Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! similar games & best alternatives

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Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!

Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5 • 2026

Should you play it?

Lock and load into the Starship Troopers universe and join the Mobile Infantry in the most realistic depiction of war ever made! Experience an original story in this action-packed, first-person retro shooter. Would you like to know more?

What works

  • Faithful adaptation of starship troopers universe
  • Fun and satisfying combat mechanics
  • Large open-ended mission design
  • Campy and humorous fmv cutscenes
  • Good value for fans and retro shooter enthusiasts

Things to keep in mind

  • Short overall game length
  • Limited ai teammate cooperation
  • Lack of multiplayer or co-op modes
  • Some repetitive mission objectives
  • Occasional ai and pickup mechanics issues

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Black Mesa

  • Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

  • Crysis 3 Remastered

  • Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun

  • Rogue Trooper

  • POSTAL: Brain Damaged

Less competitive

Games that feels like Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! but with less competition against others

  • Terminator: Resistance

  • Forgive Me Father 2

  • Outcast - Second Contact

  • Advent Rising

  • DOOM: The Dark Ages

  • Akimbot

More social

Games that feels like Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! but with more teamwork and cooperation

  • Borderlands 2

  • Guardians Frontline

  • Iron Brigade

  • Starship Troopers: Extermination

  • Zeno Clash 2

  • Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun

  • Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun - Words of Vengeance

  • The Colonists

  • Megaquarium

  • Mars Horizon

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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
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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 Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!. These titles are not in What to play next.

Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Competition, Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression.

Last update: 21/08/2026