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2018PCSteam Deck playable94 % positive22.99 €

You run a secret company that studies dangerous anomalies, balancing employees, energy and containment. Every mistake triggers a chain of disasters, while a deep and unsettling story unfolds behind the grim corporate routine.

Dread and tension
Economy and management
Deep systems to master
Dark, serious atmosphere

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The closest matches for Lobotomy Corporation are FTL: Faster Than Light, Tharsis and Duskers. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Lobotomy Corporation special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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FTL: Faster Than Light

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2012PCSteam Deck playable95 % positive9.99 €

Economy and management
Deep systems to master
A party of several characters

You captain a starship on the run, rerouting power, directing crew and making tough calls in pausable real-time battles. Every run is procedurally generated, brutally tense and often ends in glorious failure.

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Tharsis

Dread and tension

Tharsis is a punishing space survival strategy game about the first manned mission to Mars. You assign dice to crew tasks as disasters, starvation and creeping madness close in, making every turn a tense gamble between luck and planning.

Duskers

Dread and tension

You guide a squad of drones through derelict spaceships using a command line, relying only on sensors and limited camera feeds. Its roguelike survival structure and oppressive atmosphere keep tension high.

Symmetry

A party of several characters

You lead a stranded research crew on a frozen alien planet, balancing resources, morale and the mental health of the survivors. It's a bleak survival management game with a story focus and tough decisions under pressure.

Quasimorph

Dread and tension

A punishing turn-based extraction roguelike set in grim sci-fi horror: you send clone after clone of a mercenary into infested ships to loot and survive, while managing your own vessel between runs.

The Shrouded Isle

Dread and tension

You lead a Lovecraftian cult, managing a village, choosing sacrifices and balancing the favor of five families. Every decision is morally grim, and the management turns into a tricky deduction puzzle.

Crying Suns

Sci-fi setting

As a fleet commander you cross a collapsed star empire in a roguelite built around tactical, pausable space battles. Each run reveals more of a story in the vein of Dune and Foundation.

Void War

A party of several characters

You command an ancient starship across a dying empire, fending off cultists, pirates and imperial soldiers while upgrading your vessel with found artifacts. It is a pixel-art roguelike with a grim science-fiction mood.

Terra Invicta

Tactical depth

A deep grand-strategy sim about an alien invasion: you lead one of seven human factions, take over nations on Earth, expand across the Solar System, and fight tactical space battles.

Phoenix Point

A party of several characters

A turn-based tactics game in the XCOM tradition where you lead a resistance organization against mutating alien horrors. It stands out for its free-aim shooting with targetable body parts, faction diplomacy on the world map, and enemies that evolve in response to your tactics.