Games like Star Vortex

Remember how replayable and fast-paced Star Vortex felt at its best? These games are a good place to start.

Star Valor
A top-down space action RPG where you start as a nobody with a small ship and work your way up in a procedurally generated galaxy. Mine asteroids, run cargo, hunt bounties or turn pirate, join one of six factions or stay independent, and build a fleet worth fearing. Made by a single developer, and it shows in the best way.
Replayable, Fast-paced, Retro
88% of 3,316 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 118$24.99
Psycho Starship Rampage
You play the psychotic A.I. of a warship lost in space which tries to come back to Earth. Build your spaceship from scratch. Load it with weapons. And use your creation to destroy waves of innocent aliens throughout numerous levels. Loot their carcasses, extend your ship and jump to the next sector for more action!
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Fast-paced, Tense
82% of 128 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Sector Six
Sector Six is a side-scrolling, sci-fi shooter with a silhouette aesthetic, procedural loot, extensive customization, and story missions.
Replayable, Fast-paced, Tense
93% of 222 Steam reviews are positive$8
StarShip Constructor
Galaxy is on fire! Only you can save it! More than 20 modules and even more weapons and equipment,you can design your own spaceship and defeat the most powerful ships in galaxy!
Replayable, Fast-paced, Tense
65% of 249 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Starforged Legacy
Turn one salvaged starship into a fleet-destroying war machine. Weave through enemy swarms while your guns fire themselves, stack wild weapon and augment combos, and pick your route across a galaxy that reshuffles every run. Death only makes the next expedition stronger.
Replayable, Fast-paced, Tense
88% of 195 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$7.99
Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
Design starships piece by piece, staff them with crews of individually simulated people, and send them into physics-driven battles where every module can be blown off the hull. Explore a procedurally generated galaxy alone or with friends, test your designs in online PvP, or build without limits in Creative Mode.
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Tense, Retro
94% of 12,130 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 588$19.99
Nienix: Cosmic Warfare
Search for the legendary lost artifact Nienix through galaxies in conflict! An open world space action RPG adventure that can be played both alone and together!
Also in Co-op · Replayable, Fast-paced, Tense
87% of 338 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Sector Space
Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items, construct gear, level up, improve your ship, assemble a fleet, engage in combat, and take on the void.
Replayable, Retro
94% of 153 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$7.49
eXoSpace Combat Engineer
Snap together a warship in minutes, then fly it into bullet-hell boss fights. eXoSpace Combat Engineer gives you a gridless designer, pistons and hinges for transforming ships, hangars full of your own custom drones, and a galaxy of supervillains to hunt. Build it, fly it, blow it up, build it better.
Replayable, Fast-paced, Tense
87% of 182 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$14.99
Run Build Pew!
You’re being Bounty-Hunted! Run, Build your ship piece-by-piece and make it work with the parts you find, Destroy outposts and waves of fleets, and Pick your battles carefully to overcome your hunters in this Fast-Paced Top-Down Action Roguelite Shooter.
Replayable, Fast-paced, Tense
71% of 555 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Space Scavenger
Action roguelike where you build and command your own spaceships. Battle enemies, explore planets and customize your ship on the fly. Make the best use of the quirky ship modules you find, ranging from slingshots to ion cannons, to try and avoid certain death.
Replayable, Fast-paced, Tense
86% of 289 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Star Singularity
A space action-adventure unlike any other: navigate your spacecraft through a galactic-scale mystery. Make sure to loot, craft and upgrade your space fleet. Play the story campaign or test your skills in vicious arena modes against AI opponents.
Replayable, Fast-paced, Tense
76% of 68 Steam reviews are positive$14.99

Cheaper than Star Vortex

Psycho Starship Rampage

You play the psychotic A.I. of a warship lost in space which tries to come back to Earth. Build your spaceship from scratch. Load it with weapons.

$9.99

Sector Six

Sector Six is a side-scrolling, sci-fi shooter with a silhouette aesthetic, procedural loot, extensive customization, and story missions.

StarShip Constructor

Galaxy is on fire! Only you can save it! More than 20 modules and even more weapons and equipment,you can design your own spaceship and defeat the…

$4.99

Starforged Legacy

Steer a salvaged starship through waves of enemies while your weapons fire on their own, building a new combination of upgrades every run.

$7.99

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander

Design every deck and turret of a starship, crew it with simulated people, and take it into battles where damage tears your work apart piece by piece.

$19.99

Nienix: Cosmic Warfare

Search for the legendary lost artifact Nienix through galaxies in conflict!

$19.99

Sector Space

Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items…

$7.49

eXoSpace Combat Engineer

Design your own warship piece by piece, then take it into fast bullet-hell battles across a galaxy of supervillains.

$14.99

Run Build Pew!

You’re being Bounty-Hunted! Run, Build your ship piece-by-piece and make it work with the parts you find, Destroy outposts and waves of fleets, and…

$2.99

Space Scavenger

Action roguelike where you build and command your own spaceships. Battle enemies, explore planets and customize your ship on the fly.

$12.99

Star Singularity

A space action-adventure unlike any other: navigate your spacecraft through a galactic-scale mystery.

$14.99

EVERSPACE™ 2

A fast single-player space shooter with real RPG depth. Fly frantic dogfights across a handcrafted galaxy, loot better guns, solve puzzles, trade…

$9.99

Hidden gems like Star Vortex

Sector Space

Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items…

$7.49

Vanguard Galaxy

Mine, trade and fight across a procedurally generated dwarf galaxy, at your own pace or with the ECHO autopilot at the helm.

$8.99

Sublight

Sublight is a space bullet heaven roguelike where you captain a battleship through escalating waves of rebels and alien swarms.

$11.99

Starforged Legacy

Steer a salvaged starship through waves of enemies while your weapons fire on their own, building a new combination of upgrades every run.

$7.99

eXoSpace Combat Engineer

Design your own warship piece by piece, then take it into fast bullet-hell battles across a galaxy of supervillains.

$14.99

Shape Shifter: Formations

Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with…

$14.99

Void War

Command an ancient starship on a run toward the heart of a dying Empire.

$19.99

Starcom: Unknown Space

An action RPG about drifting through a hundred star systems in a ship you built yourself.

$24.99

The Last Starship

Design a working starship from the reactor up, then take it into a fresh galaxy each run as a miner, pirate hunter or anything else you fancy.

$19.99

Nova Drift

Steer a lone spacefighter through waves of enemies, shaping it into something new with every choice you make.

$8.99

Nienix: Cosmic Warfare

Search for the legendary lost artifact Nienix through galaxies in conflict!

$19.99

Jump Space

Fly, repair and fight from a living spaceship, with room for three friends or an AI crewmate at your side.

$19.99

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