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Starless Abyss

PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch • 2025

Should you play it?

Earth has fallen. Science and the Occult have united forces to brace for the arrival of the Eldritch. But will the efforts against this strange, alien race be enough? Play as one of many Proximae used to help defend humanity in this turn-based, roguelike, intergalactic deck builder.

What works

  • Deep strategic deckbuilding and tactical combat
  • Engaging eldritch sci-fi theme and story
  • High replayability with meta progression
  • Excellent pixel art and music
  • Meaningful player choice and customization

Things to keep in mind

  • Some balance and rng frustrations
  • Steep learning curve and ui complexity
  • Randomness can undermine strategy
  • Some bugs and crashes reported
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Cobalt Core

  • Vault of the Void

  • Monster Train 2

  • Dream of Corpse Lady

  • Quantum Protocol

  • Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend

  • Union of Gnomes

  • DungeonTop

  • Hadean Tactics

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Ash of Gods: The Way

  • Magicbook AutoBattler: Contract

  • 纸境英雄 Papercraft

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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Starless Abyss: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Strategy, Survival.

Last update: 25/07/2026