Games like Duskers
If Duskers is your kind of game, the closest matches are HACKING INTO EREBUS, Hacknet and Kanji Industry — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its managing resources wisely, atmospheric 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 →Duskers from Misfits Attic, released in 2016, is a roguelike played almost entirely through a command-line interface. Players pilot drones into derelict spaceships, typing console commands to scavenge fuel and equipment, manage resources, and avoid or counter alien threats while piecing together how the universe emptied out. The strategy and simulation title carries an 83 Metacritic score and a 90% positive rating across 1,932 Steam reviews. Priced at 7.99 USD, it is a single-player game rated Playable on Steam Deck. Reviewers describe the terminal-driven approach as atmospheric and tense, and tactical positioning of drones matters when an enemy is aboard. Procedural generation means each derelict differs.
About Duskers: Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.
Players who liked Duskers also play
Steam players who put hours into Duskers 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.
HACKING INTO EREBUS
WHY THIS
Top pick for Duskers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Duskers.
Hacking Into Erebus is a terminal-based sci-fi hacking game where you remotely hack systems, manipulate the crew and uncover their secrets. Use every tool to your advantage. Extract what you need, complete the missions and uncover what’s in the Compartment Zero. Will you succeed ?
Hacknet
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Duskers.
Second-strongest match for Duskers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Duskers.
Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.
Kanji Industry
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Duskers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Duskers.
Kanji Industry is a Kanji production automation game. It is great fun to watch the production line move automatically to assemble complex kanji characters! It is also a great way to study kanji characters.
Hacky
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Duskers.
Ranked #4 for Duskers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Duskers.
The ultimate "Hollywood Hacker" simulator for when you want to look busy, dangerous, and incredibly tech-savvy.
Ratropolis
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Duskers.
Ranked #5 for Duskers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Duskers.
A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!
Comet 64
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Duskers.
Ranked #6 for Duskers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Duskers.
Comet 64 is a programming puzzle game. The year is 1984. All you got is a Comet 64 home computer and the operator's manual it came with.
Cyber Warrior
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Duskers.
Ranked #7 for Duskers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Duskers.
Cyber Warrior is a hacking simulator where you play as an ex retired bureau agent recruited back to take on a powerful criminal organization. Explore dozens of interactive desktops, navigate 200+ in-game websites, solve puzzles, customize your setup and make decisions that will shape a new cyber age
Drop Duchy
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation, resource management and a challenging mood with Duskers.
Ranked #8 for Duskers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Duskers.
Build your duchy piece by piece in this refreshing hybrid rogue-lite game. Use block-dropping mechanics to collect resources, recruit troops to fight against belligerent armies, and let every block shape your realm, leading your path to victory!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Duskers at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Duskers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Duskers.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Duskers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Duskers.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Duskers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Duskers.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Duskers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Duskers.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under Duskers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Duskers.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Duskers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Duskers.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Duskers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Duskers.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Duskers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Duskers.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Duskers.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Duskers.
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Duskers.
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.
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Duskers.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Samsara Room
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Duskers.
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Saihate Station
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Duskers.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
The Children of Clay
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Duskers.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
More from Misfits Attic
Other recommendable Steam games by Misfits Attic, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
A Virus Named TOM
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Duskers.
Another title from Misfits Attic, the studio behind Duskers. Shares Strategy and Indie with Duskers.
Hack your way through brain scrambling puzzles while maneuvering through a thumb cramping maze of enemies.
Below the Crown
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Duskers.
Another title from Misfits Attic, the studio behind Duskers. Shares Strategy and Indie with Duskers.
Explore the dungeons Below the Crown, in this love letter to Roguelikes, Dungeon Crawlers, and Chess. Prepare for strategy, game-changing spells, psychological tests, and challenges from your fellow players. From the award-winning creators of Duskers & A Virus Named TOM.
Duskers 2.0
WHY THIS
Another title from Misfits Attic, the studio behind Duskers. Shares Strategy with Duskers.
What will you sacrifice to bring humanity back? Scavenge derelict spacecraft with your drones via a command-line interface, navigating past whatever is still alive in the dark, in order to save what little of humanity is left.
StrategySteam ↗
Frequently asked about Duskers
- Does Duskers run on Steam Deck?
- Duskers 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 Duskers cost?
- Duskers is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Duskers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Duskers are HACKING INTO EREBUS, Hacknet, Kanji Industry.
- Who developed Duskers?
- Duskers was developed by Misfits Attic.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Duskers.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.