Games like Starmadillo
If Starmadillo is your kind of game, the closest matches are Riftshot, HIIT: Stranded on Zaruma and Squirrel with a Gun — 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 Starmadillo: As an armadillo space archaeologist, you've crashed onto a mysterious planet. Luckily you're equipped with a Mobile Defense Unit (MDU) that can defend you from danger, but its capabilities were severely reduced by the impact. In true Metroidvania fashion, explore this alien world and find a way home
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Riftshot
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Top pick for Starmadillo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Starmadillo.
Riftshot is a 3D Platformer without the need for platforms. Utilize your trusty grappling hook to shoot through the air blisteringly fast!
HIIT: Stranded on Zaruma
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Second-strongest match for Starmadillo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Starmadillo.
Trapped on the mysterious planet Zaruma, use tools like the Drone, Scanner, and Hookshot to explore the ruins of an ancient civilization and uncover what happened before your arrival.
Squirrel with a Gun
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Third-strongest match for Starmadillo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Starmadillo.
Squirrel, meet gun. As the neighborhood’s most obnoxious rodent, develop a knack (and a love?) for crime and mayhem in pursuit of golden acorns in this nutty sandbox shooter and puzzle platformer. Fight tooth, claw, and gun to escape a secret underground facility and defeat the Agents.
Ruffy and the Riverside
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Ranked #4 for Starmadillo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Starmadillo.
In Ruffy and the Riverside, you wield the magic SWAP to Copy & Paste textures - turn ice into lava or waterfalls into vines! Explore, fight, skate on straw bales, and unleash your imagination in this quirky open-world action game. Dive into an adventure that lets you literally change the world!
Shadow Man Remastered
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Ranked #5 for Starmadillo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Starmadillo.
He is coming, stalking criminals in the spirit world and the real world. A possessed man is coming, a voodoo mask in his chest and lines of power in his back. Shadow Man is coming, trailing evil from Liveside to Deadside. To stop an apocalypse. To save your soul.
Haydee 3
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Ranked #6 for Starmadillo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Starmadillo.
Haydee III is a hardcore metroidvania with third-person shooter mechanics, platforming, puzzles, a sexy heroine and cake!
Recompile
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Ranked #7 for Starmadillo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Starmadillo.
This atmospheric, Metroidvania hacking adventure lets you take control of a semi-sapient program struggling against deletion. In the sprawling 3D world of a Mainframe, Recompile features intense combat, tight 3D platforming, super-powered abilities and an environmental logic-based hacking mechanic.
Supraland
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Ranked #8 for Starmadillo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Starmadillo.
Try the demo! A mix between Portal, Zelda and Metroid. Exploration, puzzles, terrible combat, secret upgrades and new abilities that help you reach new places. Playtime 12-25h.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Starmadillo.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Starmadillo.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starmadillo.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Starmadillo.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Starmadillo.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Starmadillo.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starmadillo.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Starmadillo.
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.).
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Squirrel with a Gun
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Starmadillo.
Squirrel, meet gun. As the neighborhood’s most obnoxious rodent, develop a knack (and a love?) for crime and mayhem in pursuit of golden acorns in this nutty sandbox shooter and puzzle platformer. Fight tooth, claw, and gun to escape a secret underground facility and defeat the Agents.
Ruffy and the Riverside
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Starmadillo.
In Ruffy and the Riverside, you wield the magic SWAP to Copy & Paste textures - turn ice into lava or waterfalls into vines! Explore, fight, skate on straw bales, and unleash your imagination in this quirky open-world action game. Dive into an adventure that lets you literally change the world!
Shadow Man Remastered
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Starmadillo.
He is coming, stalking criminals in the spirit world and the real world. A possessed man is coming, a voodoo mask in his chest and lines of power in his back. Shadow Man is coming, trailing evil from Liveside to Deadside. To stop an apocalypse. To save your soul.
Recompile
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Starmadillo.
This atmospheric, Metroidvania hacking adventure lets you take control of a semi-sapient program struggling against deletion. In the sprawling 3D world of a Mainframe, Recompile features intense combat, tight 3D platforming, super-powered abilities and an environmental logic-based hacking mechanic.
Frequently asked about Starmadillo
- What games are most similar to Starmadillo?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Starmadillo are Riftshot, HIIT: Stranded on Zaruma, Squirrel with a Gun.
- Who developed Starmadillo?
- Starmadillo was developed by Doodle.
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 Starmadillo.
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