Games like Starhand
If Starhand is your kind of game, the closest matches are Card Warrior, 天雨粟 and Inga Chronicle — 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 Starhand: A roguelite deckbuilder where your cards are your ship. Every card draws on a system — weapons, shields, engines, scanners, engineering. Enemies don't just chew your hull, they knock systems offline and lock those cards out of your hand. Six pilots, 355 cards, eight zones. Improvise or die.
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Card Warrior
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Top pick for Starhand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starhand.
Card Warrior is a wuxia roguelike card game combining martial arts and card mechanics. Play cards to strike, parry, counterattack, and strike relentlessly when you spot enemies’ flaws. Walk the path of a worrior. What kind of hero will you be?
天雨粟
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Second-strongest match for Starhand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starhand.
Break glyphs into radicals, compose them into Chinese characters, and cast every word as a card. An ink-wash roguelike deckbuilder: five script styles, a three-act campaign, hanging characters that live between turns, and verse-linked combos against demons born from corrupted ink.
Inga Chronicle
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Third-strongest match for Starhand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Starhand.
A deckbuilding roguelike where real history makes the strongest combos. 200+ cards, 100+ Causal Combos rooted in authentic Japanese history — from Asuka to Bakumatsu. The more you know, the stronger you get.
Escape the Umbra
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Ranked #4 for Starhand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starhand.
A roguelike deckbuilder with the positional combat of a turn-based tactics game. Shape your deck with weapons, spells and relics, use the battlefield to your advantage, and carry light into an ever-changing labyrinth.
Recall Rogue
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Ranked #5 for Starhand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starhand.
The knowledge roguelite. Answer questions to hit harder, skip them to die faster. The deeper you go, the more the dungeon punishes ignorance. Bosses shrug off everything but proven knowledge. 98 decks, 7 languages, 67,000 real facts. Guilt-free gaming.
POKOR
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Ranked #6 for Starhand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starhand.
POKOR is a story-driven roguelike tactical turn-based card RPG. Players take on the role of Heart, commanding a deck of playing card soldiers to engage in turn-based battles against enemies as they venture deeper into a vast, pale, and ever-changing palace to uncover the truth and the true self.
Spell Death
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Ranked #7 for Starhand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starhand.
Your deck is the alphabet. A roguelike deckbuilder where you spell words to kill things, and every letter rides a paper stock: Iron turns damage into Block, Jagged only cuts when you throw it, Volatile explodes if you sit on it.
Fatal Dopamine/ 致命多巴胺
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Ranked #8 for Starhand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Starhand.
Play as a nameless gambler who arrives at a mysterious gambling table, constantly challenging different opponents. At this table, the stakes are not money but life itself.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starhand.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Starhand.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Starhand.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starhand.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starhand.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Starhand.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starhand.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
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Frequently asked about Starhand
- What games are most similar to Starhand?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Starhand are Card Warrior, 天雨粟, Inga Chronicle.
- Who developed Starhand?
- Starhand was developed by Christopher Hinckley.
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 Starhand.
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