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Games like Starbound

Chucklefish · 2016 · 92 % positive of 164,906

24 games that play like Starbound and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Farworld Pioneers, Keplerth and Cubic Odyssey.

Player tags

  • Open World Survival Craft
  • Sandbox
  • Survival
  • Space
  • Adventure
  • Crafting
  • Pixel Graphics
  • Online Co-Op

At a glance

What games like Starbound have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Starbound: Sandbox (20 of 24), Survival (17) and Open World Survival Craft (14).
  • They came out between 2009 and 2026, 19 of them after Starbound (2016).
  • Best rated by Steam players: The Planet Crafter (96 % positive of 54,316).
  • 4 games both play and look like Starbound, among them Farworld Pioneers, Edge of Space and Aground.

By gameplay

Plays like Starbound

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Aground94 % positive of 1,841Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Survival
  2. SPORE™ Galactic Adventures89 % positive of 7,230Shared: Sandbox · Space · Crafting
  3. Orion Sandbox Enhanced93 % positive of 833Shared: Sandbox · Survival · RPG
  4. Star Valor89 % positive of 2,784Shared: Sandbox · Space · Open World
  5. Beyond Contact72 % positive of 1,010Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Space
  6. Forager89 % positive of 40,881Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Survival
  7. SpaceCraft63 % positive of 2,822
  8. Starcom: Nexus90 % positive of 2,132Shared: Space · Open World · Exploration
  9. The Planet Crafter96 % positive of 54,316Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Survival
  10. Little-Known Galaxy90 % positive of 652Shared: Space · Crafting · Pixel Graphics
  11. Creativerse77 % positive of 30,975Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox · Survival
  12. Starship EVO85 % positive of 1,079Shared: Sandbox · Space · Open World

By look

Looks like Starbound

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Core Keeper92 % positive of 54,979
  2. Alchemage69 % positive of 272
  3. Ageless56 % positive of 385
  4. Forsaken Isle67 % positive of 453
  5. Life Forge - Reborn ORPG68 % positive of 356
  6. Full Bore85 % positive of 237
  7. Realms of Magic80 % positive of 970
  8. Himno - The Silent Melody81 % positive of 332
  9. Planetoid Pioneers62 % positive of 390
  10. Deepworld60 % positive of 730
  11. Aground94 % positive of 1,841
  12. Ghost 1.090 % positive of 2,076

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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