Deep Sky Derelicts is a decent dungeon crawler with excellent presentation. Some may say they stole it from Darkest Dungeon, but they stole it from Mike Mignola first.
The degree of character customization is good and the card combat helps distinguish different encounters, even if it's only because of the RNG inherent to the genre.
Equipment is tied to cards so prioritizing either stats or moves is always a concern and prevents the game from becoming just about picking the biggest number.
I specially liked the story because the protagonists have a mundane, realistic motivation that plays into the world building. You can also learn more about the setting from character interactions and electronic devices you can find.
The only major gripes I have with it are the lack of direction at the beginning since the tutorial is too brief in my opinion and combat encounters can get painfully long by the end of the campaign, I'm talking about the last 2 or 3 derelicts.

Reviewed on Jul 24, 2022


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