Choose Alien Life Lab
Choose Alien Life Lab if you want an Action and Adventure experience. On Steam, it's the newer release (2022) and ships with the modern feature baseline. Alien Life Lab launched in 2022.
Alien Life Lab vs Deported: Drain the Swamp
Alien Life Lab and Deported: Drain the Swamp both land in Indie on Steam, which is why they keep getting compared. The comparison below is built from each game's Steam metadata — release year, genres, categories, Steam Deck status, price, and review score — refreshed daily by imho.run's scraper. Headline differences: Both are Indie games on Steam. Deported: Drain the Swamp (2018) is 4 years older than Alien Life Lab (2022). Deported: Drain the Swamp is currently ~80% cheaper on Steam than Alien Life Lab (0.99 USD vs. 4.99 USD). No login or purchase needed — scroll for the full table, the verdict FAQ, and links to ranked similar games for both titles.
Which should you pick?
Choose Deported: Drain the Swamp
Choose Deported: Drain the Swamp if it's currently about 80% cheaper on the Steam Store. Deported: Drain the Swamp launched in 2018.
Both Alien Life Lab and Deported: Drain the Swamp sit in Indie on Steam, so either pick lands in the same broad neighborhood. Use the side-by-side table for the feature view, or follow the "Games like" links below to see ranked alternatives for either title.
Side-by-side comparison
 Alien Life Lab |  Deported: Drain the Swamp | |
|---|---|---|
| Released | 2022 | 2018 |
| Genres | Action, Indie, Adventure | Indie |
| Platforms | Windows | Windows |
| Steam Deck | Unrated | Unrated |
| Price | 4.99 USD | 0.99 USD |
| Steam reviews | 1 reviews | 86.8% positive (53 reviews) |
| Multiplayer | Single-player only | Single-player only |
| Developers | Justin K. Touchstone | Crankage Games |
Side by side
- Both are Indie games on Steam.
- Deported: Drain the Swamp (2018) is 4 years older than Alien Life Lab (2022).
- Deported: Drain the Swamp is currently ~80% cheaper on Steam than Alien Life Lab (0.99 USD vs. 4.99 USD).
Alien Life Lab vs Deported: Drain the Swamp — FAQ
- Should I play Alien Life Lab or Deported: Drain the Swamp first?
- If you want chronology, Deported: Drain the Swamp (2018) came out before Alien Life Lab (2022). If neither is a sequel to the other, order doesn't really matter — start with whichever fits your current mood, since both share enough on Steam to make either a reasonable opener.
- Are Alien Life Lab and Deported: Drain the Swamp similar?
- They overlap on Indie on Steam, so the catalogue groups them together — but "similar" depends on the specific mechanics. Use the genre + category rows above to decide whether the overlap matches what drew you to the one you've already played.