Games like Starstack
If Starstack is your kind of game, the closest matches are Frontworks, Attrition Line and Main Sequence — 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 Starstack: Build an automated planetary factory, design modular warships, then risk them in tactical space expeditions for rare technology and resources. Push deeper for greater rewards—or return home alive and expand your factory. The factory powers the ship; the ship unlocks the factory.
Players who liked Starstack also play
Steam players who put hours into Starstack 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.
Frontworks
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Top pick for Starstack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starstack.
Build a war factory on a hostile alien world. Extract raw ore and refine it into complex components. Automate logistics, manufacturing and army recruitment. Defend against huge waves of native robots and alien wildlife, then send your army to raze enemy bases for planetary domination.
Attrition Line
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Starstack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starstack.
A factory game about building an army. Mine, smelt, and manufacture soldiers on an assembly line, then send them to fight a swarm that grows every hour. The more you automate, the bigger your army. Fall behind and the line breaks.
Main Sequence
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Starstack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starstack.
Main Sequence is a first-person space-sim factory builder where you design spaceships, build space stations, and automate everything. Start with a single ship and grow to become an interstellar industrial empire as you leave your mark on the galaxy.
Jump Crew
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Starstack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Starstack.
Build a ship tile by tile, automate production, and explore a persistent galaxy of little worlds. Forage, hunt, mine and forge with friends, establish planetary outposts, survive space hazards, and raid rival crews in this co-op PvPvE.
Belts of Iron
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Ranked #5 for Starstack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Starstack.
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Kardaviik
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Ranked #6 for Starstack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starstack.
Kardaviik is a 3D factory automation game set in a voxel asteroid belt. Your mission: harness energy, ascend the Kardashev Scale, and save Earth. Conquer the expansive procedurally generated belt by harvesting resources and extracting fuel, and build your ultimate space factory!
Project Substrata
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Ranked #7 for Starstack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Starstack.
A base-building and automation game about restoring a ruined planet. Mine resources, build factories, deploy AI drones, and revive a living world.
Space
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Ranked #8 for Starstack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Starstack.
Stranded on a hostile alien world, you must gather resources, craft tools, and automate production to survive. Build a base, fend off deadly wildlife, and uncover ancient secrets in this immersive sci-fi survival adventure. Will you conquer the planet or succumb to its perils?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Starstack.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starstack.
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?
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Starstack.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Starstack.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Starstack.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starstack.
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.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Starstack.
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!
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Frequently asked about Starstack
- Does Starstack have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Starstack supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Starstack?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Starstack are Frontworks, Attrition Line, Main Sequence.
- Who developed Starstack?
- Starstack was developed by Hexline 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 Starstack.
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