Games like Starlight Drifter

Hooked on the romantic and hand-drawn side of Starlight Drifter? These games could fill that gap nicely.

A Long Journey to an Uncertain End
Explore the known and unknown galaxy with a ragtag crew of eclectic new friends in this narrative management space opera. You are a sentient spaceship, an outlawed commodity, and there's an entire galaxy between you and freedom…not to mention your abusive ex on your tail.
Romantic, Hand-drawn, Replayable
76% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Starstruck Vagabond
A space captain accidentally freezes themselves for two thousand years, finding themselves in an unfamiliar galaxy. Fortunately, there's always someone who needs cargo delivered.
Replayable, Colorful, Story-driven
86% of 563 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
The Captain
In this retro-inspired adventure game you will have to race back home across the galaxy. Collect new friends on your journey. Make new enemies. You won't be able to save everyone. Who will you leave behind? Which civilizations will you save - or destroy - along the way?
Replayable, Colorful, Story-driven
92% of 308 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Solar Echoes: The Star Legation
Solar Echoes: The Star Legation is a choice-driven cinematic Sci-Fi Visual Novel game with RPG elements. Journey through space to gather and manage an alien crew, visit new worlds, negotiate with alien leaders, and even risk romance across the stars!
Romantic, Hand-drawn, Replayable
86% of 7 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Between the Stars
Take the helm of an interstellar cruiser and cross a procedurally generated galaxy to save the Republic. Real-time capital ship battles, a crew to hire and level up, hundreds of text events with lasting consequences, and a story that pulls you along. Every warp jump brings a new decision, and some of them sting.
Replayable, Story-driven
75% of 1,983 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$29.99
Life of a Space Force Captain
Live a full life in the future as a human, an alien, or even a robot as you rise through the ranks to become captain of your very own starship.
Romantic, Replayable, Story-driven
85% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Crypterion
Crypterion is an open-world visual novel in a distant future where anyone can rise to power—including you. As a new arrival in the Rimshot system, you are free to forge your own destiny, conquering space by mastery of trade, politics, celebrity status through galactic TV or... Other means.
Also in Visual novel · Romantic, Hand-drawn, Replayable
97% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Sky Caravan
Welcome to the Skyways, caravaneer. Complete missions, manage your ship’s resources and make tough decisions to keep your crew alive and happy. Or not. Choices have lasting consequences in this Text-Based RPG. You are the captain - and the clouds are waiting!
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Replayable, Story-driven
98% of 46 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Spend ten years growing up on an alien planet in a story-rich RPG where your memories become cards and your choices shape your friends, your colony and your own ending. Fall in love, make mistakes, die, and live it all again with everything you remember.
Also in Visual novel · Romantic, Hand-drawn, Replayable
96% of 4,511 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$24.99
Andromeda Six
Andromeda Six is a sci-fi inspired visual novel, with romance elements and an immersive, choice based story. Take on the role of a lost Traveler and uncover the truth of your past. Fight for a future for both yourself, and those you grow close to throughout your journey.
Also in Visual novel · Romantic, Hand-drawn, Replayable
96% of 103 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$14.99
The Away Team: Lost Exodus
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.
Replayable, Story-driven
73% of 101 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Star Story: The Horizon Escape
Join the journey of a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet. A text turn-based adventure RPG in which your choices actually matter. Talk, explore, fight, make decisions to find a way out! Colourful graphics and the old comic book spirit.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Replayable, Colorful
89% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$14.99

Cheaper than Starlight Drifter

Solar Echoes: The Star Legation

Solar Echoes: The Star Legation is a choice-driven cinematic Sci-Fi Visual Novel game with RPG elements.

$14.99

Life of a Space Force Captain

Live a full life in the future as a human, an alien, or even a robot as you rise through the ranks to become captain of your very own starship.

$6.99

Crypterion

Crypterion is an open-world visual novel in a distant future where anyone can rise to power—including you.

$12.99

Sky Caravan

Welcome to the Skyways, caravaneer. Complete missions, manage your ship’s resources and make tough decisions to keep your crew alive and happy.

$9.99

Andromeda Six

Andromeda Six is a sci-fi inspired visual novel, with romance elements and an immersive, choice based story.

$14.99

Star Story: The Horizon Escape

Join the journey of a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet.

$14.99

Save the Universe, Please!

Take command of the crew of the ESS Shyp, explore planets, and deal with friendship, betrayal and maybe love! It's up to you to Save the Universe!

$2.99

Star Merc

Star Merc is an open world rpg where player choices heavily affect outcomes and drastically change the storyline.

$1.99

Pegasus-5: Gone Astray

You are a new recruit aboard a trade ship, set to make a standard route. However, things go wrong and the ship gets lost in space.

$6.99

Light Years Apart

A rollicking adventure with pirates, spies, and snarky computers. Trade, sneak, and talk your way past a planetary blockade before it’s too late!

$5.99

Star-Crosst

Earth has just survived a decade of war against an invading alien species, and the younger generation has been given an opportunity to restart their…

$9.99

Stellaren II

A space sci-fi visual novel in post-apocalyptic worldCombines a unique visual novel experience with multiple mini-games!

$3.99

Hidden gems like Starlight Drifter

Andromeda Six

Andromeda Six is a sci-fi inspired visual novel, with romance elements and an immersive, choice based story.

$14.99

Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog

Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.

$14.99

Lightracer: For Judge

In a dystopian future, as The Judge with immense power, you journey through space to find hope in a divided society.

$7.99

Starcom: Unknown Space

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

$24.99

Starstruck Vagabond

A space captain accidentally freezes themselves for two thousand years, finding themselves in an unfamiliar galaxy.

$19.99

Arcadia Fallen

Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit.

$24.99

Gilded Shadows

A GxB visual novel that explores a whimsical, yet dangerous world which blends the solarpunk and cyberpunk aesthetics into a unique adventure.

$29.99

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

A decade of choices, friendships and first love on a strange planet, lived again and again with every memory intact.

$24.99

The Captain

In this retro-inspired adventure game you will have to race back home across the galaxy. Collect new friends on your journey. Make new enemies.

$19.99

Star Valor

Mine, trade, hunt bounties or go pirate in a procedurally generated galaxy that plays out differently every time.

$24.99

//TODO: today

A visual novel about figuring out life with the help of an AI.

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Between the Stars

Captain an interstellar cruiser across a procedural galaxy, fighting real-time battles and living with the consequences of your choices.

$29.99

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