Games like Star Renegades
If Star Renegades is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Last Spell, Pathway and Chaos Front — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its characters are very unique, tactical positioning matters and unique combat mechanic. 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 →Star Renegades is a dimension-spanning rogue-lite strategy RPG developed by Massive Damage and published by Raw Fury, released in 2020 at $24.99. It combines procedurally generated encounters with faction politics, character banter, and meaningful micro-decisions that shape each run. The timeline-based combat system requires careful tactical positioning, and reviewers highlight the distinctive combat mechanic alongside the unique characters. Players describe the experience as both challenging and immersive. The game is solo-only, verified on Steam Deck, and holds an 81% positive rating from over 1,600 Steam reviews.
About Star Renegades: Star Renegades is a dimension spanning rogue-lite strategy RPG. Outsmart uniquely generated adversaries, forge bonds between heroes and end the cycle!
Players who liked Star Renegades also play
Steam players who put hours into Star Renegades 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.
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Star Renegades.
Top pick for Star Renegades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Star Renegades.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Pathway
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Star Renegades.
Second-strongest match for Star Renegades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Renegades.
Explore the strange unknown with Pathway, a strategy adventure set in the 1930s great wilderness. Unravel long-forgotten mysteries of the occult, raid ancient tombs and outwit your foes in turn-based squad combat!
Chaos Front
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Star Renegades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Renegades.
A turn-based space mecha mercenary game. You can recruit pilots and captains with varying stories and skills, buy and modify spaceships, mecha, artillery, and fighters, take missions, participate in battles between Galactic Powers, change the situations, and experience different stories.
Spellpowder: Uprising
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Star Renegades.
Ranked #4 for Star Renegades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Star Renegades.
Witness the Uprising - a rebellion seeking to overthrow the noble rule - in this strategy RPG set in a steampunk fantasy world. Create your character, form a party of trusted companions, and bring justice to a world torn by conflict through tactical turn-based battles.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION)
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Star Renegades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Renegades.
A retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling. Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition is a massively enhanced version of the Award Winning indie strategy RPG, Halcyon 6.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Star Renegades.
Ranked #6 for Star Renegades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Renegades.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.
Templar Battleforce
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Star Renegades.
Ranked #7 for Star Renegades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Star Renegades.
An addictive mix of strategic combat and army building, with the precision of an RPG. Design your squad members' exact build of equipment and talents to create unique fireteam combinations. Step into the pilot suit of a Leviathan mech, lead the Templar Knights in turn-based tactical warfare.
Tactics Ogre: Reborn
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Star Renegades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Star Renegades.
Tactics Ogre, crown jewel of the tactical role-playing genre, is reborn! Based on the 2010 release, the game features improved graphics and sound, as well as updated game design, bringing to life a new Tactics Ogre that remains true to its roots.
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Shadows of War
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Star Renegades cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Renegades.
Shadows of War is a 2D Real-Time Strategy sidescroller game. The game combines classical RTS elements with new ideas into a 2D game.
Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Star Renegades cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Star Renegades.
Experience an epic open-world brought to life by the award-winning Nemesis System. Forge a new Ring of Power, conquer Fortresses in massive battles and dominate Mordor with your personal orc army in Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™.
Starship Wars
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Star Renegades cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Star Renegades.
Destroy enemies, bosses and everything you see ahead!! Get crystals to buy better starships and get stronger. Have fun in three different game modes.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Star Renegades at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Star Renegades on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Renegades.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Star Renegades on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Star Renegades.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Star Renegades on Steam right now. Shares Action with Star Renegades.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Star Renegades on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Star Renegades.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Star Renegades on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Star Renegades.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Star Renegades on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Star Renegades.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Star Renegades.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Renegades.
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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Star Renegades.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Star Renegades.
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.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Star Renegades.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Star Renegades.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Renegades.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
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More from Massive Damage, Inc.
Other recommendable Steam games by Massive Damage, Inc., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Star Renegades.
Another title from Massive Damage, Inc., the studio behind Star Renegades. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Renegades.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION)
WHY THIS
Another title from Massive Damage, Inc., the studio behind Star Renegades. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Renegades.
A retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling. Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition is a massively enhanced version of the Award Winning indie strategy RPG, Halcyon 6.
Fera: The Sundered Tribes
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Star Renegades.
Another title from Massive Damage, Inc., the studio behind Star Renegades. Shares Action and Indie with Star Renegades.
Fera: The Sundered Tribes is an enthralling mixture of monster hunting survival action RPG with village building and tribe management with groundbreaking aerial traversal and combat mechanics.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Star Renegades.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Star Renegades.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Star Renegades.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Renegades.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.
Tactics Ogre: Reborn
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation and RPG with Star Renegades.
Tactics Ogre, crown jewel of the tactical role-playing genre, is reborn! Based on the 2010 release, the game features improved graphics and sound, as well as updated game design, bringing to life a new Tactics Ogre that remains true to its roots.
Frequently asked about Star Renegades
- Is Star Renegades verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Star Renegades is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Star Renegades cost?
- Star Renegades is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Star Renegades?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Star Renegades are The Last Spell, Pathway, Chaos Front.
- Who developed Star Renegades?
- Star Renegades was developed by Massive Damage, Inc. and published by Raw Fury.
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