Games like DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge
If DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge is your kind of game, the closest matches are REVO, Psyvariar 3 and Astro Fighters — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its awesome chiptune soundtrack, atmospheric and challenging. 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 DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge: Will you have what it takes to avenge your father, defeat the evil DreadSkull and save the galaxy? Collect gems and customize your ship to get through six replayable sectors, annihilate your foes and fight epic bosses in this classic styled pixel art shoot'em'up with RPG progression.
Players who liked DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge also play
Steam players who put hours into DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge 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.
REVO
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Top pick for DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
Dodge and shoot your way through waves of enemies. REVO is a high speed, neon drenched space shoot ‘em up inspired by arcade classics of the 1980’s. Collect pickups, unlock powerful, ammo hungry weapons, and defeat giant bosses.
Psyvariar 3
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Second-strongest match for DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
Play as one of 7 pilots in this thrilling sequel to a SHMUP classic. The time has come for a new generation of Psyvariars to rise… and save humanity.
Astro Fighters
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Third-strongest match for DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
Astro Fighters is a tough old school vertical scrolling bullet hell shooter designed to test your skills with non-stop arcade style action. Fight against large bosses at the end of every level and compete for the high score across 4 difficulty modes to be the best fighter pilot in the game.
Hyperbolic Ignition
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Ranked #4 for DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
Hyperbolic Ignition is a 2D multidirectional bullet hell-like shooter about a wandering pilot trying to return home. By utilizing wormholes, enter and evade combat against hostile spaceships, machinery, sentient crystals, and remnants of warfare.
Space War: Infinity
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
Ranked #5 for DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
Vertical semi-procedural shmup with upgrades, real-time enemy waves, and infinite replayability. Level up your ship, unlock 20+ weapons, defeat 5 bosses, and survive endless bullet-hell combat.
Cosmonator
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Shares a challenging mood with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
Ranked #6 for DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
Cosmonator is an 'RPG-em-up': a hybrid of classic fast-paced top-down shoot-em-up action infused with deep character building elements. Build up your own unique alien-killing machine to avenge the destruction of planet Earth!
SCHAR: Blue Shield Alliance
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Ranked #7 for DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
SCHAR: Blue Shield Alliance is a cooperative twin-stick shooter that features a variety of complementing ship classes to choose from. Upgrade your ships, defeat hundreds of enemies, save the galaxy all with some friends from the comfort of your couch.
Truxton 2
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Ranked #8 for DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
The sequel to Toaplan’s shoot ‘em up masterpiece Truxton is a thrilling insane space action with an unforgiving difficulty level. Enjoy the visually stunning pixel graphics and vibrant music as you dodge the high-speed bullet rain and take on tough bosses.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge on Steam right now. Shares Action with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~53% under DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge on Steam right now. Shares Action with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge on Steam right now. Shares Action with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
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?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~70% under DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge on Steam right now. Shares Action with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Noita
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Priced ~47% under DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge on Steam right now. Shares Action with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
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.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~93% under DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge on Steam right now. Shares Action with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~80% under DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge on Steam right now. Shares Action with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~67% under DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge on Steam right now. Shares Action with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
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.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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Frequently asked about DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge
- How much does DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge cost?
- DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge are REVO, Psyvariar 3, Astro Fighters.
- Who developed DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge?
- DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge was developed by Augmented Irreality.
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 DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge.
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