Games like Starlathe
If Starlathe is your kind of game, the closest matches are Interstellar Rift, StarMade and Drifter — 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 Starlathe: Command your ship and fleet in a galaxy that truly lives: 150 sectors where six factions mine, haul, trade, build and wage war whether you're there or not. Trade it, rob it, defend it — or forge your own fleet and carve out your place in it.
Players who liked Starlathe also play
Steam players who put hours into Starlathe 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.
Interstellar Rift
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Top pick for Starlathe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Starlathe.
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
StarMade
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Second-strongest match for Starlathe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Starlathe.
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Drifter
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Third-strongest match for Starlathe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Starlathe.
Drifter is an open-world sandbox space trading game with a procedurally-generated galaxy 100,000 light years across made up of tens of thousands of star systems to explore and features an original soundtrack by composer Danny Baranowsky.
X3: Terran Conflict
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Ranked #4 for Starlathe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Starlathe.
It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!
The Infected
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Ranked #5 for Starlathe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Starlathe.
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
SAELIG
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Ranked #6 for Starlathe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starlathe.
SÆLIG is a game that blends together elements of simulation, strategy, RPG, and business management. Centred around the life of you and your family, you must try to survive and bring wealth and prosperity to your household.
Junkyard Simulator
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Ranked #7 for Starlathe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starlathe.
Did you ever wish to work in a junkyard? Now you can, with Junkyard Simulator. They are many roads leading to success - whichever you take depends on your decisions.
Celestial Command
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Ranked #8 for Starlathe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Starlathe.
Mine asteroids, salvage space debris, design your own small or massive spacecraft using individual functional components, complete missions, and engage in battles against enemies in a vast galaxy with realistic physics based on orbital mechanics or in a classic physics mode.
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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 Action and Indie with Starlathe.
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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 Starlathe.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starlathe.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starlathe.
Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Starlathe.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Starlathe.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Frequently asked about Starlathe
- What games are most similar to Starlathe?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Starlathe are Interstellar Rift, StarMade, Drifter.
- Who developed Starlathe?
- Starlathe was developed by Astraeon Interactive.
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 Starlathe.
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