StarBreak similar games & best alternatives

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StarBreak

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2016

Should you play it?

StarBreak is a unique skill-based action platformer MMO where you explore strange sci-fi worlds alongside dozens of other players, kill legions of dangerous aliens and fight epic boss battles.

What works

  • Challenging and skill-based gameplay
  • Unique permadeath mmo platformer concept
  • Free-to-play with no pay-to-win
  • Strong cooperative multiplayer experience
  • Addictive progression and loot system

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited content and updates
  • Small free inventory/storage space
  • Lack of party/friend systems in-game
  • Steep learning curve may frustrate new players
  • Cosmetics lost on death

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Spelunky 2

  • 20XX

  • GUNTOUCHABLES

  • Full Mojo Rampage

  • Tallowmere 2: Curse of the Kittens

  • Vagante

More relaxing

Games that feels like StarBreak but with a more relaxing feel

  • Terraria

  • Core Keeper

  • Bounty of One

  • 9th Dawn III

  • Chronicon

  • Born Again

Less competitive

Games that feels like StarBreak but with less competition against others

  • Roguelands

  • Caveblazers

  • Risk of Rain (2013)

  • Hammerwatch

  • Metaverse Keeper / 元能失控

  • Rampage Knights

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Similarity map

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

StarBreak: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation, Story.

Last update: 21/08/2026