Games like Space Scum
If Space Scum is your kind of game, the closest matches are Battle Brothers, The Last Spell and Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Space Scum: Lead a band of mercenaries through battle after battle in this Sci-Fi, turn-based RPG. Fight your way across different planets, earning loot and equipment to outfit your team – and remember, no option is off the table when survival is on the line.
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Steam players who put hours into Space Scum 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.
Battle Brothers
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Top pick for Space Scum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Space Scum.
Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.
The Last Spell
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Second-strongest match for Space Scum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Space Scum.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
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Third-strongest match for Space Scum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Space Scum.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Lost Eidolons
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Ranked #4 for Space Scum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Space Scum.
Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
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Ranked #5 for Space Scum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Space Scum.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION)
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Ranked #6 for Space Scum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Space Scum.
A retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling. Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition is a massively enhanced version of the Award Winning indie strategy RPG, Halcyon 6.
Jagged Alliance 3
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Ranked #7 for Space Scum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Space Scum.
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
Tactics Ogre: Reborn
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Ranked #8 for Space Scum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Space Scum.
Tactics Ogre, crown jewel of the tactical role-playing genre, is reborn! Based on the 2010 release, the game features improved graphics and sound, as well as updated game design, bringing to life a new Tactics Ogre that remains true to its roots.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Lab
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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!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with Space Scum.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Space Scum.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Last Spell
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Space Scum.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Space Scum.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Lost Eidolons
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Space Scum.
Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Space Scum.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.
Tactics Ogre: Reborn
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares RPG with Space Scum.
Tactics Ogre, crown jewel of the tactical role-playing genre, is reborn! Based on the 2010 release, the game features improved graphics and sound, as well as updated game design, bringing to life a new Tactics Ogre that remains true to its roots.
Frequently asked about Space Scum
- What games are most similar to Space Scum?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Space Scum are Battle Brothers, The Last Spell, Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark.
- Who developed Space Scum?
- Space Scum was developed by Sole Survivor Games and published by Forklift Interactive.
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 Space Scum.
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