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2026PCSteam Deck verified76 % positive20.49 €

An extremely detailed spaceship ownership and living sim set in the NEO Scavenger universe. You captain a ship through a dystopian solar system, scraping together fuel, food and money while fending off debt, with grounded physics and survival systems.

  • Post-apocalyptic setting
  • Resources and survival
  • Deep systems to master
  • Open world
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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

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2013PCSteam Deck playable85 % positive19.50 €

Brings what grabs you about Ostranauts: a post-apocalyptic setting, scarce resources and survival as well as a sandbox with your own goals.

An enormously deep open-source survival roguelike in a post-apocalyptic New England where you juggle hunger, illness and zombies, build vehicles and shelters, and carve out your own goals with no fixed objective.

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The Last Caretaker

Post-apocalyptic setting

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Stardeus

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As an immortal AI you rebuild a wrecked spaceship in a colony-sim style, automating production and deciding how to treat the human survivors. It blends base building, resource management and exploration in space.

Forever Skies

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You live and build aboard an airship above an ecologically ruined Earth, descending into toxic ruins to scavenge resources, upgrade your craft and uncover the mystery behind a deadly illness.

Planet Crafter

Open world

You terraform a hostile planet by gathering resources, building bases and machines, and watching a barren wasteland slowly gain atmosphere, water and life. The blend of calm survival and visible, large-scale progress is what makes it special.

Dwarf Fortress

Deep systems to master

An immensely deep simulation where you build and manage a dwarven fortress or roam a procedurally generated, persistent world as an adventurer. Its interlocking systems produce chaotic, memorable stories, though the learning curve is notoriously steep.

The Wandering Village

Post-apocalyptic setting

You build and manage a village on the back of a giant wandering creature and nurture a bond with it as you travel together through a post-apocalyptic world. City-building, resource management and survival meet a painterly, atmospheric setting.

DinoSystem

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A 2D survival and ecosystem simulator where you live as a human on an evolving island and influence its ecology alongside dinosaurs. Realistic survival mechanics and a deep progression system are central.

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