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Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift

84% positive of 200 Steam reviews

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Released
2026
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam

Made by Garan Lorn. Published by Selenodrome.

About the game

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.

Tagged by players

  • Colony Sim
  • Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Space
  • Turn-Based Strategy
  • Text-Based
  • Immersive Sim
  • Multiple Endings
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Choices Matter
  • Management
  • 1980s
  • Sci-fi

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What players say

  • Not recommended
    I really wanted to like this game, but it is not yet in a state that makes playing it more than once enjoyable. I don't think the text is written by the AI, it does have a unique style though. A much bigger problem is the fact that a lot of functionality is only hinted at, incomplete, or perhaps even forgotten. And yeah other people complained about the use of AI here, I think it is most notable in the way the…

    3.1 h played when written. 4 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    AI writing in EVERY SINGLE DESCRIPTION. Confusing description on mechanics. Very little content in colonization phase. Default upper limit for habitability is 87%. Probe has little to even negative impact. Bad optimization, the game calculates data by going through every person alive. Population suffers from low storage status of resources, while the consumption on resources does not change, meaning that everyone…

    5.5 h played when written. 3 found it helpful.

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