Games like Deep Space Exploitation
If Deep Space Exploitation is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rakete, A-Spec First Assault and Critical Descent — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, bleak and chill. 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 Deep Space Exploitation: Deep Space Exploitation is a space mining game featuring 2D physics, fully destructible asteroids, and a story of survival under an exploitative corporation. Use your equipment wisely, upgrade your ship, and make difficult decisions to secure your future!
Players who liked Deep Space Exploitation also play
Steam players who put hours into Deep Space Exploitation 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.
Rakete
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Top pick for Deep Space Exploitation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Space Exploitation.
5 thrusters, one rocket. Can you land it safely? Touch anything and you'll die. Play by yourself or with your friends locally, each player controls a thruster. Let the insanity commence!
A-Spec First Assault
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Deep Space Exploitation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Space Exploitation.
Fly corvette-class warships. Engage in combat operations against fighters, frigates, cruisers, and more dangerous foes. Choose the ships, weapons, and improvement modules, your group will deploy with. Use tactical command decisions to overcome dangerous encounters with unrelenting enemies.
Critical Descent
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Deep Space Exploitation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Deep Space Exploitation.
Master the hardcore, Starship-style catch maneuver in Critical Descent. Pilot massive boosters and agile upper stages across 50+ handcrafted levels on Earth, the Moon, and Mars. Featuring global leaderboards, multiple difficulties, and a realistic physics system, for the ultimate landing experience.
GALSAD - Galactic Salvage and Disposal
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Ranked #4 for Deep Space Exploitation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Deep Space Exploitation.
Space-based 3D flight arcade game. Blast planetary debris and mine asteroids on your way to high mission scores. Climb the leaderboard. Solo developed indie game.
5hit Rocket
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Ranked #5 for Deep Space Exploitation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Space Exploitation.
A physics-based lander about precision flying and chaos. Explore Titan’s mines, land on the Moon, deliver kebabs across space and test your relationship in 2-player “Divorce Mode” with chain-linked spacecraft.
Hardspace: Shipbreaker
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deep Space Exploitation.
Ranked #6 for Deep Space Exploitation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Deep Space Exploitation.
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
Alliance Peacefighter
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Shares physics based movement, mission based progression, story driven and an immersive mood with Deep Space Exploitation.
Ranked #7 for Deep Space Exploitation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Space Exploitation.
A linear, story-driven space sim in the style of 90s classics like X-Wing and Wing Commander. As a newly qualified Alliance pilot, you find yourself caught up in a plot to break the fragile peace between two galactic superpowers.
Rock Crusher
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Shares achievement hunting, upgrade system, indie and a chill mood with Deep Space Exploitation.
Ranked #8 for Deep Space Exploitation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Space Exploitation.
Rock Crusher is an incremental game with a massive skill tree. Control a little rock-crushing machine stranded on a mysterious planet. Crush rocks, collect materials, evolve through upgrades, uncover the planet’s secrets - and maybe, just maybe, find a way to escape.
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Papers, Please
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Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Deep Space Exploitation.
Reviewers of Deep Space Exploitation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Deep Space Exploitation.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
AsteroidsHD
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Deep Space Exploitation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Space Exploitation.
Engage in space-warfare with your friends and foes! Dodge and destroy asteroids while trying to stay alive in multiplayer! Replay value is endless with massive combinations of in-game ship upgrades, modifications, and customization. Destroy Asteroids and Aliens to gain the edge!
Hardspace: Shipbreaker
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deep Space Exploitation.
Reviewers of Deep Space Exploitation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Deep Space Exploitation.
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
Dome Keeper
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Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Deep Space Exploitation.
Reviewers of Deep Space Exploitation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Space Exploitation.
Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Deep Space Exploitation at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~44% under Deep Space Exploitation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Space Exploitation.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~44% under Deep Space Exploitation on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Space Exploitation.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Deep Space Exploitation on Steam right now. Shares Action with Deep Space Exploitation.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~44% under Deep Space Exploitation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Space Exploitation.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~44% under Deep Space Exploitation on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deep Space Exploitation.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~89% under Deep Space Exploitation on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Space Exploitation.
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
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Priced ~67% under Deep Space Exploitation on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Space Exploitation.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~44% under Deep Space Exploitation on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Space Exploitation.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Space Exploitation.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Space Exploitation.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deep Space Exploitation.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deep Space Exploitation.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Space Exploitation.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Space Exploitation.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Space Exploitation.
Play as Chelshia the chimera in this platforming beat-em-up adventure into the wonderful world of monster girls!
Wheelchair Wizards
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Space Exploitation.
Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.
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Frequently asked about Deep Space Exploitation
- Is Deep Space Exploitation verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Deep Space Exploitation is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Deep Space Exploitation cost?
- Deep Space Exploitation is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Deep Space Exploitation?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deep Space Exploitation are Rakete, A-Spec First Assault, Critical Descent.
- Who developed Deep Space Exploitation?
- Deep Space Exploitation was developed by JuhrJuhr.
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