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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Singleplayer, Point & Click, Story Rich.

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BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION is an isometric, point & click adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic future. Explore an unscene landscape, solve puzzles, meet new friends and make powerful enemies, mediate conflicts and fight for your life as you unravel the secrets of the desolate world around you.

Reviews: Mostly Positive — 77% — of 684 reviews
Released: 2020-02-26
Developer: THE BROTHERHOOD
Genres: Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Median playtime: 3.7 hrs
Mean playtime: 5.4 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 90%

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    Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.

    Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.6%, Point & Click 27.6%, Sci-fi 13.2%, Multiple Endings 7.8%, Story Rich 5.7%

  2. #2 Beyond a Steel Sky
    96% matchVery Positive88% of 1,598 reviews2020
    Dev: Revolution Software Ltd
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    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    From multi-award winning Revolution comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, a groundbreaking 3D adventure thriller, set in an AI-driven future. Subvert the world, hack the systems and solve dark conspiracies to uncover the devastating truth.

    Why similar: Point & Click 24.3%, Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Sci-fi 12.6%, Mystery 10.6%, Story Rich 9.5%

  3. #3 STASIS
    96% matchVery Positive82% of 2,332 reviews2015
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    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    STASIS The isometric, point-and-click, sci-fi horror adventure game! In the distant future aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft, John Maracheck awakes from stasis. He must push himself to new physical and emotional limits and unravel the mysteries around him.

    Why similar: Isometric 23.1%, Point & Click 17%, 2.5D 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Sci-fi 10%

  4. #4 Whispers of a Machine
    95% matchVery Positive93% of 1,957 reviews2019
    Dev: Clifftop GamesPub: Raw Fury
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.

    Why similar: Point & Click 24%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, 2.5D 8.7%, Mystery 8.6%

  5. #5 Shardlight
    94% matchVery Positive90% of 786 reviews2016
    Dev: Wadjet Eye Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    A post-apocalyptic adventure game from the publisher that brought you Primordia, Gemini Rue and Technobabylon! A young woman stricken with a deadly plague searches for a cure in a hostile world.

    Why similar: Point & Click 32.1%, Post-apocalyptic 28.2%, Adventure 8.1%, Mystery 7.8%, Atmospheric 6.6%

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    93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,656 reviews2019
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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Survive through four days at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic point-and-click thriller where your choices could keep you alive... or not.

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    92% matchVery Positive87% of 98 reviews2021
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    Windows
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Gamedec is a single-player cyberpunk isometric RPG. You are a game detective, who solves crimes inside virtual worlds. Use your wits to gather info from your witnesses and suspects, getting to the bottom of deceptive schemes. The game continually adapts to your decisions and never judges.

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    91% matchVery Positive83% of 1,098 reviews2020
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    VirtuaVerse is a challenging old school cyberpunk point & click adventure set in a future not so far away narrating tales of technomancers, AVR graffiti writers, hacker groups, tribes of cryptoshamans, digital archeology, epic cyberwars and virtual reality debauchery.

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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%

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    89% matchVery Positive90% of 163 reviews2024
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Windows · Mac
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Windows · Mac
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    Windows
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    Windows
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    75% matchMostly Positive70% of 1,808 reviews2022
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    Windows
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    76% matchVery Positive80% of 4,374 reviews2013
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    75% matchVery Positive89% of 206 reviews2021
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  36. #36 Apocalipsis
    76% matchMostly Positive72% of 513 reviews2018
    Dev: Punch Punk GamesPub: Wildlands Interactive
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 65%

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    74% matchVery Positive94% of 286 reviews2020
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    74% matchVery Positive88% of 1,038 reviews2018
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    A post-apocalyptic adventure game set in a world where the player must search for food, water and essential supplies to survive. Discover a world filled with colourful NPCs, quests and secrets.

    Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 64.7%, Retro 18.1%, Adventure 17.2%

  53. #53 FAR: Lone Sails
    67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 25,500 reviews2018
    Dev: Okomotive
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?

    Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.7%, 2.5D 23.4%, Cinematic 17.2%, Atmospheric 10%, Story Rich 8.5%

  54. #54 Neon Hearts City
    66% matchVery Positive84% of 50 reviews2025
    Dev: Cosmic VoidPub: Dionous Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A private investigator, tracking a missing person, uncovers a conspiracy between humans and androids and a secret that could change everything. Neon Hearts City is a retro point-and-click adventure that thrusts you into a grungy cyberpunk city of the future.

    Why similar: Point & Click 24.8%, Investigation 18.6%, Story Rich 9.2%, Old School 8.7%, Mystery 8.5%

  55. #55 Neoproxima
    66% matchVery Positive97% of 68 reviews2024
    Dev: Lonestone Studio
    Windows

    Investigating a time-loop during the Cold War, light years away from Earth. Neoproxima is a text-based adventure game that combines exploration and simple RPG and survival mechanics. Plan your next loop carefully, and go as far as possible before time catches up with you.

    Why similar: Alternate History 18.6%, Point & Click 17.3%, Isometric 13.9%, Investigation 11.5%, Mystery 10.9%

  56. #56 Booth: A Dystopian Adventure
    68% matchVery Positive91% of 386 reviews2020
    Dev: Guanpeng Chen
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    The year is 2036. In this famine-riddled world, food-centric sovereignty has been established. Living alone inside a food-inspection booth, you are striving to find truth and peace beyond the borderline.

    Why similar: Point & Click 18.9%, Post-apocalyptic 18.3%, Multiple Endings 16.4%, Mystery 12.7%, Story Rich 11%

  57. #57 Shambles: Sons of Apocalypse
    65% matchVery Positive82% of 338 reviews2025
    Dev: EXLIXPub: GRAVITY
    Windows

    “The world you knew is already collapsed.”As an explorer in a bunker, explore a new world 500 years in the future and decide its fate. You can lead the world back to doom or bring it to peace. It all depends on your choices.

    Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 37.2%, Multiple Endings 20.9%, Story Rich 13.8%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Adventure 7.6%

  58. #58 Empathy: Path of Whispers
    71% matchMixed60% of 219 reviews2017
    Dev: Pixel NightPub: Iceberg Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Empathy: Path of Whispers is an atmospheric and story-driven adventure game where you explore a seemingly abandoned world through the emotions and memories of the people who once inhabited it, trying to restore the world’s lost balance by journeying through its past.

    Why similar: Story Rich 34.1%, Adventure 29.2%, Atmospheric 25.4%, Puzzle 11.3%

  59. #59 Prominence
    70% matchVery Positive85% of 155 reviews2015
    Dev: Digital Media Workshop
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    When the interstellar mission to colonize a new world goes terribly awry, the fate of the Letarri people falls into the hands of a lone adventurer. Now it's up to you to unravel the mystery of what happened. Can you save them and their mission, or is it already too late?

    Why similar: Point & Click 20.4%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Investigation 13.6%, Old School 11.6%, Mystery 11.1%

  60. #60 ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game
    67% matchVery Positive85% of 10,424 reviews2018
    Dev: AtomTeam
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 27.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    ATOM RPG is a post-apocalyptic indie game, inspired by classic CRPGs: Fallout, Wasteland, Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate and many others.

    Why similar: Isometric 27.4%, Post-apocalyptic 26.7%, Alternate History 22.3%, Puzzle 7.2%, Story Rich 6.5%

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