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Games like Star Story: The Horizon Escape

If Star Story: The Horizon Escape is your kind of game, the closest matches are Saga · The Circle, Empyreal Dawn and Telvoikai — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its crafting system enhances replayability, challenging and contemplative. 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.

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About Star Story: The Horizon Escape: Join the journey of a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet. A text turn-based adventure RPG in which your choices actually matter. Talk, explore, fight, make decisions to find a way out! Colourful graphics and the old comic book spirit.

2017IndieAdventureRPGCasual14.99 USDWindows · macOSby EvilCoGames
Star Story: The Horizon Escape — Steam game cover
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24 unique endings to uncoverChoices drastically alter story outcomesCrafting system enhances replayabilityChallengingContemplativeWhimsical

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Steam players who put hours into Star Story: The Horizon Escape 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.

  1. Saga · The Circle

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Star Story: The Horizon Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    The Holy Sword has been drawn. Now gather the Knights of the Round Table to rebuild the kingdom. Explore and investigate war-torn Britain, and fight in tactical battles where stealing turns matters. In this Literary CRPG, every choice shapes your values, your allies, and the fate of Britain itself.

    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Empyreal Dawn

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Star Story: The Horizon Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    Empyreal Dawn is a Gothic Fantasy Adventure where you lead a party named Caeruleum. Accompanied by the Swordsmaiden Alice Starwell, undertake your first steps toward becoming legendary heroes! Featuring full voice acting, an original soundtrack, and more!

    2023IndieAdventureRPG29.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Telvoikai

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Star Story: The Horizon Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    You've been tasked with collecting data on an alien planet. Choose between exploring the jungle tropics or navigating deep into the bioluminescent sea.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Yogoe Hunter

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Star Story: The Horizon Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    A choice-driven roguelike text adventure set in medieval Korea and Japan. Encounter 218 mythological creatures from East Asian folklore, shape your story across 94 endings, and grow stronger with each run in a deep, culturally rich world.

    2025IndieAdventureRPG6.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Choose Your Own Alternative

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Star Story: The Horizon Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. You have 30 days to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation3.49 USDSteam ↗
  6. The Sych story

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Star Story: The Horizon Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    Live a couple of days in the life of an ordinary omezhka owl. This is a visual novel about each of us, and no one in particular. Make your choice and decide the fate of Slavka Sychov.

    2021IndieRPG0.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Chinese Strange Stories

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Star Story: The Horizon Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    Step into a living Chinese painting that blends the mystical, supernatural, and the struggles of daily life in the final years of the Ming dynasty. Experience a unique mix of classic turn-based RPG mechanics and dynamic card battling, where strategy and fate intertwine.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  8. Devil on Your Shoulder

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and a whimsical mood with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    Ranked #8 for Star Story: The Horizon Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    See your name in lights on Broadway! Find fame, fortune, and true love! All it costs is your immortal soul.

    2025IndieAdventureRPG6.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Star Story: The Horizon Escape at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Star Story: The Horizon Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Star Story: The Horizon Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Star Story: The Horizon Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Star Story: The Horizon Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Star Story: The Horizon Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Star Story: The Horizon Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Star Story: The Horizon Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Star Story: The Horizon Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  5. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. A Date with Death

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Star Story: The Horizon Escape

How much does Star Story: The Horizon Escape cost?
Star Story: The Horizon Escape is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Star Story: The Horizon Escape?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Star Story: The Horizon Escape are Saga · The Circle, Empyreal Dawn, Telvoikai.
Who developed Star Story: The Horizon Escape?
Star Story: The Horizon Escape was developed by EvilCoGames.

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 Star Story: The Horizon Escape.

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