Games like When stars rest
If When stars rest is your kind of game, the closest matches are Protect the Pit, Essence Harvest and Harpooner — 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 stars rest: A cozy third-person incremental shooter about awakening sleeping stars. Charge stars with your shots to collect energy, upgrade your weapons, unlock powerful automation, and awaken every star across the island.
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Steam players who put hours into When stars rest 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.
Protect the Pit
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Top pick for When stars rest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with When stars rest.
Attack with your cursor, build towers and walls to defend your pit! An incremental clicker that combines tower defense, maze building, and large upgrade trees. Earn money, upgrade your defenses, and build winding mazes to stop the hordes of the Dark Forest.
Essence Harvest
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Second-strongest match for When stars rest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with When stars rest.
A unique combination of a classical incremental game with a more action based bullet-heaven game. Featuring a huge upgrade tree with around 200 permanent upgrades, plus relics, boons and more. Wishlist now and see how strong you can get.
Harpooner
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Third-strongest match for When stars rest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with When stars rest.
Harpooner is an action-driven incremental fishing game where you hunt bizarre alien fish from a meteor crash. Grab your gear, grow stronger with every dive, and take down massive bosses to save Earth's ecosystem!
Meow My Crop!
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Ranked #4 for When stars rest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with When stars rest.
Meow My Crop! is a cozy farming mini-game where every keystroke and click makes your crops grow. Team up or sneak around to steal your friends’ fruits, then trade your hard-earned harvest for cute decorations to style your own little plot.
SuperReap
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Ranked #5 for When stars rest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with When stars rest.
Super Reap is a cozy active incremental harvesting game where you swing your scythe through wildly overgrown crops, sell resources for coins, unlock talents, skill cards, gear, and new harvesting methods, and transform a rundown farm into an efficient reaping paradise.
Bills Must Be Paid
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Ranked #6 for When stars rest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with When stars rest.
You're broke, smash piggy banks, bills must be paid. A short active incremental game. Get money, upgrade, and get debt free!
Idle Archery
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Ranked #7 for When stars rest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with When stars rest.
In Idle Archery, destroy targets to earn money, hire archers and stack upgrades to multiply your income.
Rock Diver
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Ranked #8 for When stars rest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with When stars rest.
Land, mine, fill your pack, and head back to your ship. Become a Rock Diver in this incremental adventure as you travel across alien worlds, extract valuable minerals, upgrade your gear, and greet the locals along the way.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with When stars rest.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 When stars rest.
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 When stars rest.
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 Indie with When stars rest.
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.
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 When stars rest.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with When stars rest.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about When stars rest
- What games are most similar to When stars rest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside When stars rest are Protect the Pit, Essence Harvest, Harpooner.
- Who developed When stars rest?
- When stars rest was developed by FunTap Games.
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