Games like Deadnaut: Signal Lost
If Deadnaut: Signal Lost is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rogue Fable IV, Approaching Infinity and Templar Battleforce — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and mysterious. 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 Deadnaut: Signal Lost: Deadnaut: Signal Lost is a sci-fi horror turn-based roguelike where loyalty isn't earned - it's installed. Scavenge derelict ships and abandoned moons filled with hellish creatures, brutal AI and insanity storms. Gather gear and upgrades to fight or evade the hi-tech supersoldiers hunting you down.
Players who liked Deadnaut: Signal Lost also play
Steam players who put hours into Deadnaut: Signal Lost also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Rogue Fable IV
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Top pick for Deadnaut: Signal Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Storm the lair of the immortal wizard Yendor in this fast paced, turn based, traditional rogue-like. The massive scope, deep mechanics and challenging gameplay that define the genre distilled into dense and highly varied one hour runs.
Approaching Infinity
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Second-strongest match for Deadnaut: Signal Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Approaching Infinity is a turn-based space RPG in the spirit of the sci-fi classics, with endless progression and exploration. Fight tactical battles or use diplomacy. Seek powerful artifacts. Quest, mine, trade, and craft. Level up forever or attempt 10 victories in hardcore or adventure mode.
Templar Battleforce
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Third-strongest match for Deadnaut: Signal Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
An addictive mix of strategic combat and army building, with the precision of an RPG. Design your squad members' exact build of equipment and talents to create unique fireteam combinations. Step into the pilot suit of a Leviathan mech, lead the Templar Knights in turn-based tactical warfare.
Inkbound
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Ranked #4 for Deadnaut: Signal Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
A turn-based tactical roguelike from the creators of Monster Train. Play solo or co-op, create powerful builds, and save the Atheneum.
Sword of the Stars: The Pit
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Ranked #5 for Deadnaut: Signal Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
A fun, fast, light-hearted, turn-based RPG, where the tradition of old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe!
Caves of Qud
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Ranked #6 for Deadnaut: Signal Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
Nova-111
WHY THIS
Shares grid based movement and an atmospheric mood with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Ranked #7 for Deadnaut: Signal Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Pilot your trusty orange vessel in this quirky sci-fi strategy game that cleverly mixes turn-based and real-time gameplay. Your mission: fix space-time and recover all the scientists lost in the aftermath of the Universe's Greatest Science Experiment.
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Deadnaut: Signal Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Deadnaut: Signal Lost at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Deadnaut: Signal Lost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Deadnaut: Signal Lost on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
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 ~47% under Deadnaut: Signal Lost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Deadnaut: Signal Lost on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Priced ~58% under Deadnaut: Signal Lost on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Deadnaut: Signal Lost on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Deadnaut: Signal Lost on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Deadnaut: Signal Lost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
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 Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
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.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Screwfly Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Screwfly Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Zafehouse: Diaries
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Another title from Screwfly Studios, the studio behind Deadnaut: Signal Lost. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Stuck in a remote, abandoned town, you must lead five survivors with conflicting motivations, fragile relationships and fiery prejudices to safety from the roving undead. A sophisticated engine generates new survivors, towns and content so every adventure is a different experience, and you can use built-in editors to add yourself and...
Zafehouse Diaries 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Another title from Screwfly Studios, the studio behind Deadnaut: Signal Lost. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Zafehouse Diaries 2 is a game of survival, exploration and relationships. Every hour, designate tasks for your handful of characters - each with their own skills, motivations and prejudices - and try to outlast the zombie apocalypse.
Deadnaut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Another title from Screwfly Studios, the studio behind Deadnaut: Signal Lost. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Deadnaut is Screwfly Studios' second game and follow up to cult hit, Zafehouse: Diaries. Deadnauts, so named because they’re unlikely to return, must explore, investigate and fight their way through the derelict ships of dead civilisations. Every mission is unique and no two locations are the same.
Fear Equation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Another title from Screwfly Studios, the studio behind Deadnaut: Signal Lost. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Fear Equation is a turn-based horror strategy game where you play the engineer of a modified freight train, built to protect its occupants from a deadly fog that brings their nightmares to life. Survival depends on analysing passengers' dreams, crafting defenses, upgrading, scavenging and resource management.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Caves of Qud
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
Nova-111
WHY THIS
Shares grid based movement and an atmospheric mood with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Pilot your trusty orange vessel in this quirky sci-fi strategy game that cleverly mixes turn-based and real-time gameplay. Your mission: fix space-time and recover all the scientists lost in the aftermath of the Universe's Greatest Science Experiment.
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
Frequently asked about Deadnaut: Signal Lost
- Does Deadnaut: Signal Lost work on Steam Deck?
- Deadnaut: Signal Lost is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Deadnaut: Signal Lost cost?
- Deadnaut: Signal Lost is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Deadnaut: Signal Lost?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deadnaut: Signal Lost are Rogue Fable IV, Approaching Infinity, Templar Battleforce.
- Who developed Deadnaut: Signal Lost?
- Deadnaut: Signal Lost was developed by Screwfly Studios.
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