Steam Deck games like Lost Wish: In the desperate world
Below are 8 Steam Deck-friendly games similar to Lost Wish: In the desperate world (6 Verified, the rest Playable), ranked by player overlap. Every pick has Valve's compat stamp — Verified means full controller support and default settings just work; Playable means a small first-launch tweak (control remap or text size) gets you there. imho.run pulls compat status straight from Valve's own endpoint, refreshed daily.
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Ranked picks
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Hollow Knight
Deck Verified alternative to Lost Wish: In the desperate world — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Lost Wish: In the desperate world.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
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Blasphemous
Deck Verified alternative to Lost Wish: In the desperate world — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Lost Wish: In the desperate world.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
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Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Deck Verified alternative to Lost Wish: In the desperate world — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Lost Wish: In the desperate world.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
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GRIME
Deck Verified alternative to Lost Wish: In the desperate world — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Lost Wish: In the desperate world.
Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.
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Hollow Knight: Silksong
Deck Verified alternative to Lost Wish: In the desperate world — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Lost Wish: In the desperate world.
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
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Minoria
Deck Verified alternative to Lost Wish: In the desperate world — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Lost Wish: In the desperate world.
Ink and blood stain the streets of Ramezia. Witches must burn and sins must be judged. Venture forth as Sister Semilla to burn down the pillars of heresy in Minoria, an action-platformer by Bombservice, creators of Momodora.
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Solateria
Deck Playable alternative to Lost Wish: In the desperate world — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Lost Wish: In the desperate world.
Solateria is a hand-drawn action Metroidvania with parry-focused combat. A small fire warrior journeys to find the Primordial Flame, the world’s last hope against the Shadow Plague. Defeat foes with stylish parries and explore mysterious realms to uncover the world’s secrets.
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Mark of the Deep
Deck Playable alternative to Lost Wish: In the desperate world — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Lost Wish: In the desperate world.
Shipwrecked on a myth-shrouded island, play as rookie pirate Marcus “Rookie” Ramsey and explore haunting biomes, face unforgiving combat, and unravel a deep-sea curse in search of your lost crew, the Angry Mermaids.