Stellar Orphans

This game is mindlessly hard. Not in a fun and challenging way but in a mindlessly piling on kind of dumb and unfun way. Even still, I managed to find a way to engage with this game that worked for me until this latest "patch" for the game just ERASED ALL MY UNLOCKS FROM 97 HOURS OF PLAY. I'm uninstalling the game, hiding it from my library, and ignoring this all developer's games going forward. Oh and one last thing to the developer...GET ♥♥♥♥♥♥!

This turn-based deck builder game has a lot of character. You really feel like a story is being told as you play along. This game has a lot of re-playability.

Humans have been making card games for thousands of years. This is evidence of our evolution as a species :p.

Addictive game with fun prioritization of resource mechanics

Anyone who tells you this is hard, isn't meta-gaming properly. First scenario I beat in like 500 turns or days. The next scenario, once I saw the best cards and understood what I should be looking for in a run I beat it in 200 days.

Stellar Orphans is a roguelike deckbuilding game that approaches the genre from a far darker and more survival-focused angle than most of its competitors. Developed and published by Artifex Parvus, the game places players in command of a fragile crew stranded aboard a failing spacecraft drifting through hostile space. Instead of focusing purely on combat encounters or building unstoppable card combinations, the game revolves around survival, crisis management, and the constant struggle to prevent total collapse. Hunger, illness, mechanical breakdowns, psychological stress, resource shortages, and random disasters all threaten the crew at every moment, creating an atmosphere that feels oppressive, tense, and emotionally exhausting in the best possible way. From the very beginning, Stellar Orphans establishes that survival is never guaranteed. Every decision matters because resources are scarce and problems constantly pile on top of one another. A single poor choice can eventually trigger a chain reaction that destroys an otherwise successful run hours later. The game’s structure revolves around navigating emergencies while gradually improving the crew’s capabilities through deckbui…