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Star Shelter

2018

Should you play it?

Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.

What works

  • Immersive zero-g locomotion
  • Deep survival and crafting mechanics
  • Active and responsive developers
  • Engaging exploration and base building
  • High replay value

Things to keep in mind

  • Early access bugs and glitches
  • Steep learning curve
  • Lack of multiplayer/co-op
  • Some clunky controls and ui issues
  • Limited narrative depth

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Subnautica

  • Astrometica: Prologue

  • The Last Caretaker

  • Scavenger SV-4

  • DREDGE

  • Lucid Blocks

More violent

Games that feels like Star Shelter but with more combat and destruction

  • Selaco

  • System Shock® 2 (1999)

  • Vertigo Remastered

  • Walking Zombie 2

  • Sublevel Zero Redux

  • SULFUR

Less expressive

Games that feels like Star Shelter but with less self-expression and customization

  • Outer Wilds

  • Spirits of Xanadu

  • Face It - A game to fight inner demons

  • The Spotter: Dig or Die

  • Digger: Galactic Treasures

  • Eldritch

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Star Shelter. 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 Star Shelter. These titles are not in What to play next.

Star Shelter: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Leadership.

Last update: 21/08/2026