Games like Captain Galactic
If Captain Galactic is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gates of Zendocon, Code Arcturus and Micro Games: Volume 1 — 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 Captain Galactic: Captain Galactic is a colorful retro sci-fi platformer where you ride a hoverboard through strange alien worlds, collect crystals, unlock abilities and items, dodge deadly traps, and blast enemies with your phaser.
Players who liked Captain Galactic also play
Steam players who put hours into Captain Galactic 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.
Gates of Zendocon
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Top pick for Captain Galactic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Captain Galactic.
In this classic side-scrolling shoot-em-up, originally published in 1989 for the Atari Lynx handheld console, take on the role of a starship pilot trapped in a web of 51 interconnected hostile universes by the evil spider Zendocon.
Code Arcturus
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Second-strongest match for Captain Galactic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Captain Galactic.
Code Arcturus is a retro inspired arcade-style action platformer, with aliens, robots, spikes, explosions, and lots of coins. Blast your way through levels, compete for the fastest times on the leaderboards in Speedrun mode, or put your skills to the ultimate test in Nerfed mode
Micro Games: Volume 1
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Third-strongest match for Captain Galactic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Captain Galactic.
Retro 2D collection of 4 micro games
Crazy Invader ShootEm Down
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Ranked #4 for Captain Galactic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Captain Galactic.
Enjoy fast paced action in this retro inspired arcade ShootEm Up Style game
Womb
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Ranked #5 for Captain Galactic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Captain Galactic.
During a route next to Prasinos, a colonized little planet, Helena received an order to investigate an S.O.S. sign streamed by the mothership Z9. When landing on site, she discovers that the situation was much worse than she thought.
Spectre Of Eternity
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Ranked #6 for Captain Galactic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Captain Galactic.
An action bullet hell. Dodge enemies attacks and collect upgrades to make it to the end of each level.
CrushBorgs
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Ranked #7 for Captain Galactic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Captain Galactic.
"Run and Gun" oldschool single-player platformer with NES aesthetics, including an authentic 8-bit chiptune.
Space Dragons
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Ranked #8 for Captain Galactic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Captain Galactic.
Choose your spaceship and defeat the alien threat that comes from the Moon. Blast your way crushing, ripping apart and exploding hostile aliens that are taking control of powerful weapons and military technology from Earth. Find the entity that controls the threat and make it explode into blood.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Captain Galactic at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~61% under Captain Galactic on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Captain Galactic.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~41% under Captain Galactic on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Captain Galactic.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~61% under Captain Galactic on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Captain Galactic.
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.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~61% under Captain Galactic on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Captain Galactic.
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
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Priced ~61% under Captain Galactic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Captain Galactic.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~61% under Captain Galactic on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Captain Galactic.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
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Priced ~61% under Captain Galactic on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Captain Galactic.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 with Captain Galactic.
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.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Captain Galactic.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Captain Galactic.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Captain Galactic.
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 Captain Galactic.
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 Casual with Captain Galactic.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Captain Galactic.
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!
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Frequently asked about Captain Galactic
- How much does Captain Galactic cost?
- Captain Galactic is listed on Steam at 2.54 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Captain Galactic?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Captain Galactic are Gates of Zendocon, Code Arcturus, Micro Games: Volume 1.
- Who developed Captain Galactic?
- Captain Galactic was developed by whoppagamer.
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 Captain Galactic.
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