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Lead a three-person scavenger crew through derelict alien ships, balancing life-support energy and gear-driven card battles for loot.
Released 26 Sep 2018
Build a Scavenger Crew
Explore Abandoned Ships
Budget Life-Support Energy
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.
Developed by Snowhound Games · Published by Fulqrum Publishing









In a dystopian future divided between privileged citizens and stateless outcasts, you lead a crew of mercenaries searching abandoned alien ships for a fabled derelict that could earn them citizenship.
Explore ship maps, reveal nearby areas with a scanner, and search for loot, clues, contracts, and encounters. Movement and other actions consume life-support energy, so each expedition involves weighing how far to push before returning to the crew’s base.
Battles are turn-based, with each character drawing combat actions shaped by their class and equipped gear. Between expeditions, heal and level up the crew, recruit mercenaries, trade, and improve equipment and base facilities. The game includes story and arena modes.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its comic-book visuals and sci-fi atmosphere, as well as its turn-based card combat and the options for developing characters through classes, skills, and equipment. Some also enjoy planning expeditions around limited energy and uncovering combinations between crew members and gear. Reactions are mixed: reviewers frequently describe later expeditions as repetitive, and some find the difficulty, loot management, or mechanics frustrating.

In a grim dystopian future, where mankind has scattered across the galaxy and the human society has split into two distinct classes, you are a poor stateless outcast forced to live off scraps from derelict alien stations and ships in the outer space, yet you dream of becoming a privileged citizen and living on the surface of a habitable planet, enjoying non-synthetic air, water and food. A fabled alien derelict ship somewhere within the Deep Sky sector of space is your voucher for a citizenship and a promise of cozy life on a hospitable planet.
Build and control a squad of up to three mercenary characters and set on to explore derelict ships within your reach from the scavenger's base. Searching the derelicts for loot and clues, you come across many friendly inhabitants and traders, but more often – various enemies. Challenge and defeat them in tactical turn-based fights, where randomly-drawn cards form your changing arsenal of combat actions, gain experience for yourself and your crew, loot dead bodies, resupply and upgrade once back at your base. The scavenger's home ship gives you the opportunity to heal and level-up your mercenaries, recruit new ones, equip them, upgrade their gear or recharge energy for life support during missions.
Fresh take on turn-based combat with cards
Refined sci-fi comic book look & feel
Endless customization options for characters and scavenging teams
High replay value thanks to procedural generation of content
Story of the human society divided within a dystopian universe
Two game modes: story and arena




| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 68 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 70/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |