galaxy torn by war.
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Solo Defender
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Top pick for When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears.
Solo Defender is a fast-paced vertical space shooter where you battle waves of enemies, unlock upgrades with Gems, and face epic bosses—including a drone-spawning Mothership. One life, multiple planets, and a secret level await. No ads—just pure arcade action.
Quantum Void
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Second-strongest match for When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears.
Lost in an unexplored star system after a dimensional anomaly dispersed your fleet, you start to pick up signals scattered throughout the system. Explore the wrecks of the corporate fleet, discover the secrets of the anomaly, and try to get the good ending.
Shin Sophstar
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Third-strongest match for When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears.
Shin Sophstar is an electrifying remix built for speed and scoring. With 30 ship variants, mid-run ship switching, and an aggressive, deeply layered scoring system, it delivers a faster, sharper arcade experience for all skill levels.
Starlight Squad
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Ranked #4 for When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears.
Lead an elite squad of heroines in this high-energy vertical shmup! Blast through enemy waves, dodge deadly patterns, and take down epic bosses as you fight to free the galaxy from the grip of the Merlian Empire.
Iron Skies
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Ranked #5 for When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears.
Retro style, propeller plane centred shoot 'em up inspired by the arcade classics of a fondly remembered bygone era.
Phrenetic Shooting Reunion
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Ranked #6 for When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears.
[CONTENTS] A playable shooting game "PHRENETIC SHOOTING REUNION" + All future updates/bug fixes. Phrenetic Shooting is a retro tasted shooting game. This game provides an exciting experience for retro 2D shooting game funs.
Starpath
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Ranked #7 for When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears.
Build your starship alone or with friends and explore a seamless universe. Plot a course, burn your thrusters, and chill out in your retro tech ship while you play games and drift through the dangerous vacuum of space. Approach orbit around distant worlds to discover whether we are truly alone.
Neon Armada - Solar Storm
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Ranked #8 for When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears.
A top-down arena roguelite you can learn in one wave and spend a hundred hours mastering. Waves close in from every edge; the shop between them decides what you become. 32 ships, 28 weapons, 115 mods to combine — then endless mode, where the caps come off.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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- What games are most similar to When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears are Solo Defender, Quantum Void, Shin Sophstar.
- Who developed When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears?
- When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears was developed by None is Enough.
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