Games like Startide

Remember how fast-paced and replayable Startide felt at its best? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.

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 · Fast-paced, Replayable, Retro
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.
Fast-paced, Replayable, Tense
93% of 222 Steam reviews are positive$8
Galaxy Highways
An indie story-driven space shooter with intense battles, escalating enemy waves, and massive boss fights. Choose and upgrade ships, unlock powerful weapons, and protect your allies. Upgrade your base and construct a battleship to take on even stronger enemies. All set to a rock & synth soundtrack.
Fast-paced, Replayable, Retro
95% of 62 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Space Pirates and Zombies
Fly a growing pirate fleet through a procedurally generated galaxy of hundreds of star systems, blowing up ships, looting parts and building better ones. Physics-driven top-down combat, RPG upgrades and a zombie plague that spreads while you play. Every run is a new galaxy, and every battle can turn on one order.
Fast-paced, Replayable, Retro
91% of 2,239 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$9.99
Mech Havoc
Rogue AI HIVE has taken the planet, and you answer with steel. Pick anything from a weaponized delivery truck to a towering heavy mech, bolt on lasers, railguns, or missile barrages, then flatten killer robots across destructible deserts, frozen wastes, and cities.
Fast-paced, Replayable, Retro
96% of 867 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$9.99
Particle Fleet: Emergence
Design your own fleet and throw it at the Particulate, a space-filling enemy driven by real physics instead of scripts. Ships get chewed apart piece by piece and patch themselves up again. A tense, replayable RTS with a campaign, a random map generator and editors for ships and maps.
Replayable, Retro, Tense
92% of 1,203 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 42$14.99
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, Retro, Tense
94% of 12,130 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 588$19.99
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.
Fast-paced, Replayable, Retro
87% of 182 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$14.99
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!
Fast-paced, Replayable, Tense
65% of 249 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Power of Ten
Fly a star-fighter against a bloodthirsty armada. Gather weapons, resources, and upgrades to help you push back the relentless assault while protecting the galaxies' civilians!
Fast-paced, Replayable, Retro
79% of 247 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$11.99
Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax
Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax is a fast-paced couch co-op action shooter with SHMUP/Brawler gameplay and RPG elements. Choose your mechs, weapons & upgrades then soar through space, defeat evil & save the future... from itself!
Also in Co-op · Fast-paced, Replayable, Retro
91% of 186 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Galactic Outlaws
"Galactic Outlaws" is a side-scrolling space shooter where you lead an elite squad on high-risk missions. Customize and upgrade unique ships, master devastating weapons, and battle waves of enemies in a galaxy plunged into chaos. Victory depends on your strategy and skill!
Fast-paced, Replayable, Retro
95% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$8.99

Cheaper than Startide

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

Galactic Outlaws

"Galactic Outlaws" is a side-scrolling space shooter where you lead an elite squad on high-risk missions.

$8.99

Warmada

Build your own capital ship and fight other player's creations in a procedural galaxy!

$4.99

Brigador: Up-Armored Edition

Drive a mech through a cyberpunk city where nothing you shoot stays standing, and cash in the rubble.

$6.49

Event Horizon

Take command of a space fleet and start your galaxy exploration mission.

$5.99

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

Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages

Ring Runner combines the fast-paced action of space combat with the rich story and skill variety of an RPG.Trek across the universe in a 30 hour…

$4.99

Space Battlecruiser

Space Battlecruiser is an arcade style, top down space shooter where you control a heavily armed capital ship.

$4.99

Miner Gun Builder

The game is an light-hearted version of an arcade space shooter but has substantial depth regarding the mechanics.

$7.99

Armed to the Gears

Control a fully armed Mech and fight through cyberpunk cities, military bases and industrial ruins.

$4.99

Neon Striker

Configure the weaponry on your ship to blast away enemies as you navigate through swarms of bullets and space battles.

$4.99

Hidden gems like Startide

Mech Havoc

Rogue AI HIVE has taken the planet, and you answer with steel.

$9.99

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

Star Vortex

Star Vortex is a fast-paced Action-RPG inspired by classics of the genre.

$24.99

Drop Command

Run a sandbox campaign, drop into any battle, and pilot a mech, tank, VTOL or power-armoured soldier through fully destructible battlefields.

$22.99

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

Mech Armada

Create and command custom Mechs to outmaneuver The Swarm in this post-apocalyptic tactical turn-based rogue-lite.

$19.99

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