Games like Deep Despair 2
If Deep Despair 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Island Berry, Elixir of Life and The Ranchers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, bleak and challenging. 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.
Get personalized picks →About Deep Despair 2: Deep Despair 2 is an open world survival adventure action game with procedural generation and complete freedom of action: building, crafting, hunting, farming, livestock, brewing, cooking, traveling, fight, and more.
Players who liked Deep Despair 2 also play
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Island Berry
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Top pick for Deep Despair 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
Dreams can take you anywhere.
Elixir of Life
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Second-strongest match for Deep Despair 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
Fight, loot, craft equipment, collect your heroes and defeat evil! While doing all these, grow crops on your farm, feed your animals, make friends with the towns people, cook food, discover mysteries!
The Ranchers
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Third-strongest match for Deep Despair 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
The Ranchers is an open world country-life sim for 1-4 players. Raise animals, grow tasty crops, craft helpful tools and build your dream house. Explore the open world and earn the villagers' respect and esteem.
Fields of Aaru
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Ranked #4 for Deep Despair 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
A cozy life sim set in the mystical afterlife of Ancient Egypt. Farm along the Nile, befriend the locals, and decorate your eternal home. Venture into the desert and discover oases, pyramids, and tombs. Unlock magical powers by restoring ancient obelisks and making offerings to the gods.
Core Keeper
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Deep Despair 2.
Ranked #5 for Deep Despair 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
My Time at Sandrock
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Deep Despair 2.
Ranked #6 for Deep Despair 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
My Time at Portia
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Deep Despair 2.
Ranked #7 for Deep Despair 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!
Wanderlost
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Ranked #8 for Deep Despair 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
Survive then thrive in a zombie-infested world. Gather materials, craft diverse weapons and tools, build and fortify a shelter, explore a massive world filled with the secrets of a dead civilization and whatever you do: stay clear of the…
Reviewers mention these as similar to Deep Despair 2
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Terraria
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Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Deep Despair 2.
Reviewers of Deep Despair 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
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Reviewers of Deep Despair 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Minecraft Legends
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering, base building and a challenging mood with Deep Despair 2.
Reviewers of Deep Despair 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Deep Despair 2 at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under Deep Despair 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under Deep Despair 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~67% under Deep Despair 2 on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under Deep Despair 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Despair 2.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under Deep Despair 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Despair 2.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~67% under Deep Despair 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deep Despair 2.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~67% under Deep Despair 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Despair 2.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deep Despair 2.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Deep Despair 2.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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More from BekkerDev Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by BekkerDev Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Deep Despair
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Deep Despair 2.
Another title from BekkerDev Studio, the studio behind Deep Despair 2. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
Deep Despair is a Minecraft-style survival sandbox. Travel, collect resources, craft items, dig, build, grow crops and survive. Freedom of action is limited only by your imagination!
Blood Harvest 3
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Deep Despair 2.
Another title from BekkerDev Studio, the studio behind Deep Despair 2. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
Dynamic, hardcore and explosive action on the passage with a bunch of weapons, enemies and bosses.
Blood Harvest 2
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Another title from BekkerDev Studio, the studio behind Deep Despair 2. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
A HARDCORE platform game with lots of enemies, blood and explosions!
Super Blasting Boy
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Another title from BekkerDev Studio, the studio behind Deep Despair 2. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
Super Blasting Boy is a logical platform platformer made in the best traditions of retro games of the late 80's and 90's.
VVVVV
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Deep Despair 2.
Another title from BekkerDev Studio, the studio behind Deep Despair 2. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
VVVVV is a colorful, dynamic platformer action with puzzle elements, made in retro style.
Risk of Pain
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Another title from BekkerDev Studio, the studio behind Deep Despair 2. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
Risk of Pain is a hardcore puzzle platformer that challenges you to complete many challenging levels. Use parkour, wit and luck to avoid dying! Are you ready to take a risk?!
Deep Despair 3
WHY THIS
Another title from BekkerDev Studio, the studio behind Deep Despair 2. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair 2.
Deep Despair 3 is an open-world survival action-adventure with RPG elements! Fight, survive, dig, build, explore vast worlds, engage in farming, breed animals, gather resources, and level up to the max!
Frequently asked about Deep Despair 2
- Does Deep Despair 2 run on Steam Deck?
- Deep Despair 2 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Deep Despair 2 cost?
- Deep Despair 2 is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Deep Despair 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deep Despair 2 are Island Berry, Elixir of Life, The Ranchers.
- Who developed Deep Despair 2?
- Deep Despair 2 was developed by BekkerDev Studio.
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