Shooting Stars! similar games & best alternatives

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Shooting Stars!

Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac • 2016

Should you play it?

This game is the answer to one of the most important questions in life: “I can haz lazer kitty?“ Yes you can!

What works

  • Fun and addictive gameplay
  • Humorous parody content
  • Colorful pixel art and effects
  • Variety of power-ups and bosses
  • Accessible controls with mouse, keyboard, or gamepad

Things to keep in mind

  • Short overall length
  • Some repetitiveness after extended play
  • Randomness can cause uneven difficulty
  • Lack of multiplayer or cooperative modes
  • Some achievements and features buggy or unsupported

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Void Invaders

  • Danmaku Unlimited 2

  • Graze Counter

  • Grind Survivors

  • Seraph's Last Stand

  • ESCHATOS

Less competitive

Games that feels like Shooting Stars! but with less competition against others

  • Dungeon Souls

  • Star of Providence

  • Project Starship

  • Beat Da Beat

  • Neon Abyss

  • DRAINUS

More exploratory

Games that feels like Shooting Stars! but with more exploration of areas and secrets

  • Lone Fungus

  • Everhood 2

  • Skelly Selest

  • Titan Attacks!

  • BLUE REVOLVER

  • DRACOMATON

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Shooting Stars!. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Shooting Stars!. These titles are not in What to play next.

Shooting Stars!: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Story, Fantasy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Fantasy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Exploration.

Last update: 21/08/2026