Games like Stardust Origins
If Stardust Origins is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rebel Galaxy, X: Beyond the Frontier and X3: Terran Conflict — 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 Stardust Origins: You are a pilot, seeking revenge on your deceitful father who threw you into unknown space. Can you find your way back and get revenge? Experience a mix of 2D topdown space adventure and explore planets to discover quests, negotiate trades, mine, hunt and survive in an expanding universe.
Players who liked Stardust Origins also play
Steam players who put hours into Stardust Origins 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.
Rebel Galaxy
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Top pick for Stardust Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Stardust Origins.
Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.
X: Beyond the Frontier
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Second-strongest match for Stardust Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stardust Origins.
The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other worlds, but there was a fault in their programming and they turned and attacked. Forcing us to lay a trap to protect Earth and exiling the Human race to stay on Earth once again.
X3: Terran Conflict
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Third-strongest match for Stardust Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stardust Origins.
It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!
Gaia Beyond
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Ranked #4 for Stardust Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Stardust Origins.
Gaia Beyond is a handcrafted 2D Action-RPG, an exploration mix built around the core features fighting, mining and trading. Your decisions are footprints within a vast non-linear solar system. Forge alliances among numerous factions and develop relations with hundreds of NPCs.
Void Destroyer 2
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Ranked #5 for Stardust Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Stardust Origins.
Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.
Objects in Space
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Ranked #6 for Stardust Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Stardust Origins.
Objects in Space is a retro space game centred on 2D point-and-click stealth action in a massive open world. Players have their own customisable ships and can meet people, become a trader, bounty hunter, explorer, scavenger or all of them at once.
Starpoint Gemini 2
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Ranked #7 for Stardust Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Stardust Origins.
Captain your own space ship and roam the galaxy in 3D in this tactical space simulator with tons of RPG depth ! Space has never looked so inviting - but images can betray...It has been two years since the end of the second Gemini war, the situation in the wartorn system is further from resolution than ever.
Ostranauts
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Ranked #8 for Stardust Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Stardust Origins.
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Stardust Origins at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~74% under Stardust Origins on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Stardust Origins.
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
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Priced ~47% under Stardust Origins on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Stardust Origins.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~47% under Stardust Origins on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Stardust Origins.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~47% under Stardust Origins on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Stardust Origins.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~74% under Stardust Origins on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Stardust Origins.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Stardust Origins.
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.
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 Simulation with Stardust Origins.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Stardust Origins.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Stardust Origins.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Stardust Origins.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Stardust Origins
- How much does Stardust Origins cost?
- Stardust Origins is listed on Steam at 18.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Stardust Origins?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Stardust Origins are Rebel Galaxy, X: Beyond the Frontier, X3: Terran Conflict.
- Who developed Stardust Origins?
- Stardust Origins was developed by Nikolaj Piet Pagh and published by PetskullGames.
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 Stardust Origins.
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