Games like Star Explorers
If Star Explorers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Approaching Infinity, Space Travellers and Elite Dangerous — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cozy yet immersive atmosphere, atmospheric and chill. 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 Star Explorers: Planets, aliens, resources, upgrades, caves, mapping & documenting star systems ... seek a new home for the human race. An all-inclusive (admittedly janky) procedural space-sim made by solo developer Schmidt Workshops.
Players who liked Star Explorers also play
Steam players who put hours into Star Explorers 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.
Approaching Infinity
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Explorers.
Top pick for Star Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Explorers.
Approaching Infinity is a turn-based space RPG in the spirit of the sci-fi classics, with endless progression and exploration. Fight tactical battles or use diplomacy. Seek powerful artifacts. Quest, mine, trade, and craft. Level up forever or attempt 10 victories in hardcore or adventure mode.
Space Travellers
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Star Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
Space Travellers is a unique open-world sandbox space simulator set in the year 2343. Travel the galaxy, trade, explore unexplored worlds, fight, build bases and factories, forge alliances and experience new adventures!
Elite Dangerous
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Explorers.
Third-strongest match for Star Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Explorers.
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
3030 Deathwar Redux - A Space Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Explorers.
Ranked #4 for Star Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
3030 Deathwar is a unique mix of Adventure and Space Sim. Explore star systems, mine and hunt pirates in top-down mode. Leave your ship and switch into classic Adventuring mode, where you explore derelicts, talk to shady characters or head over to the space bar for a drink.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Star Explorers.
Ranked #5 for Star Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Explorers.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Rebel Galaxy
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Explorers.
Ranked #6 for Star Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.
SpaceCraft
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Star Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Explorers.
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Explorers.
Ranked #8 for Star Explorers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
Out of cash, out of luck, out on the fringe. Juno Markev has a killer to tail, a debt to pay, and more trouble headed her way. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw takes place in a greasy, blue-collar world of outlaws, truckers, cops and thieves.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Star Explorers
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Rodina
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Explorers.
Reviewers of Star Explorers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
A single-developer passion project. A seamless full scale solar system. Thrilling action. Be part of an incredible journey as a Universe is built from the ground up!
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Star Explorers.
Reviewers of Star Explorers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Explorers.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Starfield
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Explorers.
Reviewers of Star Explorers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Star Explorers.
Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Star Explorers.
Reviewers of Star Explorers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Explorers.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Star Control III
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Explorers.
Reviewers of Star Explorers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
The universe is on the brink of destruction. It’s up to you to embark on an epic adventure of strategy and diplomacy to save thousands of worlds from total annihilation. But no pressure, right?
Star Control I and II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Explorers.
Reviewers of Star Explorers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
Explore a vast universe with pulse-pounding action, side-splitting humor, and hair-raising plot twists in these 2 classic space adventure games.
X4: Foundations
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Star Explorers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Simulation with Star Explorers.
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Star Explorers at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Star Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
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 ~60% under Star Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Explorers.
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 ~70% under Star Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Explorers.
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 ~80% under Star Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Explorers.
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 ~60% under Star Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Star Explorers.
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.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Star Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Action with Star Explorers.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Star Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Explorers.
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!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Star Explorers on Steam right now. Shares Action with Star Explorers.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
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 and Adventure with Star Explorers.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Explorers.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Star Explorers.
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 Star Explorers.
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 Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Star Explorers.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Explorers.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Explorers.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Schmidt Workshops
Other recommendable Steam games by Schmidt Workshops, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Islands of the Caliph
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Explorers.
Another title from Schmidt Workshops, the studio behind Star Explorers. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
Islands of the Caliph is an old-school inspired action RPG based on Middle Eastern folklore and Islamic spiritual tradition. A KEYBOARD ONLY 1980s style Dungeon Crawler with an open world.
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss
WHY THIS
Shares dungeon crawling, procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Star Explorers.
Another title from Schmidt Workshops, the studio behind Star Explorers. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Explorers.
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a small scale, mechanics driven CRPG/Roguelike in a retro, monochromatic style, that takes place in the underworld of H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands.
Anomalies
WHY THIS
Another title from Schmidt Workshops, the studio behind Star Explorers. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Explorers.
Are you looking for something completely different? An oddity? An enigma? Or perhaps .. an Anomaly? Anomalies may be a game, then again it may not. One user described it as "A million musical leeches, waiting to suck the serotonin from my brain." And that's just the beginning...
Rocket Blasters
WHY THIS
Another title from Schmidt Workshops, the studio behind Star Explorers. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
Rocket Blasters is a fast paced, action packed shoot-em-up set during the invasion of the Dread Pizza Armada. Its hand-drawn art gives it a unique style. Blowing stuff up has never been so fun!
Paradox Vector
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Star Explorers.
Another title from Schmidt Workshops, the studio behind Star Explorers. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
Explore impossible mazes while battling the Ancient Ones and their bio-mechanical servitors in this retro first-person, Lovecraft inspired shooter. Paradox Vector's graphics are inspired by the old-school vector graphics games of the early 1980's.
Aberration Analyst
WHY THIS
Another title from Schmidt Workshops, the studio behind Star Explorers. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Explorers.
Work strange hours ... analyze incomplete and unreliable information ... save the world from monsters, and shut down their means of access in this experimental, point-and-click supernatural strategy simulator.
Frequently asked about Star Explorers
- Does Star Explorers run on Steam Deck?
- Star Explorers is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Star Explorers cost?
- Star Explorers is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Star Explorers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Star Explorers are Approaching Infinity, Space Travellers, Elite Dangerous.
- Who developed Star Explorers?
- Star Explorers was developed by Schmidt Workshops.
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