Steam Deck games like Duty Guvnor
Below are 8 Steam Deck-friendly games similar to Duty Guvnor (6 Verified, the rest Playable), ranked by player overlap. Every pick has Valve's compat stamp — Verified means full controller support and default settings just work; Playable means a small first-launch tweak (control remap or text size) gets you there. imho.run pulls compat status straight from Valve's own endpoint, refreshed daily.
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Ranked picks
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Discounty
Deck Verified alternative to Duty Guvnor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation and RPG with Duty Guvnor.
Manage your own discount supermarket! Get caught up in small-town drama, organize and plan your shop's layout, and strike lucrative trade deals as you expand your secretive aunt's business empire. Selling more frozen fries will surely heal this broken community...right?
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Arcadia Fallen
Deck Verified alternative to Duty Guvnor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Duty Guvnor.
Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit. Suddenly drawn into a war between humanity and magic, they must join a group of unlikely heroes to escape their own doom, hopefully saving the world along the way.
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Deck Verified alternative to Duty Guvnor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Duty Guvnor.
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
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VIDEOVERSE
Deck Verified alternative to Duty Guvnor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Duty Guvnor.
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
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Strange Antiquities
Deck Verified alternative to Duty Guvnor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Duty Guvnor.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
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Back to the Dawn
Deck Verified alternative to Duty Guvnor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Duty Guvnor.
Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.
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Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
Deck Playable alternative to Duty Guvnor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Duty Guvnor.
Step into the shoes of a government official in a top-secret department of the Orwell surveillance program. Given the power to both uncover and fabricate "the truth", how far will you go in the service of your country? Season 2 of Orwell, the award-winning surveillance thriller.
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Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
Deck Playable alternative to Duty Guvnor — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Duty Guvnor.
Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.