Deep Sky Derelicts
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.
Deep Sky Derelicts is a roguelike deckbuilder, rpg and strategy game
developed by Snowhound Games
and published by Fulqrum Publishing.
Released on September 26th 2018 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 7 languages: English, Russian, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 2,660 reviews of which 1,985 were positive and 675 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.2 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 2.99€ on Steam and has a 85% discount.
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Requirements
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 / 8 / 10, 64-bit only
- Processor: Intel Core i3 or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4400
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: Yes
- Additional Notes: Minimum system requirements will allow you to play the game in FullHD / 30 fps
MacOS
- OS: macOS 10.11+
- Processor: Intel Core i3 or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: shader model 4.0 compatible
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: Yes
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04+, SteamOS+
- Processor: Intel Core i3 or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: shader model 4.0 compatible
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: Yes
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This is one of those games where you're thrown into a pretty complicated system with a clear goal and have to stumble your way through it until you learn how do it right. You enter a tile-based map, explore/loot as much as you can, suffer through turn-based combat until your team is nearly wiped out, manage to escape safely, recover your resources, buy persistent upgrades, and repeat this until the map is cleared and a harder one is available. The pacing of the game expects you to figure this out as you go. Enemies and exploration are easier at the start, but money is tight. Once you start figuring things out, completing maps becomes harder but you have more than enough money to experiment with options. Figuring out how everything worked was pretty fun, but the main interesting mechanic was how the game approaches characters and deck-building. Your characters hold equipment that you can buy or loot, which contributes to their statistics but also adds cards to their personal decks. Your characters use their cards to act in combat, but these cards scale off their stats. You must balance stat upgrades and deck thinning using randomly-generated loot gained from exploration and taking risks. Your characters also belong to certain classes and can level up to receive even more card/stat/effect choices. Starting with a team of very clumsy fools and ending with a team optimised through great ordeal was the main draw of this game for me. Though the game kept my interest enough to complete a save file, some things did test it. Some mechanics felt a little clunky to me, most disappointingly the bar where you can recruit new characters. You can have ONLY THREE characters in your team, so adding one means deleting another. In the normal game, characters can very easily be revived so you will never have an open slot through circumstance. It would have been much more interesting if character death was punished harder and if you could have more characters in your party but only take three with you when exploring. I ended up not using this mechanic at all due to its strict limitations and lack of necessity. A shame in a game where optimising a variety of characters is the main appeal. The other thing that really tested my patience was how much of the combat was built around wasting your time. Characters have a miss rate, have evasion chance, can become invisible, can become immune to attacks, can set up cover, can be taunted, can be stunned, can be confused, can be rooted into the ground, can have certain cards blocked, etc. ALL of these options are widely distributed to both the player and the enemies, meaning much of the game is balanced around everybody constantly failing to use their cards. Some fights even take place in terrain that passively makes attack even less accurate on top of all this! This was supremely annoying to me. If you already hate turn-based combat, you will loathe how it is approached here. Some miscellaneous thoughts: - The game looks very cool visually and I especially liked how the robots and armour looked. - The quests are mostly simple fetch quests but they were fine as side goals. Some characters will ramble quite a bit and I didn't really care because I was never going to see them again once I completed the fetch quests they were tied to. - The only time I felt invested in the lore was during the conversation with the final boss because he was actually somebody important and the stuff he was explaining was pretty interesting. Too bad he was way too easy to defeat, but the final map was pretty cool, I guess. - The DLCs add some neat stuff but they are not necessary to the overall vibe and progression of the game. - The achievements are pretty wack for this game, which might suck for achievement hunters. - Menus also were sometimes bugged for me, requiring restarts. Overall, this game has a fun gameplay loop and a good sense of progression. Don't give this game a "miss"! Don't "evade" this experience! This video game will leave you "stunned"! And so on...
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Beautiful, Hidden Gem Award, more people should play this game! Darkest Dungeon but it's a card game. It looks beautiful, the gameplay is deep, fun, and actually well thought through. Character building is super satysfying, exploration is thrilling, combat and combo potential is engaging. 10/10 Game, should be a global hit. An absolute steal on a +80% Sale, but worth the full price imo.
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I wouldn't use "recommend" it feels out of place for me, I would say that if you like card games you will like Deep sky Derelicts. The downside is that the carrot which is the progress isn't fulfilling (for me), I do fight other enemies and go to other places but it has the same feeling. Maybe because visually rarely anything changes.
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The game has solid mechanics, but also a lot of game-breaking bugs and a visual and auditory experience that flatlines very fast. There's a lot of room for growth and depth in the game's mechanics and audio-viz experience that just never happen. I bought this game on Steam sale for $2.99 and its worth every penny, but if I bought it at $20 I would feel either meh or mildly annoyed due to the bugs and lack of intrigue. About 25% of the time I boot the game up, it freezes and and I have to force close it while on a high end PC. There are additional bugs in-game that cause a headache. It's hard to find a great turn-based party rpg that isn't an anime JRPG with compelling art and style in the veins of Urtuk: The Desolation, Darkest Dungeon, Shadowrun or Banner Saga. This game ticked a lot of those boxes for me, with card mechanics and rogue-lite elements keeping things unpredictable. After 14 hours, I've enjoyed myself, I'm on level 5 of 10 and I still don't even see the end game in the distance, but I'm losing interest. The main reason for losing interest for me is the lack of change in what I'm experiencing. The character's stats change and the enemies change but most of the game just feels the same. Most of the game feels like a gear grind, with silly narrative and dialogue that may as well be omitted. I definitely don't feel like there is any global quest or journey to strive toward. The visuals, environment and music stay mostly static for the entire game. The music is exciting at first, but there's really only one short track that plays on repeat. I feel like I'm seeing the same ~10 backgrounds every battle. Characters have only handful of customized visual differences that barely feel different. Gear does not change visual appearance. Animations are extremely basic. Quests are ridiculously simple, lack meaningful decision making. The combat mechanics are solid.
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I really loved this game, but I think its worth mentioning that it took some time to grow on me. I think the combat and deck building aspect of the game are deceptively complex, by which I mean it didn't click right away. While the early game is very easy, the difficulty spikes pretty severely around the game's midpoint, and it can become very frustrating if you haven't understood how to properly play the game. However, once it clicks, the game becomes very fun again, provided you can push past that first play-through frustration. Pros: - Great music - great (yet complex) combat/ deck building system that is very rewarding once you master it. - Great artwork. Cons: - Sometimes its possible to click the right mouse button and end up with undesirable results. For example, you can loose the combat rewards or skip a turn with an accidental mouse click. It doesn't happen frequently once you are aware of it, but it is very annoying when it happens. - Too many enemies have stun abilities, and you can become stun locked, which is boring/ frustrating if it happens several turns in a row. On a similar note, I think Evasion has a similar issue, where enemies evade much more frequently than their Evade % chance would indicate. - Some of the systems in the game are a bit confusing, and the game doesn't do a great job of explaining them. This makes it so the game becomes very frustrating if you don't know what you are doing. Fortunately, you should be able to get to a point where it makes sense with just a little bit of googling/youtubing, and once you understand how the game works it becomes fun again, but still, I wish the game had been a little more noob friendly Overall, I think this is a very good game, and I enjoyed my time with it. Its become one of my favorites and one that I think I will probably replay every year or two. Which I think is pretty good for a game I got for 3$ during a steam sale!
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Online players
18
Developer
Snowhound Games
Publisher
Fulqrum Publishing
Release
26 Sep 2018
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