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Games like Deep Scanner

If Deep Scanner is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sector YAMA, SYNCHRONIZERS: UNDEAD MARINES and Iron Marines Invasion — 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.

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About Deep Scanner: Due to your debts, you have been sent to the BAORA9 production facility. A quiet place, if it weren't for the raids by local creatures. Will you be able to complete your work and leave BAORA9 safe and sound?

2024IndieAdventure1.99 USDWindowsby Seven Games
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Players who liked Deep Scanner also play

Steam players who put hours into Deep Scanner 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.

  1. Sector YAMA

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Deep Scanner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Scanner.

    Sci-fi military action-rts. Play as a space soldier, abandoned by the command on an alien planet. Find allies, gather resources, train new troops, and escape from Sector Yama. Casual "single-stick shooter" controls, fun tactical combat, rewarding exploration, and rich storytelling.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. SYNCHRONIZERS: UNDEAD MARINES

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Deep Scanner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Deep Scanner.

    "SYNCHRONIZERS: UNDEAD MARINES" blends high-quality Three-Lane Tower Defense with Reverse Tower Defense gameplay. Command your units in a thrilling narrative reminiscent of a StarCraft and Plants Vs. Zombies fusion! Your choices will forge the path to victory—or defeat.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. Iron Marines Invasion

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Deep Scanner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Deep Scanner.

    Prepare to take off, soldier! The galaxy needs your strategy! Prove your RTS expertise, explore an entire galaxy and defend it from a threatening invasion.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Worbital

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Deep Scanner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Deep Scanner.

    With the shifting gravity on your side, aim your cannons, blast your enemies and enjoy the fireworks. Worbital is a real-time strategic artillery game in space, peppered with a heavy dose of cosmic chaos. The goal: be the last civilization standing!

    2019ActionStrategyIndie12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Space Reign

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Deep Scanner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Deep Scanner.

    An indie space-sim and strategy game featuring ship and fleet combat mixed with RTS elements. Complete contracts and Claim sectors for your faction in the near-future, where resource exploiting corporations are in a state of constant conflict over territory control.

    2026ActionStrategyIndie15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Star Command Galaxies

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Deep Scanner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Scanner.

    Take command in the ultimate starship simulator: Star Command Galaxies. Become a Captain, recruit your crew, customize and upgrade your starship, battle alien vessels, teleport to away missions and repel boarding invaders in this real-time strategy simulation adventure from indie studio Warballoon.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Nova-111

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Deep Scanner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Scanner.

    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.

    2015ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Deep Scanner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Scanner.

    A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.

    2021IndieAdventure15.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Deep Scanner at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Deep Scanner on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Scanner.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Deep Scanner on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Deep Scanner.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Deep Scanner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deep Scanner.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Deep Scanner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deep Scanner.

    "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Deep Scanner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deep Scanner.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Bit Blaster XL

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Deep Scanner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deep Scanner.

    Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!

    2016ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Dictators:No Peace Countryballs

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Deep Scanner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deep Scanner.

    Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. TYRONE vs COPS

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Deep Scanner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deep Scanner.

    Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.

    2022ActionIndie0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deep Scanner.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Deep Scanner.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Scanner.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Scanner.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Scanner.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Scanner.

    A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Scanner.

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Worbital

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Deep Scanner.

    With the shifting gravity on your side, aim your cannons, blast your enemies and enjoy the fireworks. Worbital is a real-time strategic artillery game in space, peppered with a heavy dose of cosmic chaos. The goal: be the last civilization standing!

    2019ActionStrategyIndie12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Nova-111

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Scanner.

    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.

    2015ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Scanner.

    A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.

    2021IndieAdventure15.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Deep Scanner

How much does Deep Scanner cost?
Deep Scanner is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Deep Scanner?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deep Scanner are Sector YAMA, SYNCHRONIZERS: UNDEAD MARINES, Iron Marines Invasion.
Who developed Deep Scanner?
Deep Scanner was developed by Seven Games.

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 Deep Scanner.

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