Games Like Space Farmers

Explore a neon galaxy in your very own battleship in this 1- to 4-player couch co-op adventure.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 27.3%, Co-op 25.6%, Space 17.5%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Action 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the frantic, coordinated teamwork required to pilot a ship through space with friends.

Shotgun Farmers is the multplayer shooter where missed shots grow guns. Fire your bullets into the ground to plant your ammo. The longer a gun plant grows the more ammo you will get!

Why similar: Co-op 30.8%, Multiplayer 19.5%, Action 15.6%, Online Co-Op 15.6%, Shooter 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer shooter shares the same funny, lighthearted tone and unique weapon mechanics found in Space Farmers.

Strategy co-op online multiplayer game about living on a spaceship with your roommates. You'll need to generate resources, take care of a deadly alien infestation, upgrade your appliances and build your sustainable space home. Living together is never easy, especially when you are in outer space!

Why similar: Co-op 33.5%, Local Co-Op 18.8%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Indie 13.2%, Space 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic co-op game that focuses on managing a space station with friends, mirroring the cooperative maintenance tasks of the seed game.

From Space is a solo and co-op action-shooter for squads up to four players. Take on the challenge of liberating the earth from an alien infestation with your friends, using over-the-top weaponry in a post-apocalyptic world with awesomely stylized graphics. The apocalypse has never been so much fun!

Why similar: Co-op 35.2%, Online Co-Op 18.5%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Action 13.8%, Indie 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down shooter emphasizes cooperative play and chaotic combat against alien threats in a sci-fi setting.

HELLDIVERS™ is a hardcore, cooperative, twin stick shooter. As part of the elite unit called the HELLDIVERS, players must work together to protect SUPER EARTH and defeat the enemies of mankind in an intense intergalactic war.

Why similar: Co-op 34.1%, Online Co-Op 18.9%, Local Co-Op 18.2%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Action 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly intense, top-down co-op shooter experience set in a humorous and chaotic space environment.

Fueled Up is a chaotic couch co-op spaceship recovery game for up to four players. You and your crewmates must fuel, fix and rescue damaged spaceships before the evil space octopus gets its tentacles on them!

Why similar: Co-op 23.8%, Local Co-Op 18.2%, Space 16.8%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Multiplayer 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A chaotic co-op game about repairing ships under pressure, which mirrors the frantic energy of space-based cooperative tasks.

Hypercharge is a first and third-person shooter action figure game you've always dreamed of! Grab your friends, complete objectives, defend the Hypercore against waves of weaponized toys, and defeat Major Evil together in the story campaign!

Why similar: Local Co-Op 43.6%, Online Co-Op 30.5%, Shooter 15%, Action 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This wave-based co-op shooter offers a similar blend of action and strategy in a stylized, imaginative environment.

It came from space and ate our brains is a unique Arcade top-down shooter. Looking for addicting gameplay, four-player co-op mode, and tons of aliens to send into oblivion? You’ve come to the right place!

Why similar: Local Co-Op 55.7%, Action 23.4%, Shooter 20.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down arcade shooter that captures the space-themed action and cooperative survival elements of the seed game.

Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.

Why similar: Co-op 25.5%, Online Co-Op 17.4%, Local Co-Op 17.1%, Action 15.9%, Indie 15.8%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D co-op action game that features challenging space-themed combat and requires strong team coordination.

Shift Happens is a cooperative platformer for two. You and a friend shift your mass, throw each other and puzzle your way through four stages of stylized imaginary worlds. Including the occasional backstabbing and taunting. Play with a friend on a couch, online or even special singleplayer levels.

Why similar: Co-op 32.1%, Local Co-Op 22%, Online Co-Op 16.1%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Indie 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer built entirely around co-op mechanics that require constant communication and shared movement.

Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.

Why similar: Co-op 38.1%, Local Co-Op 16.6%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Action 8%

Why You'll Like It: It matches the humorous, platforming-heavy co-op gameplay and quirky art style of Space Farmers.

Grab a buddy for this chaotic couch co-op delight. Use various tools and equipment to assemble the most efficient conveyor belts to keep the goods flowing! Best played in 2-player couch coop.

Why similar: Co-op 33.4%, Local Co-Op 25.7%, Multiplayer 21.3%, Indie 9.9%, Puzzle 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on chaotic logistics and cooperative problem-solving that feels very similar to the frantic pace of Space Farmers.

Command destructive spaceships to obliterate hordes of enemy vessels, while quickly solving puzzles to weave through networks of vibrantly colorful, adversarial machines!

Why similar: Space 22.7%, Action 19.7%, Local Co-Op 17.1%, Indie 16.2%, Co-op 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed shoot-em-up that blends puzzle elements with fast-paced action for a cooperative experience.

Annihilate an evil penguin regime in this cinematic platform adventure game offering full solo and co-op campaigns.

Why similar: Co-op 24.1%, Local Co-Op 19.6%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Action 10.8%, Multiplayer 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A cinematic action-platformer with a space-themed narrative and cooperative gameplay elements.

Hyperdrive Massacre is an 80s inspired arcade fragfest in Spacewar sauce designed around local multiplayer, focused on kinestetics, tactical and shooting skills at a frenzied pace.

Why similar: Action 77%, Space 6.3%, Co-op 5.4%, Indie 4.7%, Local Co-Op 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: An arcade-style space action game that emphasizes local multiplayer chaos and competitive fun.

Use your power, show your might! Play this Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game! AWESOMENAUTS combines 2D platforming with team-based strategy and hero based action. Whether you are a new recruit or an intergalactic legend, play AWESOMENAUTS!

Why similar: Co-op 22.7%, Multiplayer 20.8%, Local Co-Op 18.9%, Action 12.8%, Indie 10%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D MOBA that features space-themed characters and fast-paced action suitable for cooperative play.

Join the Galactic Tournament in this fast-paced comical action shooter. Level-up your Hero and unlock an arsenal of weapons. Lay waste to your friends and foes in local, LAN and online multiplayer matches, or hone your skills in single player and custom games.

Why similar: Action 27.3%, Online Co-Op 25.4%, Multiplayer 24.2%, Indie 23.1%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer shooter that focuses on fast, chaotic combat in a stylized environment.

The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

Why similar: Co-op 58%, Action 22.8%, Puzzle 19.2%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for cooperative puzzle-solving, offering a humorous tone and mechanics that require deep team synergy.

The 2D side-scrolling shooter from The Behemoth is back! With your mighty blaster and a group of mysterious kids by your side, destroy the agency and reclaim your spaceship!

Why similar: Local Co-Op 32.2%, Co-op 29.2%, Action 20.9%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Indie 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic, humorous 2D shooter that emphasizes chaotic co-op action and quirky alien-themed gameplay.

Chompy Chomp Chomp is a game where people of all ages, tastes and skills can play together, and enjoy themselves on a level playing field. Play with your friends/kids/boss/gran, lose your inhibitions, shout and scream and generally have an awesome time.

Why similar: Indie 37.6%, Action 34.1%, Local Co-Op 28.3%

Why You'll Like It: A chaotic local multiplayer game that captures the silly, fast-paced energy of Space Farmers.

BFF or Die is a cozy/crazy couch co-op puzzle-action game for one to four players. As time traveling aliens you’re sent on a risky rescue mission to Earth! Use your gadgets collaboratively to overcome danger and survive as a team.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 35.4%, Co-op 33.8%, Action 17.6%, Puzzle 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging co-op puzzle game that requires players to work together to survive in a sci-fi environment.

Broforce is an action-packed side-scrolling run ‘n’ gun ode to freedom, putting you in control of an under-funded, overpowered paramilitary organization dealing exclusively in excessive force.

Why similar: Co-op 34.9%, Local Co-Op 22.9%, Action 15.7%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Indie 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides high-octane, humorous co-op action that matches the over-the-top energy of the seed game.

Polarity takes it to the next level, demanding all of your wits and reflexes. Full-featured local co-op campaign.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 32.6%, Puzzle 23.5%, Indie 15.8%, Co-op 12.5%, Action 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person puzzle game that features co-op mechanics and a sleek, sci-fi aesthetic.

Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons… it’s time to save the world again!

Why similar: Co-op 26.6%, Local Co-Op 26.5%, Online Co-Op 19.2%, Multiplayer 18.4%, Indie 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: While not space-themed, it is the ultimate test of cooperative communication and chaotic task management.

Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.

Why similar: Co-op 42.1%, Multiplayer 17.4%, Action 13.9%, Local Co-Op 11.2%, Puzzle 11%

Why You'll Like It: The physics-based, clumsy movement and puzzle-solving create a hilarious co-op experience similar to the absurdity of Space Farmers.

Take to the stars and smuggle, shoot, scavenge and steal your way to wealth and glory! Cashtronauts is fast-paced space capitalism at its finest. How are you going to make your millions?

Why similar: Action 30.6%, Indie 25%, Space 25%, Local Co-Op 19.5%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed action game that focuses on 4-player local chaos and arcade-style gameplay.

If you love retro games, this is for you! Get ready for some intense retro space shooting!

Why similar: Space 31.9%, Local Co-Op 28.3%, Action 16.8%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Shooter 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-inspired space shooter that offers simple, arcade-style action for cooperative play.

Venture together with your friends on an unknown planet. Use color switching, match-3 shooting, and artifact powers to overcome challenges and keep advancing. What lies ahead of you is an adventure filled with wonder, hope, and much more to discover!

Why similar: Co-op 46.6%, Local Co-Op 14.8%, Puzzle 11.7%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.5%

Classic STG game Have fun with your friends just like your childhood!

Why similar: Local Co-Op 50.5%, Co-op 25.9%, Action 14.5%, Multiplayer 6.5%, Shooter 2.5%

Play a wild mix of fun party games as the action regularly switches back and forth between games. Can you handle the switcheroo chaos? Join your friends both on the couch and online while sadistically laughing at their misfortune, or come back to haunt them if you die...

Why similar: Local Co-Op 49.6%, Multiplayer 30.1%, Action 20.3%

Why You'll Like It: A party game filled with minigames that require quick reactions and cooperative chaos.

Dish out carnage of hellish proportions in Gunnheim, a top-down co-op shooter where the equation is simple: Vikings + Guns = Mayhem!

Why similar: Co-op 33.1%, Action 20.9%, Indie 17.2%, Local Co-Op 14.9%, Online Co-Op 9%

Why You'll Like It: A violent, action-packed co-op shooter that shares the indie, arcade-like feel of the seed game.

A non-shooting shoot 'em up where you must grow, make friends, and survive together.

Why similar: Co-op 66.3%, Action 17.8%, Indie 15.9%

Why You'll Like It: A unique bullet-hell co-op game that relies on teamwork to survive increasingly chaotic space encounters.

Enter the futuristic year of 1984, an age where ducks run wild in a frantic battle for glory. Blast your friends with Shotguns, Net Guns, Mind Control Rays, Saxophones, Magnet Guns, and much, much more. This is DUCK GAME. Don't blink.

Why similar: Multiplayer 34.5%, Co-op 18.2%, Action 17.3%, Local Co-Op 14.4%, Indie 9.1%

Relic Hunters Zero: Remix is a remaster of the FREE 1 million player hit game about blasting evil space ducks and turtles with tiny cute guns. It’s fast, it’s tactical, and feels deliciously smooth to play. Unlock new weapons, characters and relics to defeat the Ducan Commander!

Why similar: Co-op 33.7%, Local Co-Op 16.2%, Multiplayer 15.6%, Space 15.3%, Action 13.6%

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!

Why similar: Space 32.5%, Local Co-Op 24.7%, Action 17.6%, Indie 13.7%, Shooter 11.5%

Yargis is a fast paced, top down spaceship shooter. Customize your ship to join a battle online or offline. Yargis is focused on team based, close combat action. The game has a variety of battle and co-op game modes and a powerful editor make Yargis a great game!

Why similar: Co-op 33.9%, Space 25%, Action 14.4%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Indie 12.6%

Galactic Rangers VR is a first-person space action VR game, deeply immersive, just as arcade shooter should be. Grab your pair of blasters and fight through endless waves of enemies for as long as you can!

Why similar: Co-op 31%, Space 25.6%, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Action 12.7%, Indie 9.7%

Grab a friend and try to escape from the dungeons of TRISTOY in this story-driven coop-platformer.

Why similar: Action 36.1%, Co-op 35.7%, Indie 28.1%

Bullet Hell Insanity + Tower Defense Strategy. Rogue Star Rescue is a quirky new type of rogue-like shooter. Blast your way through diverse planets while rescuing your teammates and gathering traps for your defense strategy. Play solo or online to stop the Rogue Star before it annihilates everything!

Why similar: Co-op 28.4%, Local Co-Op 28%, Online Co-Op 27.7%, Action 8.2%, Shooter 7.7%

Split Fiction meets Portal! Bytebond is an electrifying online & couch co-op puzzle game that challenges you to regain control over an infected CPU. Dive into the heart of a PC with your friend and become the ultimate Antivirus Special Forces duo.

Why similar: Co-op 30.7%, Local Co-Op 22.5%, Online Co-Op 15%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Action 11.1%

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.

Why similar: Co-op 21.1%, Action 20%, Space 19.5%, Local Co-Op 16.8%, Indie 15.9%

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!

Why similar: Action 55%, Indie 45%

Particle wars is a super cool and colorful survival shooter with crazy particle effects, tons of weapons and power-ups! Beat the levels with different approaches and get some great highscores at the infinite mode!

Why similar: Space 38%, Action 33.6%, Indie 28.4%

The party co-op shoot ’em up! Become the king of the night club! Go alone or group your friends! Shoot the party crashers down!

Why similar: Local Co-Op 32.5%, Co-op 32.2%, Multiplayer 21.4%, Shooter 14%

Pigeons Attack is a top-down shooter whose goal is to survive the pigeons hordes for as long as possible. Use upgrades and weapons placed around the level. Unlock new characters, maps and magic runes. Help fight this invasion, alone or with your friends!

Why similar: Action 27%, Indie 22.1%, Local Co-Op 21.2%, Online Co-Op 15.3%, Multiplayer 14.4%

Improvise fuel efficient trajectories to keep your rusty ship running. Break into a space station with an asteroid. Tow a sofa into a black hole. Experience the perils and intrigue of space exploration with 1-4 players.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 32.8%, Space 27.3%, Action 21.3%, Indie 18.7%

Cosmo’s Quickstop simulates the fast-paced thrill of managing a gas station… IN SPACE! Upgrade your services, please alien customers, and complete your daily chores through simple minigames that add up to a hilariously frantic experience with solo or couch co-op play.

Why similar: Space 30.1%, Co-op 28.4%, Local Co-Op 20.3%, Action 13%, Multiplayer 8.2%

Booster Trooper is the future of multiplayer platform shooters. It provides tons of fun with its fast paced action and larger-than-life weapons. You can run or fly around the map, blasting your enemies to bits with bullets, rockets, grenades, magma and other weapons from your arsenal.

Why similar: Action 48.3%, Indie 33.5%, Multiplayer 18.1%

Cut through fungal aliens in this hyper-customizable, mission based looter shooter. Hundreds of hand-crafted upgrades, 4-player co-op, and a little roach man. What’s not to love?

Why similar: Co-op 27%, Online Co-Op 20.5%, Action 19.6%, Space 16.7%, Shooter 9.4%

Get ready to push your skills to the limit against an endless sea of bullets and evil robots in Astral Gunners. Choose from five different gunners to master in this horizontal shooter. With the ability to dodge, reflect, delete, and convert bullets you are more powerful than you might believe.

Why similar: Co-op 59.8%, Action 29.1%, Shooter 11.1%

Grab a friend and get squishy! Putty Pals is the ultimate co-op platformer, challenging two players to work together and overcome puzzles in a bright and beautiful world.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 36.3%, Action 22.6%, Indie 19.4%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Puzzle 4.9%

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.

Why similar: Co-op 31.5%, Space 26.1%, Online Co-Op 17.9%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Action 10.2%

Shoot, reflect, and jetpack your way through ChargeShot -- a local-multiplayer, space-bounty-hunter, deathmatch game with a focus on fast-paced, twitch gameplay. Prove to your friends that you are the greatest warrior in the galaxy. No friends? No problem.

Why similar: Action 54.2%, Indie 45.8%

Jog! Jump! Switch! Coordinate the crazy conga line of alien athletes in this autorunner / puzzle platformer for 1-4 players.

Why similar: Co-op 27.9%, Local Co-Op 21%, Space 19.7%, Action 12.7%, Indie 10.8%

Set sail for 17th-century British Colonial Mars in Jamestown+: a cooperative shoot-em-up for 1-4 brave souls, designed to be exciting for players of all skill levels.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 35.1%, Co-op 24.1%, Action 22.4%, Indie 18.4%

Survive the treacherous sea in this quirky multiplayer shooter game! Play solo or team up and fight off Cthulhu's minions. Master a unique recoil-based mechanic to blast enemies and chart your course. Mix and match upgrades to craft the perfect sea-surviving strategy!

Why similar: Co-op 35.3%, Local Co-Op 27.6%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Shooter 6.3%

Spaceships, lasers, and… chickens! What more could you ask for?Conflicks: Revolutionary Space Battles is a creative new take on space-themed videogames that merges the deep, thoughtful gameplay of strategy games with the intuitive accessibility of physics-based games.

Why similar: Indie 22.9%, Space 22%, Action 21.8%, Co-op 21.2%, Multiplayer 12.1%

Astro Duel is a competitive local multiplayer party game. Rounds are quick and death is sudden. Blast your friends into space. Run over their helpless bodies for good measure.

Why similar: Action 31.8%, Indie 26%, Space 22%, Local Co-Op 20.2%

Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot’ em up designed to offer a challenging experience, sublimating the richness of traditional shmup classics. Face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta Lance, alone or with your friends in this game with direct action and nostalgic art.

Why similar: Action 36.2%, Co-op 32.5%, Indie 31.3%

With the shifting gravity on your side, aim your cannons, blast your enemies and enjoy the fireworks. Worbital is a real-time strategic artillery game in space, peppered with a heavy dose of cosmic chaos. The goal: be the last civilization standing!

Why similar: Co-op 23.7%, Space 18.8%, Local Co-Op 17.6%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Multiplayer 11.5%