Games like Deep Sky Derelicts
If Deep Sky Derelicts is your kind of game, the closest matches are Slay the Spire, Roguebook and Banners of Ruin — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its deck building synergies matter, atmospheric and challenging. 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 →Deep Sky Derelicts is a space-themed strategy RPG developed by Snowhound Games, released in 2018. Players explore procedurally generated derelict alien ships in a retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic, using card-based combat enhanced by class synergy and drone deployment. Tactical positioning matters significantly in these encounters, and reviewers highlight how deck-building synergies and the gear grind loop keep players engaged throughout. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and contemplative, with quirky alien dialogue adding to the mysterious tone. The game offers medium-length sessions with challenging gameplay designed for solo play. Available for $2.99, Deep Sky Derelicts holds a 72% positive rating from 1130 Steam reviews and is playable on Steam Deck.
About Deep Sky Derelicts: Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.
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Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Top pick for Deep Sky Derelicts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
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!
Roguebook
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Second-strongest match for Deep Sky Derelicts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Embrace the challenge of a roguelike deckbuilder with unique mechanics from the developers of Faeria and Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering™. Build a team of two heroes, unleash powerful combos and defeat the legends of the Roguebook!
Banners of Ruin
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Third-strongest match for Deep Sky Derelicts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Assemble your party. Answer the call. Win the war. Build a deck and fight a series of turn-based combats with up to 6 party characters through the city of Dawn's Point. Each character can unlock a set of unique cards and abilities that can augment your deck in powerful, exciting ways.
Indies' Lies
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Ranked #4 for Deep Sky Derelicts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Deep Sky Derelicts.
A roguelike deck-building game where you craft a deck, spark talents, discover runes, and assemble your team with partners' cards! Play unique stories for every character and explore a world caught in the clash of gods. New Puppeteer DLC just released!
Iris and the Giant
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Ranked #5 for Deep Sky Derelicts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Iris and The Giant is a fusion of the CCG, RPG and roguelike genres. You play as Iris, who must brave her fears in her imaginary world. Dive into a melancholic and gripping adventure, filled with cute monsters and buried memories. Ready to face your inner demons?
Yao-Guai Hunter
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Ranked #6 for Deep Sky Derelicts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Yao-Guai Hunter is a Wuxia roguelike deck-building game. In a world where Yao-Guai roam free, player battles with various evil beings, collecting cards and learn inner skills. Encountering various adventures in the martial world.
Monster Slayers
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a contemplative mood with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Ranked #7 for Deep Sky Derelicts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Monster Slayers is a rogue-like deck-building RPG adventure. Create a hero and choose your path through the perilous Northern Valley as you battle to become a true Monster Slayer.
Gordian Quest
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Ranked #8 for Deep Sky Derelicts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
An epic deckbuilding RPG inspired by old-school classics like Ultima and D&D, using modern gaming concepts like roguelite elements and turnbased strategic combat. Lead and nurture parties of heroes. Forge bonds and discover new skills among them. Guide them to unravel the curses laid upon the lands.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Deep Sky Derelicts
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Darkest Dungeon®
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and procedural generation with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Reviewers of Deep Sky Derelicts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Nowhere Prophet
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Reviewers of Deep Sky Derelicts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Prepare your decks and go on a pilgrimage through the wasteland! Nowhere Prophet is a unique single-player card game. Travel across randomly generated maps and lead your followers in deep tactical combat. Discover new cards and build your deck as you explore this strange, broken world.
Quasimorph
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Deep Sky Derelicts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based cyberpunk RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Deep Sky Derelicts at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Deep Sky Derelicts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Deep Sky Derelicts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Deep Sky Derelicts on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Deep Sky Derelicts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Deep Sky Derelicts on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Deep Sky Derelicts.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Deep Sky Derelicts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Deep Sky Derelicts on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Deep Sky Derelicts.
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.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Deep Sky Derelicts.
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.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
It gets so lonely here
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
A yandere yuri visual novel with a fairytale theme. Can you escape from your mysterious pursuer?
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
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!
Iris and the Giant
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Iris and The Giant is a fusion of the CCG, RPG and roguelike genres. You play as Iris, who must brave her fears in her imaginary world. Dive into a melancholic and gripping adventure, filled with cute monsters and buried memories. Ready to face your inner demons?
Gordian Quest
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Deep Sky Derelicts.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Sky Derelicts.
An epic deckbuilding RPG inspired by old-school classics like Ultima and D&D, using modern gaming concepts like roguelite elements and turnbased strategic combat. Lead and nurture parties of heroes. Forge bonds and discover new skills among them. Guide them to unravel the curses laid upon the lands.
Frequently asked about Deep Sky Derelicts
- Does Deep Sky Derelicts run on Steam Deck?
- Deep Sky Derelicts is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Deep Sky Derelicts cost?
- Deep Sky Derelicts is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Deep Sky Derelicts?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deep Sky Derelicts are Slay the Spire, Roguebook, Banners of Ruin.
- Who developed Deep Sky Derelicts?
- Deep Sky Derelicts was developed by Snowhound Games and published by Fulqrum Publishing.
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