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Garan Lorn · 2026 · Windows, Linux

Steam: 83 % positive of 217 reviews, as of Oct 28

A dream among the stars — or a nightmare. 1,000 colonists in the dark between stars. Every pragmatic decision rewrites who they are. Discover what your choices mean for humanity, for better or worse.

24 games that play like Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game, RimWorld and The Fermi Paradox.

Player tags

  • Colony Sim
  • Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Choices Matter
  • Story Rich
  • Multiple Endings
  • Space
  • Strategy
  • Simulation
Map region: Space & Sci-Fi
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Best matches

Plays and looks like Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Ostranauts76 % positive of 3,217Shared: Choices Matter · Space · Simulation
  2. Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™60 % positive of 14,066Shared: Space · Strategy · Simulation
  3. Star Trek: Resurgence88 % positive of 3,186Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter · Story Rich
  4. The Invincible86 % positive of 10,484Shared: Choices Matter · Story Rich · Multiple Endings
  5. Stranded: Alien Dawn83 % positive of 9,786Shared: Colony Sim · Choices Matter · Space
  6. Approaching Infinity94 % positive of 734Shared: Multiple Endings · Space · Strategy
  7. Lightracer Spark83 % positive of 977Shared: Story Rich · Multiple Endings · Space
  8. The Pale Beyond90 % positive of 1,914Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter · Story Rich
  9. The Expanse: A Telltale Series76 % positive of 2,410Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter · Story Rich
  10. ENDLESS Space™ - Definitive Edition78 % positive of 6,632Shared: Space · Strategy · Simulation
  11. Out There: Ω Edition75 % positive of 1,360Shared: Story Rich · Space · Strategy
  12. Tharsis71 % positive of 1,439Shared: Space · Strategy · Sci-fi

By look

Looks like Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. NEBULOUS: Fleet Command80 % positive of 4,109
  2. Starcom: Unknown Space91 % positive of 4,497
  3. Hardspace: Shipbreaker89 % positive of 19,537
  4. Duskers89 % positive of 2,316
  5. Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector91 % positive of 2,405
  6. Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown77 % positive of 4,249
  7. ERA ONE87 % positive of 1,611
  8. Star Traders: Frontiers82 % positive of 3,686
  9. Approaching Infinity94 % positive of 734
  10. X4: Foundations79 % positive of 25,510
  11. ENDLESS Space™ - Definitive Edition78 % positive of 6,632
  12. Polaris Sector70 % positive of 420

At a glance

What games like Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift: Space (16 of 24), Choices Matter (12) and Story Rich (12).
  • They came out between 2012 and 2026, none of them after Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift (2026).
  • Best rated by Steam players: RimWorld (97 % positive of 210,869).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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