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Games like Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift

If Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift is your kind of game, the closest matches are 夕照原, Study Abroad Sim and Company Captain: Westashes — 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 Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift: A dream among the stars — or a nightmare. 1,000 colonists in the dark between stars. Every pragmatic decision rewrites who they are. Discover what your choices mean for humanity, for better or worse.

2026StrategyIndieSimulationEarly Access12.74 USDWindows · Linuxby Garan Lorn
Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift — Steam game cover

Players who liked Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift also play

Steam players who put hours into Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift 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. 夕照原

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    《夕照原》是一款另类的殖民地建设游戏,作为一名普通市民,你无法操纵他人,只能依靠自己的努力,去创造影响。 但请相信,城市不会辜负于你。

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Study Abroad Sim

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    A life simulation game inspired by the real experiences of international students. Study, survive, pay rent, manage your mental health, and build your life in foreign cities across the world.

    IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  3. Company Captain: Westashes

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    Command a mercenary Free Company in a brutal, dynamic medieval world. Navigate the overworld, manage your roster, and fight unforgiving hex-grid tactical battles where factions and characters remember your actions and every mercenary's death is permanent... or not...

    StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  4. MoonShot

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    You're a NASA intern working on the Apollo 11 project.  Each day, you have a checklist to complete.  Your tasks are well-reasoned and appropriate to your skill level as an intern.  The Apollo team are all competent professionals.  Everything goes very well, and you have no difficulties at all.  😛

    2025IndieAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Purrfect Galaxies

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    Purrfect Galaxies is a text-based strategy game. As the ruler of the planet Cataris, hungry cats await your decisions. Will you let your meowpurrlation bask in catnip bliss, or will they unsheathe their claws and seal your doom?

    2028StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. The Fermi Paradox

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    The Fermi Paradox is a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another. Guide species through millennia and help them explore the vastness of space, make contact and, perhaps, create harmony.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation18.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Surviving Mars: Relaunched

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.

    2025StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown is a story-driven survival strategy game in which the fate of the iconic starship is in your hands. Take the helm, manage the ship and resources, and make difficult decisions. Will you be able to bring home the ship and its crew?

    2026StrategyIndie34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~61% under Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~61% under Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~45% under Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~41% under Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~61% under Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~61% under Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    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 ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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 ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  5. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. A Date with Death

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift

How much does Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift cost?
Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift is listed on Steam at 12.74 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift are 夕照原, Study Abroad Sim, Company Captain: Westashes.
Who developed Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift?
Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift was developed by Garan Lorn and published by Selenodrome.

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 Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.

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