Games like Catastronauts
by Inertia Game Studios
Can you deal with unrelenting disaster and hold your ship together long enough to destroy the enemy invaders? Repair systems, extinguish fires, arm the torpedoes, avoid deadly solar flares, destroy your friends and clone them back again; it's all in the life of a Catastronaut!
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$6.99ROCKETSROCKETSROCKETS
May 1 · Radial Games Corp, Loren Bednar, Dr. Kimberly Voll, Lindsay Jorgensen
Both: Local Multiplayer · Local Co-Op · 4 Player Local
ROCKETS fire ROCKETS at ROCKETS in this action-arcade, arena-combat, gorgeous festival-of-fireworks! It's dogfighting meets figure-skating in space with local multiplayer and single-player fast-paced action modes plus a ZEN MODE where ROCKETS learn to LOVE.
IndieActionCasualLocal MultiplayerSportsStrategyLocal Co-OpMultiplayerArcade4 Player Local👍 316
FreeBattletronics
Aug 21 · Kristopher Werlinder
Both: Co-op · 4 Player Local · Local Co-Op
Free-for-all (2-4 players) top-down shooter game available for free. An epic arena battleground featuring a unique blend of powerups and arena environments.
MultiplayerCo-opFamily Friendly4 Player Local2DActionLocal Co-OpLocal MultiplayerStrategyArena Shooter
FreeTo Your Stations!
Jul 1 · Orbital Contingent
Both: Local Co-Op · Co-op · Local Multiplayer
To Your Stations! is a couch co-op spaceship management game where up to four players work together to crew a spaceship. Coordinate the torpedoes, lasers, and shields of your ship to fight off asteroids, aliens, and other deep space entities.
Local Co-OpActionCo-opCasualLocal MultiplayerMultiplayerIndieSingleplayerArcadeThird Person
$9.99Shipped
Mar 28 · Majorariatto
Both: Local Multiplayer · 4 Player Local
Challenge your friends in a naval battle of steering, pushing and shooting. Keep your ship on-screen and avoid crashing with land to survive. Up to 8 players. Or tackle the single-player challenges alone!
Local Multiplayer4 Player LocalMultiplayerNaval CombatNavalPiratesSailingCompetitiveCasualArcade👍 584
$11.99STARWHAL
Sep 29 · Breakfall
Both: Local Multiplayer · 4 Player Local
The local multi-player space narwhal fighting game that has rocked the internet is finally ready for its big debut in a fully loaded release! Flop it out with 1-4 players in a retro, epic narwhal battle in space! The heart-piercing action is furious and unrelenting. STARWHAL will change your life.
Local MultiplayerIndieFunnyMultiplayerCasualActionSportsArcadeSpace4 Player Local👍 496
$19.99D-Corp
Sep 20 · Frogsong Studios
Both: Local Co-Op · Co-op · Local Multiplayer
D-Corp is a couch multiplayer game for up to 4 players. Co-operate on tasks such as turret maintenance and harvesting natural resources while being under continuous attack by alien cacti! Whack your friends in the versus mode.
Co-op CampaignLocal Co-OpCo-opActionLocal MultiplayerCasualCuteRobotsAliensSci-fi
$19.99This Means Warp
May 4 · Outlier
Both: Co-op · Local Multiplayer
It’s co-op space survival fun, Jim, but not as we know it. This Means Warp is an intense spaceship management roguelite experience for 1-4 players. Explore a procedurally generated universe, upgrade your ship, battle dangerous enemies and adapt your strategies to survive in a hostile galaxy.
SurvivalOnline Co-OpSpaceCo-opMultiplayerTop-DownSci-fiLocal MultiplayerRogueliteCo-op Campaign👍 438
$7.99Skyhook
May 17 · Megastorm Games
Both: 4 Player Local · Co-op · Local Co-Op
Fight with grappling hooks in this party brawler for one to four players. Play as a treasure hunting cat or a land swimming shark as you swing around the stage taking out your opponents.
2D FighterFightingPlatformer2DPixel GraphicsPiratesRetro4 Player LocalCo-opLocal Co-Op👍 109
$4.99Traxion 2
Jun 2 · Play With Fire UG
Both: Local Co-Op · Local Multiplayer
TRAXION 2 is a cave-flyer with single-player, two-player local co-op, and deathmatch modes. Explore alien caves, battle enemies, and tow crystals to the surface with your tractor beam before your fuel runs out.
PhysicsAdventureLocal Co-OpSpaceExplorationCombatLocal MultiplayerActionShooterUnderground
$4.99Brotato
Jun 23 · Blobfish
Both: Local Co-Op
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
RoguelikeSingleplayerBullet HellAction RoguelikeLocal Co-OpBullet HeavenMultiplayerSurvivalArena ShooterSci-fi👍 111,472
$0.99Rocket Wars
Jun 15 · Rooftop Panda
Both: 4 Player Local · Local Multiplayer
Fast-paced local multi-player game packed with action. Destroy your friends with all sorts of different weapons and power-ups across multiple game modes!
4 Player LocalParty GameLocal MultiplayerController2DShoot 'Em UpArena ShooterTop-Down ShooterArcadeAction
$3.99Stardust Vanguards
Jan 30 · Zanrai Interactive
Both: 4 Player Local · Local Multiplayer
STARDUST VANGUARDS is a local four-player dueling game combining arcade-style battling with the ability to summon your own NPC army as support! But be careful: a random event system dynamically alters the flow of battle with NPC space pirates gunning for victory themselves!
4 Player Local2D FighterLocal MultiplayerPvPBullet HellArcadeCombatActionHack and SlashCompetitive
$1.99Watchlist
Jul 6 · Fletcher's Games
Both: Local Co-Op · 4 Player Local
Accused of committing a crime affecting the nation's security, you are now tasked with tracking down various undesirables in order to redeem yourself in the eyes of the powers that be. Blast through procedurally generated levels and complete the Watchlist in this retro arcade shooter!
RoguelikeTwin Stick ShooterLocal Co-OpRetroShoot 'Em UpAdventureIndieActionPixel Graphics4 Player Local
$4.99Revolution Ace
Mar 19 · Laser Guided Games, LLC
Both: Local Co-Op
A deep, tactical shoot'em up. With every takedown, you’ll earn cash and xp to upgrade your ship and unlock new abilities. Online and local co-op. Unique versus mode. Realistic physics and water simulation.
Shoot 'Em UpActionIndieBullet HellShooterLocal Co-OpArcadeMultiplayerTop-DownSingleplayer👍 1,476
$14.99Flying Tank
Dec 6 · Hexage
Both: Local Co-Op · Co-op
Get into your Flying Tank and shoot 'em up like it's the good old days! Kill strange bosses, drop bombs from above and build an arsenal of fun, powerful weapons. Reclaim the stolen Earth - alone or with a friend - in a rich action-packed side-scrolling shmup!
Side ScrollerLocal Co-OpCo-opBullet HellHand-drawnAnimePost-apocalypticDystopian ActionBullet Time
$3.99Procyon
Feb 26 · Deadly Red Cube
Both: Local Co-Op
It's the future! And humanity is, predictably, under attack by extraterrestrial forces. Lucky for us we have an experimental ship that's never before been flown that will surely...uh, possibly...well, implausibly be able to win the war! All we need now is a pilot or two.
Shoot 'Em UpActionIndieBullet HellShooterLocal Co-OpSide ScrollerSci-fi
$1.99Disputed Space
Dec 7 · ShilohGames
Both: Local Co-Op · Co-op
Experience epic space battles while piloting a small, fast fighter ship as part of a fleet that lashes out against enemy factions across stunning procedurally generated star systems in Disputed Space.
ActionIndieShooterSpaceArcadeLocal Co-OpCo-opSci-fiFirst-PersonTwin Stick Shooter
$24.99Risk of Rain 2
Aug 11 · Hopoo Games
Both: Co-op
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
Third-Person ShooterAction RoguelikeMultiplayerCo-opRoguelikeRogueliteActionLooter ShooterLootOnline Co-Op👍 240,052
$19.99PULSAR: Lost Colony
Jun 22 · Leafy Games
Both: Co-op
The co-op open-world space sim where everyone has a role! Pilot the ship. Reroute power. Launch nukes. Explore alien planets. Research new talents. Work together to find the Lost Colony! ...or just deliver some biscuits
Space SimOpen WorldCo-opSimulationFirst-PersonPvESpaceExplorationSci-fiMultiplayer👍 4,409
FreeAirBuccaneers
· LudoCraft Ltd.
Both: Co-op
Welcome to the ancient North, once the cradle of culture and peace, but is now corrupted by magic and inhabited by nasty bandits sowing destruction in airships.Choose to be a vicious Buccaneer or an infamous Viking and take a glider to the skies. Your goal is to drop enemy vessels and secure dominance of the ancient North.
IndieActionFree to PlayStrategyRPGMultiplayerTeam-BasedFirst-PersonCo-opPirates👍 183
FreeQuintet
May 11 · Carmine T. Guida
Both: Co-op
A cooperative, cross-platform, multiplayer scifi game where players control the same ship through 5 roles — Captain, Helm, Tactical, Engineering & Science. Battle with other player crews over the Internet.
Free to PlayIndieActionSpaceMultiplayerCo-opSci-fi
$24.99Void Crew
Nov 25 · Hutlihut Games
Both: Co-op
Void Crew is a Chaotic, Co-op Roguelite game for 1 to 6 players: Outfit your spaceship and crew for thrilling quests, brave fierce enemies in Space Battles... and try not to panic!
Co-opSpace SimMultiplayerRoguelitePvECharacter CustomizationAdventureFirst-PersonSpaceSimulation👍 6,577
$4.99Star Escape
May 22 · Ampersand Game Studios
Both: 4 Player Local
Intense competitive infinite jumping in space action! Catapult from planet to planet, and use gravity to slingshot your way past danger and across the universe. Continue onwards and upwards, but most importantly, move faster than everyone else!
Competitive4 Player LocalBullet HellPlatformerDifficult2DPvPSide ScrollerSingleplayerSpace
$14.99Tempest: Pirate Action RPG
Aug 22 · HeroCraft
Both: Co-op
Tempest is a Pirate Open World Action RPG where you rove the seas across three continents filled with dozens of colonies and forts, hundreds of quests and countless ships to plunder. Customize your ship, trade, challenge fellow pirates and face mythical monsters such as the Kraken and Leviathan!
PiratesActionNavalRPGOpen WorldAction RPGMultiplayerIndieSingleplayerCo-op👍 1,778
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Share some of the same DNA, but further from the original.
$24.99Starship EVO
Jun 19 · Moonfire Entertainment
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
IndieActionSimulationBuildingSpaceAdventureSandboxSci-fiOpen WorldEarly Access👍 1,322
$4.99Fly and Destroy
Jul 29 · EGAMER
Fly and destroy is a space arcade unlike anything you've experienced before. It combines extremely fun game mechanics with breath taking visuals. The game itself has elements of almost every popular indie genre, but probably the most fitting would be the space bullet hell.
CasualActionIndieStrategyAdventureSpace👍 151
Sol Survivor
Mar 15 · Cadenza Interactive
Both: Co-op
Jump in to intense turret defense action with Sol Survivor! Build turrets to defend your colony and the innocent colonists within. Smash enemies with volleys of actively-controlled orbital support. Play with friends in co-operative and competitive multiplayer matches or test your mettle against our new Survival mode!
Tower DefenseStrategyIndieCo-opSci-fiMultiplayerSingleplayerAddictiveSurvival👍 317
$19.99Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
Oct 24 · Walternate Realities
Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!
Sci-fiSingleplayerBuildingSpace2DIndieStrategySpace SimExplorationMultiplayer👍 12,019
$14.99Particle Fleet: Emergence
Sep 29 · Knuckle Cracker
Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.
StrategyIndieSimulationSpaceRTSReal-Time with PauseSci-fi2DSingleplayerPixel Graphics👍 1,198






