Games like Starbound
Looking for games like Starbound? indielist surfaces 12 similar indie games by shared genre and Steam tags, ranked by review count. Starbound is a action game from 2016; the closest matches share its tags and audience. The top match by reviews is Terraria with 1,227,439 Steam reviews. Each game links to a white-box sales estimate you can audit. Matches are computed from tracked Steam data, not editorial opinion.
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Terraria
2011 · Action
1,227,439 reviews · 97% positive
Open World Survival CraftSandboxSurvival
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Sandbox. Different: leans more into singleplayer.
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Necesse
2025 · Action
23,379 reviews · 93% positive
Open World Survival CraftMultiplayerOpen World
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Multiplayer. Different: leans more into early access.
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Voidtrain
2025 · Action
8,517 reviews · 74% positive
Open World Survival CraftCo-opSurvival
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Co-op. Different: leans more into base-building.
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ARK: Survival Evolved
2017 · Action
583,081 reviews · 83% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayer
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into dinosaurs.
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Valheim
2021 · Action
455,972 reviews · 94% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOnline Co-Op
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into base-building.
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Palworld
2026 · Action
379,930 reviews · 94% positive
Open WorldSurvivalMultiplayer
Same: shares Open World and Survival. Different: leans more into creature collector.
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Don't Starve Together
2016 · Action
373,459 reviews · 95% positive
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftMultiplayer
Same: shares Survival and Open World Survival Craft. Different: leans more into difficult.
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No Man's Sky
2016 · Action
310,268 reviews · 85% positive
Open WorldOpen World Survival CraftSpace
Same: shares Open World and Open World Survival Craft. Different: leans more into procedural generation.
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Forager
2019 · Action
43,850 reviews · 90% positive
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalPixel Graphics
Same: shares Open World Survival Craft and Survival. Different: leans more into farming sim.
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Craftopia
2020 · Action
18,310 reviews · 76% positive
Open WorldCraftingSurvival
Same: shares Open World and Crafting. Different: leans more into early access.
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Smalland: Survive the Wilds
2024 · Action
10,335 reviews · 82% positive
SurvivalMultiplayerOpen World Survival Craft
Same: shares Survival and Multiplayer. Different: leans more into base-building.
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ASTRONEER
2019 · Adventure
118,359 reviews · 92% positive
MultiplayerOpen WorldOpen World Survival Craft
Same: shares Multiplayer and Open World. Different: leans more into base-building.
Frequently asked questions
- What games are like Starbound?
- indielist matches 12 indie games to Starbound by shared genre and Steam tags, led by Terraria (1,227,439 reviews). The list is ranked by review count.
- How are "games like Starbound" chosen?
- By overlap of Steam tags and primary genre with Starbound, weighted by review count as a popularity signal. It is computed from tracked data, not hand-picked, and updates as the catalog grows.