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2024PC, Steam Deck playable84 % positive19.99 €

A turn-based tactical survival game set in a space prison, where you fight, craft, trade and build relationships with convicts while climbing the gang ranks to plan your escape.

Resources and survival
Turn-based combat
Runs that play out differently every time
Pixel art

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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Space Prison special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Cogmind

86 %Match

2017PC, Steam Deck playable95 % positive24.50 €

A turn-based sci-fi roguelike where you play a robot that constantly rebuilds itself from parts scavenged off other machines. Every choice in loadout, tactics and hacking matters, and no run plays the same.

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FTL: Faster Than Light

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Mainframe Defenders

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X-COM: Terror From the Deep

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Resources and survival

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