Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift

Colony ship simulation with choices that reshape future generations

Garan Lorn · Published by Selenodrome · Released Jun 25, 2026 · Early Access

Reviews: Very Positive; 83% of 218
Recent reviews: Very Positive; 84% of 32 in 30 days
Players: 5; daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update on Steam: 20 hours ago; Oct 28, 2026
Minimum PC: GTX 600; 4 GB RAM · 0.3 GB disk; Full requirements

What is Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift?

A single-player, Early Access colony management game about guiding a ship of colonists toward a distant planet. Across generations, you manage food, power, and hull integrity, respond to crises, and influence changes in the crew’s genetics, beliefs, technology, and social divisions.

For you if...

+you enjoy reading through science fiction dilemmas

Not for you if...

−you expect largely unpredictable events on repeated playthroughs

What players say

83% of 218 reviews are positive · 84% of 32 in the last 30 days

Players praise the colony-ship premise, but criticize writing some describe as AI-like or disconnected from decisions. Recent reviews also cite unfinished systems, limited settlement content, and bugs that cause resource changes to differ from the stated consequences.

Screenshots and trailer

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Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift system requirements

Minimum: GTX 600, 4 GB RAM, 0.3 GB of disk space.

As published by the developer.

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Minimum

OS: Windows 10 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core i3-6100
Graphics: Vulkan 1.0 compatible (GTX 600 / RX 400 series or newer)
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 300 MB MB available space

Does Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Single-player

Does Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift run on Steam Deck?

Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.

Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

PC version details

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows, Linux
Achievements: 43
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Languages: Text only: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese.

Does Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift use AI-generated content?

Yes. The developers disclose AI-generated content on the game's Steam page:

Dead Reckoning is written, and designed by one person. I want to be precise about where AI tools do and don't appear in it. Creative content — no generative AI. All writing, narrative, and design is mine. I've worked as a technical writer for twelve years; the game's voice is my own. All art and visual assets are hand-made or licensed from named human artists. All music and sound effects are licensed from named human creators (public domain / Creative Commons) — none of it is AI-generated. This is a hard line and I intend to keep it. Development & release tooling — where AI assists. I use AI i...

Full statement

Dead Reckoning is written, and designed by one person. I want to be precise about where AI tools do and don't appear in it. Creative content — no generative AI. All writing, narrative, and design is mine. I've worked as a technical writer for twelve years; the game's voice is my own. All art and visual assets are hand-made or licensed from named human artists. All music and sound effects are licensed from named human creators (public domain / Creative Commons) — none of it is AI-generated. This is a hard line and I intend to keep it. Development & release tooling — where AI assists. I use AI in the engineering and release pipeline only, never to author the game itself: - Coding assistance while writing the game's GDScript. - An automated QA/test harness that plays the simulation thousands of times to catch crashes and balance regressions. - Assistance in building linters (Valve YAML sheets) that check the project's text. - Drafting and summarizing the release notes (patch notes) from the project's changelog. None of this creates any of the writing, art, audio, or design inside the game. Localization. The four translations (German, French, Italian, Spanish) are machine-translated by DeepL from my English source, with automated guards that fall back to English wherever a translation would break. This is an accessibility vs. quality decision, and I decided on the former. Proper localizations are planned and will be contracted out if the budget allows.

The statement mentions: VoicesText & translationsCode

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam