Games like Sidebar Starship
If Sidebar Starship is your kind of game, the closest matches are Swarm Survivor: Endless Siege, Incrementalism: Paper Space and Don't Touch The Rocks — 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 Sidebar Starship: Park Sidebar Starship at the edge of your screen and let it aim, fire, and collect stardust. Death doesn't mean replaying everything from the beginning: every upgrade stays yours. Take over with WASD, the arrow keys, and Space when the shots get rude.
Players who liked Sidebar Starship also play
Steam players who put hours into Sidebar Starship 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.
Swarm Survivor: Endless Siege
WHY THIS
Top pick for Sidebar Starship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Sidebar Starship.
Swarm Survivors: Endless Siege is a light roguelike bullet-hell idle shooter. You play as the last survivor of the Swarm, fighting to stay alive under the endless siege of alien fleets. Build overwhelming power and face wave after wave of relentless challenges.
Incrementalism: Paper Space
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Sidebar Starship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sidebar Starship.
A run based shooter drawn on lined paper. Fly a paper ship across a desk, collect what you can before the fuel runs out, then spend it and go again. Five worlds, five currencies, and rules that rewrite themselves.
Don't Touch The Rocks
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Sidebar Starship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Sidebar Starship.
Don’t Touch The Rocks (DTTR) is a fast and punishing, incremental bullet hell. In DTTR, no ship flies alone. When one ship goes down, the next one tags in. Shoot, dodge, accidentally touch rock and break ship, repeat.
HordeFall
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Sidebar Starship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sidebar Starship.
A bulletheaven x incremental game that runs as a desktop companion in the corner of your screen! While you work, your hero automatically fights thousands of enemies. Unlock upgrades and manage your economy, attributes, and spells. Your screen is your battlefield - minimal space, maximum progress!
Around The Core
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Sidebar Starship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Sidebar Starship.
A space-themed incremental shooter where destruction fuels growth. Annihilate asteroids, harvest wealth, and climb a massive upgrade tree.
Incremental Space Defense Force League
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Sidebar Starship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sidebar Starship.
Pilot an A.C.E combat craft in a incremental retro styled sci-fi shoot 'em up where every run earns data shards, unlocks upgrades via 7 skill trees, fight bosses, conquer 100 prestige levels and push deeper into a war against the Worms invading the colony.
Fortress Full Fury
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Sidebar Starship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sidebar Starship.
An incremental bullet-heaven where every run feeds permanent upgrades. Defend your fortress, harvest crystals, and climb a 600+ node tech tree until your scrappy defenses become a screen-clearing arsenal against absurd swarms.
Run, Ronald, Run
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Sidebar Starship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sidebar Starship.
Run, Ronald, Run is an incremental arena shooter about a small circle trying to survive against a very large number of angry shapes.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sidebar Starship at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Sidebar Starship on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Sidebar Starship.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Sidebar Starship on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sidebar Starship.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Sidebar Starship on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sidebar Starship.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Sidebar Starship on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Sidebar Starship.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Sidebar Starship on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Sidebar Starship.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Sidebar Starship on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Sidebar Starship.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Sidebar Starship on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Sidebar Starship.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Sidebar Starship on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sidebar Starship.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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 Sidebar Starship.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sidebar Starship.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Sidebar Starship.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Sidebar Starship.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Sidebar Starship.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Sidebar Starship.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sidebar Starship.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Sidebar Starship
- How much does Sidebar Starship cost?
- Sidebar Starship is listed on Steam at 3.39 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Sidebar Starship?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sidebar Starship are Swarm Survivor: Endless Siege, Incrementalism: Paper Space, Don't Touch The Rocks.
- Who developed Sidebar Starship?
- Sidebar Starship was developed by 初心者工作室.
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