Games like Stardeus

The closest matches to Stardeus: Space Haven, Ostranauts, The Last Starship, Oxygen Not Included, and Stranded: Alien Dawn. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.

If Stardeus is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space Haven, Ostranauts and The Last Starship — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as bleak, challenging and contemplative, and single out its body part management and brain transplant surgery. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

Stardeus is a challenging space colony simulation released in Early Access in 2022, set aboard a damaged starship where drones work to save hibernating human survivors. Published by Paradox Arc and developed by Kodo Linija, the game tasks players with managing complex production chains and crew survival on a massive scale. Procedural crew behavior creates unpredictable scenarios, while body-part management directly impacts both survival and combat effectiveness, and brain transplant surgery offers a macabre method to revive fallen crew members. Players describe the tone as bleak, dark, and contemplative, with cannibalism becoming a grim core survival strategy when resources grow scarce. Salvaging derelict ships provides rewarding moments of discovery. Verified for Steam Deck, the game holds an 89% positive rating from over 1,000 Steam reviews.

About Stardeus: Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.