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Steam Deck games like Keep Keepers

Below are 9 Steam Deck-friendly games similar to Keep Keepers (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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    PlateUp! — Steam game cover

    PlateUp!

    Deck Verified alternative to Keep Keepers — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Keep Keepers.

    Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!

    2022ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam DeckSimilar games →
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    ENDLESS™ Dungeon - Definitive Edition — Steam game cover

    ENDLESS™ Dungeon - Definitive Edition

    Deck Verified alternative to Keep Keepers — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Keep Keepers.

    ENDLESS™ Dungeon is a Rogue-lite Tactical Action game, set in the award-winning ENDLESS™ Universe. Recruit a team of shipwrecked heroes, plunge into a long-abandoned space station, and protect your crystal against never-ending waves of monsters… or die trying, get reloaded, and try again.

    2023ActionStrategy14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam DeckSimilar games →
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    PixelJunk™ Nom Nom Galaxy — Steam game cover

    PixelJunk™ Nom Nom Galaxy

    Deck Verified alternative to Keep Keepers — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Keep Keepers.

    Welcome to SoupCo, Astroworker! In Nom Nom Galaxy, construct and automate gigantic soup factories on unexplored planets throughout the universe, harvest flora and fauna to turn them into artisanal soups, and rocket your product into the gullets of the galaxy!

    2015ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam DeckSimilar games →
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    One Step From Eden — Steam game cover

    One Step From Eden

    Deck Verified alternative to Keep Keepers — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Keep Keepers.

    Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam DeckSimilar games →
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    Factorio — Steam game cover

    Factorio

    Deck Verified alternative to Keep Keepers — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Keep Keepers.

    Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSteam DeckSimilar games →
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    Bone's Cafe — Steam game cover

    Bone's Cafe

    Deck Playable alternative to Keep Keepers — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Keep Keepers.

    Bone's Cafe is a fast paced, 1-4 Players couch co-op, cooking game. Customize the layout of your kitchen to guarantee your success. Specialize your menu in ingredients and recipes to design your ultimate cafe. Put your necromancy skills to the test and raise your own undead kitchen staff.

    2022ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam DeckSimilar games →
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    30XX — Steam game cover

    30XX

    Deck Playable alternative to Keep Keepers — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Keep Keepers.

    Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.

    2023ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam DeckSimilar games →
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    Overcooked — Steam game cover

    Overcooked

    Deck Verified alternative to Keep Keepers — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Keep Keepers.

    Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.

    2016ActionIndieSimulation16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam DeckSimilar games →
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    Ship of Fools — Steam game cover

    Ship of Fools

    Deck Playable alternative to Keep Keepers — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Keep Keepers.

    Ship of Fools is a seafaring cooperative roguelite. Set sail, man the cannons and battle sea monsters through the tempestuous seas of the Archipelago. Are you fool enough to stop the Aquapocalypse?

    2022ActionIndie11.19 USDDeck PlayableSteam DeckSimilar games →