Deep Sky Derelicts

About

You’re a scavenger in a broken future, scraping by on derelict alien ships while dreaming of a better life. Deep Sky Derelicts tasks you with leading a team of up to three mercenaries through procedurally generated wreckage, balancing exploration, looting, and tactical combat. Each mission is a turn-based showdown where card draws determine your moves, attack, defend, or use gadgets, and one misstep can mean death. Upgrade gear, recruit new crew, and manage resources from your base ship, but know the galaxy won’t give you a second chance. The game’s retro comic book visuals and grim storytelling carve out a niche in the rogue-like genre. Its card-driven combat adds unpredictable tension, while the focus on mercenary teamwork and base management offers depth beyond typical dungeon crawlers. Though small, the community praises its sharp mechanics and atmospheric worldbuilding, with many noting how its harsh difficulty and random encounters keep runs feeling fresh. A lean but polished experience for strategy fans seeking a challenge.

Storyline

“They drift in the void. Desolate but not empty.” 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. Hire 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.