Games like Beyond the First Star
If Beyond the First Star is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lone Survivors, Lawnpocalypse and Chronoseum — 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 Beyond the First Star: Beyond the First Star is a fast-paced 2D side-scrolling shoot 'em up. Choose from distinct pilots, collect and switch between varied weapons, battle through handcrafted stages, and face bosses with unique attack patterns.
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Steam players who put hours into Beyond the First 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.
Lone Survivors
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Top pick for Beyond the First Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the First Star.
An objective-driven bullet heaven where twelve classes build absurd weapon synergies across shifting fantasy biomes. Raise the dead as a Necromancer, plow through enemies as a Knight, and more! Survive events, bosses, and campaign objectives, then chase endless leaderboard runs.
Lawnpocalypse
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Second-strongest match for Beyond the First Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Beyond the First Star.
Relaxing lawn care becomes thrilling horde survival! Fight, clean up, upgrade, invent game-breaking builds - and mow down hordes of enemies into neatly trimmed stripes of lawn.
Chronoseum
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Third-strongest match for Beyond the First Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the First Star.
An action roguelite where you fight through arenas and unlock epic upgrades! Defeat the Bosses and challenge the Emperor. Die, upgrade, die and descend again.
Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional
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Ranked #4 for Beyond the First Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the First Star.
The family computer is infected again and it’s your job to fend off waves of viruses and adware foes with an arsenal of nostalgic Y2K-inspired weapons. Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional is a survivor-like auto-shooter filled with nods to the days when computers were actually fun.
Cue Knight
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Ranked #5 for Beyond the First Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the First Star.
A roguelite inspired by billiards. Slay monsters using exquisite aim, powerful strategy and a bit of magic!
God, Save the Queens!
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Ranked #6 for Beyond the First Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the First Star.
You are God. The king’s five daughters have been taken. Fight thousands of enemies, unlock powerful skills, and defeat the evil wizard Zaharad in this brutal 2.5D roguelike!
Bumper & Thumper
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Ranked #7 for Beyond the First Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the First Star.
A chaotic vehicular combat roguelite. Choose your ride, ram through hundreds of robots, collect scrap to level up and stack weapons. Combine crazy upgrades to create the perfect build, face bosses, and outrun the deadly robots. If you stop, you die.
Rogue Space Convoy
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Ranked #8 for Beyond the First Star fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the First Star.
Rogue Space Convoy is a roguelite space action shooter where you pilot a fighter, build a convoy, and choose branching encounters across five hostile passages. Disable enemy cruisers, salvage upgrades, and keep the Ark alive long enough to reach the gate.
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STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Beyond the First Star.
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.
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 Beyond the First Star.
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 and Indie with Beyond the First 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 Beyond the First Star.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the First Star.
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!
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Beyond the First Star.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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Frequently asked about Beyond the First Star
- What games are most similar to Beyond the First Star?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Beyond the First Star are Lone Survivors, Lawnpocalypse, Chronoseum.
- Who developed Beyond the First Star?
- Beyond the First Star was developed by AE 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 Beyond the First Star.
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