Games like The Expanse: A Telltale Series
If The Expanse: A Telltale Series is your kind of game, the closest matches are Star Trek: Resurgence, The Walking Dead: The Final Season and Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, emotional and choice consequence. 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 →The Expanse: A Telltale Series is a narrative adventure RPG developed by Deck Nine and published by Telltale, set in the science fiction universe of the popular TV series. Released in 2023 for $24.99, it emphasizes interactive storytelling and choice-consequence mechanics with full voice acting, letting players take on the role of Camina Drummer navigating the dangerous edges of the Belt. Reviewers describe the experience as atmospheric and emotional, with players highlighting that it captures the spirit of the television series. Designed for solo play with a relaxed difficulty, the game suits short, sit-down sessions and runs on Steam Deck. It holds a 74% positive rating from 1543 Steam reviews.
About The Expanse: A Telltale Series: Take on the role of Camina Drummer and explore the dangerous, uncharted edges of the Belt. From scavenging wrecked ships in a zero-g environment, to combating fearsome pirates, you make the difficult choices in this latest Telltale adventure. All five episodes playable at launch!
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Star Trek: Resurgence
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Top pick for The Expanse: A Telltale Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Authentic Star Trek adventure from former members of Telltale Games. Engage in diplomacy, pilot shuttlecraft, and use your tricorder and phaser to overcome challenging puzzles and deadly threats. Tough decisions will impact relationships, your story, and the fate of the galaxy. What will YOU do?
The Walking Dead: The Final Season
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Second-strongest match for The Expanse: A Telltale Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
A secluded school might finally be Clementine’s chance for a home, but protecting it will mean sacrifice.
Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Third-strongest match for The Expanse: A Telltale Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Play as 3 vampires, wield their powers wisely, and strike the right balance between your human and animal side in a heart-pounding story in which your choices will decide the fate of Boston.
The Outer Worlds 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Expanse: A Telltale Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
The Outer Worlds 2 is the sequel to the award-winning first-person sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Ranked #5 for The Expanse: A Telltale Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.
Angels with Scaly Wings™ / 鱗羽の天使
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Ranked #6 for The Expanse: A Telltale Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
You, the player, are an ambassador for Earth sent through a mysterious portal into the world of dragons. Explore a town full of secrets and the people who keep them in this compelling sci-fi visual novel with slice of life and dating sim elements.
Twin Mirror
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Ranked #7 for The Expanse: A Telltale Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
The small town of Basswood will be changed forever by ex-investigative journalist Sam Higgs in this thrilling narrative experience from award-winning studio DON'T NOD. Will you find the truth – no matter the cost?
Life is Strange: Double Exposure
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Expanse: A Telltale Series fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive - and still in danger! With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
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Shares an emotional mood with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Reviewers of The Expanse: A Telltale Series cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
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.
Lord of the Rings: War in the North
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Expanse: A Telltale Series cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Work together or die alone in this epic quest to turn the tides in the War of the Ring.
The Walking Dead
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Reviewers of The Expanse: A Telltale Series cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
The Wolf Among Us
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Reviewers of The Expanse: A Telltale Series cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
Tales from the Borderlands
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Reviewers of The Expanse: A Telltale Series cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
New Tales from the Borderlands
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Expanse: A Telltale Series cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Decide the fates of altruistic scientist Anu, her ambitious, "streetwise" brother Octavio, and the fierce, frogurt-slinging Fran. Claw and con your way through five thrilling chapters!
Mass Effect (2007)
WHY THIS
Shares choice consequence and an emotional mood with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Reviewers of The Expanse: A Telltale Series cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
The Expanse
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Expanse: A Telltale Series cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
You and your team are elite killers. Its your job to help defend and protect earth and inform us of your findings. The South East Spaceport have reported nightmareish zombies. The most unsettling thing is that people have changed and will not stop eating each other.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Expanse: A Telltale Series at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Expanse: A Telltale Series on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Expanse: A Telltale Series on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Expanse: A Telltale Series on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Expanse: A Telltale Series on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Expanse: A Telltale Series on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under The Expanse: A Telltale Series on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under The Expanse: A Telltale Series on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from Deck Nine
Other recommendable Steam games by Deck Nine, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Another title from Deck Nine, the studio behind The Expanse: A Telltale Series. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.
Life is Strange: True Colors
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Another title from Deck Nine, the studio behind The Expanse: A Telltale Series. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Life is Strange Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares choice consequence, interactive storytelling and an emotional mood with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Another title from Deck Nine, the studio behind The Expanse: A Telltale Series. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Another title from Deck Nine, the studio behind The Expanse: A Telltale Series. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm returns with remastered visuals across characters & environments.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Walking Dead: The Final Season
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
A secluded school might finally be Clementine’s chance for a home, but protecting it will mean sacrifice.
The Outer Worlds 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
The Outer Worlds 2 is the sequel to the award-winning first-person sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment.
Twin Mirror
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
The small town of Basswood will be changed forever by ex-investigative journalist Sam Higgs in this thrilling narrative experience from award-winning studio DON'T NOD. Will you find the truth – no matter the cost?
Frequently asked about The Expanse: A Telltale Series
- Does The Expanse: A Telltale Series run on Steam Deck?
- The Expanse: A Telltale Series 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 The Expanse: A Telltale Series cost?
- The Expanse: A Telltale Series is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Expanse: A Telltale Series?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Expanse: A Telltale Series are Star Trek: Resurgence, The Walking Dead: The Final Season, Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong.
- Who developed The Expanse: A Telltale Series?
- The Expanse: A Telltale Series was developed by Deck Nine and published by Telltale.
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