Games Like StarMade (2026)

Shared: tier:indie

The dating-sim wrapper is bait, and MiSide knows it. What starts as idle chores with an anime girl becomes a genre-hopping psychological horror that two developers built better than most studios manage with a full team.

Shared: tier:indie

Four friends, one camera, and a procedurally generated underground full of things that want to kill you on film. Content Warning is the co-op horror bit that somehow became the social satire nobody asked for but everyone needed.

Shared: Fleet Combat

Put 50 hours in before you see the cracks, and 500 before you stop caring about them. Stellaris is the deepest space grand strategy on PC, but the DLC wall and a shaky 4.0 patch make the entry point complicated right now.

Shared: Space Sandbox

One of gaming's most public redemption stories, rebuilt from a hollow launch into a sprawling space sandbox - but if you showed up for tight gunplay or a ranked ladder, board a different ship now.

Shared: Faction Warfare

Drop into chaotic third-person co-op warfare against bugs and robots, where friendly fire is always on and calling in the wrong stratagem can wipe your whole squad.