Games like Alpha Star
If Alpha Star is your kind of game, the closest matches are Seven Suns of Orion, Galactagon and Into The Void — 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 Alpha Star: "Survive the crushing gravity and conquer the void! Alpha Star is a fast-paced 2D space shooter where you must navigate through evolving bullet hells and dynamic black holes. Upgrade your ship, survive 10 intense mission phases, and reach the heart of the Singularity."
Players who liked Alpha Star also play
Steam players who put hours into Alpha Star 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.
Seven Suns of Orion
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Top pick for Alpha Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alpha Star.
A fast paced bullet heaven, control your Sci-fi spaceships with semi-newtonian physics. Last 7 minutes against the drone armada until their boss arrives and fight your way to freedom! Use planetary gravity and other hazards to dodge superior numbers. Collect and combine weapons for maximum firepower
Galactagon
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Alpha Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alpha Star.
Battle through endless cosmic hordes in a galaxy where your choices shape each run. Upgrade and collect a huge variety of weapons and upgrades to create unique builds. Customize the arena itself by adding new areas to it, each new area bringing it's own dangers and rewards.
ActionSteam ↗Into The Void
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Alpha Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alpha Star.
A wormhole has opened up letting aliens terrorize your city. Pilot your spacecraft and destroy the aliens using flamethrowers, missiles, gatling guns, shockwaves, and more!
A-Spec First Assault
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Ranked #4 for Alpha Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alpha Star.
Fly corvette-class warships. Engage in combat operations against fighters, frigates, cruisers, and more dangerous foes. Choose the ships, weapons, and improvement modules, your group will deploy with. Use tactical command decisions to overcome dangerous encounters with unrelenting enemies.
VOIDRAVE
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Alpha Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alpha Star.
A bullet hell shmup with a secret. 100 waves, 20 bosses, and the slow realization that the sector you're purging isn't a sector. You are not crossing the void. You are inside it.
Nebula Live: Galactic trials
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Alpha Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alpha Star.
Nebula Live is a 2D side-scrolling space shooter set in a galactic TV show where the audience controls the chaos. Fight through 13 levels as viewers vote for unpredictable events, send power-up drops, and influence your chances of survival before unlocking Endless Mode.
PolyDogfight
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Alpha Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alpha Star.
Prepare to Fly, Dodge, Shoot, and Destroy in PolyDogfight. Unlock all the planes and maps to find your style. Obliterate waves of planes in an open-air arena as quickly as possible to get the high score and top the global leaderboard!
Void Wars
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Ranked #8 for Alpha Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alpha Star.
Dodge, shoot and free the galaxy of the evil space mega corp. Use a variety of different weapons and spaceships, each with different playstyles to overcome many challenging levels.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alpha Star.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Alpha Star.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Alpha Star.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Alpha Star.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Alpha Star.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Alpha Star.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about Alpha Star
- What games are most similar to Alpha Star?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Alpha Star are Seven Suns of Orion, Galactagon, Into The Void.
- Who developed Alpha Star?
- Alpha Star was developed by Minands.
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 Alpha Star.
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