Games like Star Trek Online
If Star Trek Online is your kind of game, the closest matches are STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™, EVE Online and Champions Online — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its epic, grand and immersive. 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 Trek Online is a free-to-play massively multiplayer RPG set in the iconic science fiction universe, released in 2012. Players command their own starships and crews, engaging in both space combat and ground combat across a persistent online universe. The game features extensive ship customization and faction politics alongside admiralty systems and progression mechanics. Players describe the experience as epic, grand, immersive, and nostalgic, with episodic story missions featuring voice work from Star Trek actors. Ship-to-ship combat is highlighted by players as feeling authentic to the source material, allowing captains to live out Star Trek fantasies in a massive multiplayer setting. The game holds a 79 percent positive rating from over 16,000 Steam reviews and is playable on Steam Deck.
About Star Trek Online: In Star Trek Online, the Star Trek universe appears for the first time on a truly massive scale. Players take the captain's chair as they command their own starship and crew. Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before.
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Steam players who put hours into Star Trek Online 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.
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Star Trek Online.
Top pick for Star Trek Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Star Trek Online.
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ is a free-to-play MMORPG that puts you at the center of your own story-driven saga. Play as a Jedi, Sith, Bounty Hunter, or one of many other iconic STAR WARS roles in the galaxy far, far away over three thousand years before the classic films.
EVE Online
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Star Trek Online.
Second-strongest match for Star Trek Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Star Trek Online.
Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.
Champions Online
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Star Trek Online.
Third-strongest match for Star Trek Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Star Trek Online.
Grab your cape and defend Millennium City in this comic book-style action MMORPG! Design your hero and costume from thousands of costume pieces, face super-villains like Dr. Destroyer, and create your own unique nemesis.
Neverwinter
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Star Trek Online.
Ranked #4 for Star Trek Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Star Trek Online.
Neverwinter is a free, action MMORPG based on the acclaimed Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game. Epic stories, action combat and classic roleplaying await those heroes courageous enough to enter the fantastic world of Neverwinter!
The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Star Trek Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Star Trek Online.
Traverse the Telvanni Peninsula in Morrowind and preserve secrets ascribed to the unfathomable realms of Apocrypha. Unlock the runic power of a brand-new class - the Arcanist - and fight to uphold reality itself.
The Elder Scrolls® Online
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Star Trek Online.
Ranked #6 for Star Trek Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Star Trek Online.
Every legend starts somewhere and in The Elder Scrolls Online, it starts with you. Join millions of players in an online, fantasy RPG set in a vast living Elder Scrolls world.
DC Universe™ Online
WHY THIS
Shares a grand mood with Star Trek Online.
Ranked #7 for Star Trek Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Star Trek Online.
DC Universe Online is a Free-to-Play, massive multiplayer online action game set in the popular DC Universe. Become one of a new breed of Heroes or Villains and wield incredible powers as you go to war with legendary characters such as Batman, Superman, Lex Luthor and The Joker.
RIFT
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and a nostalgic mood with Star Trek Online.
Ranked #8 for Star Trek Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Star Trek Online.
Dive into a world of epic adventure! Create your perfect hero thanks to a uniquely customizable class system. Collect, craft, and customize your gear. Go it alone or group up to challenge dungeons, raids, dynamic open-world content, and your fellow players.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Star Trek Online
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Mass Effect (2007)
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Star Trek Online.
Reviewers of Star Trek Online cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Star Trek Online.
As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
Warframe
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Star Trek Online.
Reviewers of Star Trek Online cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG and Free To Play with Star Trek Online.
Awaken as an unstoppable warrior and battle alongside your friends in this story-driven free-to-play online action game
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Star Trek Online.
Reviewers of Star Trek Online cross-mention this title as a similar play.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Star Trek™: Starfleet Academy
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Star Trek Online.
Reviewers of Star Trek Online cross-mention this title as a similar play.
A must for any fan, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is an action/flight simulator featuring filmed footage of the original Star Trek actors. Take your place among the best and brightest at Starfleet Academy!
Star Trek: Starfleet Command Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Shares ship customization and a nostalgic mood with Star Trek Online.
Reviewers of Star Trek Online cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Dozens of missions & more than 50 ship designs put you in the captain’s chair for an amazing real-time space combat experience commanding ships from the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, the Hydran Kingdom, the Gorn Confederation or the Lyran Star Empire!
Star Trek™: Bridge Crew
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Star Trek Online.
Reviewers of Star Trek Online cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Star Trek Online.
Star Trek™: Bridge Crew, playable in both VR and non-VR, will immerse you in the Star Trek universe. In co-op, form a crew of four players to serve in the roles of Captain, Helm, Tactical or Engineer. Make strategic decisions and coordinate actions with your crew.
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Star Trek Online.
Reviewers of Star Trek Online cross-mention this title as a similar play.
A galaxy-spanning adventure awaits in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, a 3rd person action-adventure title from Respawn. An abandoned Padawan must complete his training, develop new powerful Force abilities, and master the art of the lightsaber - all while staying one step ahead of the Empire.
Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Star Trek Online.
Reviewers of Star Trek Online cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown is a story-driven survival strategy game in which the fate of the iconic starship is in your hands. Take the helm, manage the ship and resources, and make difficult decisions. Will you be able to bring home the ship and its crew?
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Frequently asked about Star Trek Online
- Does Star Trek Online run on Steam Deck?
- Star Trek Online is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is Star Trek Online free to play?
- Yes — Star Trek Online is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- Does Star Trek Online have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Star Trek Online supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Star Trek Online?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Star Trek Online are STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™, EVE Online, Champions Online.
- Who developed Star Trek Online?
- Star Trek Online was developed by Cryptic Studios and published by Arc Games.
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 Trek Online.
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