Steam Deck games like End State
Below are 9 Steam Deck-friendly games similar to End State (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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Every Day We Fight
Deck Verified alternative to End State — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with End State.
Caught in a time loop, your band of resistance fighters is humanity’s last hope. Real-time exploration meets turn-based tactics and roguelite strategy as you learn new abilities, seek out new weapons, and develop new techniques to overcome the mysterious alien threat.
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Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
Deck Verified alternative to End State — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with End State.
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!
- 3
The Last Spell
Deck Verified alternative to End State — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with End State.
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.
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Tactical Breach Wizards
Deck Verified alternative to End State — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with End State.
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.
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Lost Eidolons
Deck Verified alternative to End State — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with End State.
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.
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Gears Tactics
Deck Playable alternative to End State — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with End State.
Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.
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Jagged Alliance 3
Deck Playable alternative to End State — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with End State.
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.
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7 Days to Die
Deck Verified alternative to End State — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with End State.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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XCOM® 2
Deck Playable alternative to End State — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with End State.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.