Games like Space Fighter
If Space Fighter is your kind of game, the closest matches are Beltrunner, Cosmula and Raiders Rise — 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 Space Fighter: Experience the unique mix of modern fast-paced multiplayer action with intuitive twin-stick controls and a retro pixelart look. Battle against other pilots in quick PvP sessions of classic versus and space racing - or team up with friends in Co-op to defend against aliens and hunt difficult bosses.
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Steam players who put hours into Space Fighter 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.
Beltrunner
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Top pick for Space Fighter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Space Fighter.
Fly, dodge, salvage, repeat. Beltrunner is a sci-fi bullet-hell horde-survival roguelite: your guns fire themselves while you drift-dodge asteroids, hazards and pirate raiders. Draft 20+ weapons, fuse maxed ones into screen-clearing evolutions, and tear down multi-phase bosses solo or in co-op.
Cosmula
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Second-strongest match for Space Fighter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Space Fighter.
Engage in an intense space shooter that you can play in single-player or multiplayer with up to 6 players. Play a variety of different spaceships, each with their own unique stats, components, and playstyles!
Raiders Rise
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Third-strongest match for Space Fighter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Space Fighter.
Explore hostile planets, face endless hordes of devourers, collect crystals, and upgrade your equipment. Choose the hero that best suits your playstyle, cooperate with your allies to survive… or betray the other team at the perfect moment and claim victory.
Pulsewave
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Ranked #4 for Space Fighter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Space Fighter.
Rhythm-reactive track flyer. Fly neon highways carved from the music — grab orbs and dodge hazards locked to every beat, kick and drop. Climb global leaderboards, take the Daily Challenge, or load your OWN songs and ride tracks built from them. Pure neon, pure rhythm.
Neon Meltdown
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Ranked #5 for Space Fighter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Space Fighter.
Your own reactor is the thing trying to kill you. Every kill feeds the heat, and the coolant those kills drop is the only thing that vents it — lying exactly where the danger just was. A twin-stick score chase where diving into the crowd is the only way to survive it. Five modes, co-op up to four.
Retrobot: 2085
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Ranked #6 for Space Fighter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Space Fighter.
Retrobot: 2085 is a fast, frantic twin-stick arcade shooter with endless robot hordes, survivor rescues, high-score chasing, extra lives, and chaotic 4-player local multiplayer.
Cosmara
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Ranked #7 for Space Fighter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Space Fighter.
COSMARA is a unique blend between Tactical and Action gameplay. Create the perfect ship loadout for each mission and take to the void as you fight other player captains in PVP or take on the AI Armada in either solo or co-op.
ActionSteam ↗Strike Wings
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Ranked #8 for Space Fighter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Space Fighter.
A top-down modernized retro space combat epic. Choose from over fifty warships and be part of massive fleet actions with hundreds of ships on the field. Fly for Earth's church-state or the Martian forge that armed it. Play solo, in split-screen co-op, or in max 24-pilot online attrition battles.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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?
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 Fighter.
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 Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Fighter.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Fighter.
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.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Fighter.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Fighter.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Electoral Carnage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Fighter.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
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Frequently asked about Space Fighter
- Does Space Fighter have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Space Fighter supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Space Fighter?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Space Fighter are Beltrunner, Cosmula, Raiders Rise.
- Who developed Space Fighter?
- Space Fighter was developed by Sailboat Games.
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 Space Fighter.
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