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Derelict Star

94% positive of 163 Steam reviews

Released: 2026
Steam Deck: Verified
Platforms: Steam

Made by gate. Published by Luminous Tree Games.

About the game

A precise momentum-based platformer that emphasizes exploration and navigation puzzles. Run and jump your way through a wide variety of obstacles and challenges as you explore an abandoned derelict freighter. Be careful: getting in is often easier than getting out!

Tagged by players

Precision Platformer
Metroidvania
Nonlinear
2D Platformer
Platformer
Minimalist
Space
Exploration
Sci-fi
Pixel Graphics
Action
Adventure

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Very Positive

What players say

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Derelict Star puts the "precision" in precision platformer. We're talking the most subtle micro-adjustments just to clear a few deadly buzzsaws, only to realize maybe you're maybe halfway through a platforming gauntlet to collect an optional qbit. The reward you ask? An overwhelming feeling of satisfaction and elation. The game even tells you the qbits don't really matter and are purely optional; ultimately you're…
11 h played when written, mostly on Steam Deck. 4 found it helpful.
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Recommended
VERY difficult precision platformer. Very difficult even by the standards of the genre. I love it. The challenge comes in 2 stages. A puzzle element where you have to figure out the details of how the movement mechanics work and how to apply them to the current situation and then, the hard part, actually executing. The difficulty spike is very steep but stick with it and things you first thought "there's no way…
11 h played when written. 5 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
For a game that focuses on pixel perfect precision, it feels really bad to have a movement system that feels so imprecise and frankly clunky. I'm sure players who put 6 thousand hours into the game will say the movement system is actually amazing, but seven hours in and I just feel frustrated with how little control I feel I have sometimes. Why does the game seem obsessed with constantly making me hover over two…
7.2 h played when written. 3 found it helpful.
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