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Games Like Dark Scavenger

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Point & Click, Adventure, 2D, Story Rich.

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Dark Scavenger is a bizarre point-and-click RPG adventure with a focus on exploration, gaining loot, and meaningful choices. Filling the role of a powerful space traveler, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious alien planet. Will you save the world or just yourself?

Reviews: Very Positive — 87% — of 243 reviews
Released: 2014-05-16
Developer: Psydra Games LLC
Genres: Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Median playtime: 2.1 hrs
Mean playtime: 5.0 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 94%

Overview

Dark Scavenger is a unique blend of bizarre humor, sci-fi exploration, and RPG-lite decision-making that rewards curiosity and meaningful choices. These recommendations focus on titles that capture that same spirit of quirky point-and-click adventure, narrative-driven gameplay, and imaginative futuristic or alien settings.

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    Why similar: RPG 21.6%, Lovecraftian 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Point & Click 14.9%, Comedy 9.8%

    Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the blend of absurd humor, RPG character progression, and point-and-click exploration found in Dark Scavenger.

  2. #2 The Captain
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    Why similar: RPG 23.8%, Point & Click 17.9%, Comedy 13.7%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.8%

    Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi adventure features meaningful choices and a humorous tone while navigating the dangers of deep space.

  3. #3 Quest for Infamy
    96% matchVery Positive85% of 239 reviews2014
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    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%

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    Why similar: RPG 46.6%, Point & Click 23.3%, Adventure 13.8%, Comedy 8.3%, Indie 8%

    Why You'll Like It: A classic-style point-and-click RPG that leans heavily into comedy and player agency in a fantasy setting.

  4. #4 Primordia
    95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,387 reviews2012
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    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: Point & Click 42.3%, Sci-fi 23.9%, Adventure 13%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Indie 7%

    Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric sci-fi point-and-click game that emphasizes exploration and discovery in a desolate, alien-like world.

  5. #5 Paradigm
    94% matchVery Positive94% of 1,633 reviews2017
    Dev: Jacob Janerka
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Paradigm is a surreal adventure game set in the strange and post apocalyptic Eastern European country of Krusz. Play as the handsome mutant, Paradigm, whose past comes back to haunt him in the form of a genetically engineered sloth that vomits candy.

    Why similar: Point & Click 35.8%, Comedy 21%, Adventure 15.4%, Funny 11.4%, Indie 10.1%

    Why You'll Like It: A surreal and hilarious point-and-click adventure that matches the bizarre, offbeat energy of Dark Scavenger.

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    94% matchMostly Positive79% of 176 reviews2011
    Dev: Cateia Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 36 minMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 44%

    Step into a hilarious, steampunk-tinged point n click space adventure! Play as Captain Brawe, Agent Luna and Danny across four colorful planets — solve clever puzzles, uncover conspiracies, and meet unforgettable characters (space pirates, secret agents, and eccentric aliens).

    Why similar: Point & Click 19.6%, Comedy 15.1%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Hand-drawn 13.7%, Cartoony 11.6%

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  7. #7 60 Parsecs!
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    Why similar: RPG 26.4%, Point & Click 20.6%, Comedy 16.7%, Sci-fi 15.9%, Funny 13.1%

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  8. #8 Star Story: The Horizon Escape
    93% matchVery Positive83% of 183 reviews2017
    Dev: EvilCoGames
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%

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    Why similar: RPG 21.5%, Point & Click 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.6%

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    Why similar: Point & Click 31.7%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Cartoony 13.3%, Adventure 11.8%, Funny 9.6%

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    90% matchVery Positive88% of 129 reviews2025
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    Windows

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  11. #11 Technobabylon
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    Windows

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    Why similar: Point & Click 20.1%, Comedy 16.2%, Hand-drawn 13%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Cartoony 11%

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    Windows

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    Windows

    You are a body snatching creature. Capture the body, explore the environment, reproduce.

    Why similar: RPG 27.6%, Point & Click 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Adventure 10.3%, Comedy 8.2%

  50. #50 Deep Sixed
    71% matchVery Positive84% of 105 reviews2018
    Dev: LRDGames, Inc.
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Deep Sixed is a roguelike space sim that will force you to use strategy, ingenuity and duct tape to keep your ship (and your skull) in one piece as you risk exploring a mysterious nebula protected by dangerous alien creatures.

    Why similar: Adventure 25.6%, Indie 21.5%, Sci-fi 16.1%, Comedy 15.1%, Funny 11.1%

  51. #51 Salvagers
    67% matchVery Positive80% of 50 reviews2025
    Dev: Tomasz Banaś
    Windows · Linux

    In Salvagers, you command a small crew of greedy explorers that land on abandoned space stations that litter the galaxy, and it's your job to loot them for anything worth a credit. Scrap tech, lost weapons, forgotten treasures - everything has a price.

    Why similar: RPG 66.6%, Adventure 18.8%, Sci-fi 14.7%

  52. #52 Don't Escape Trilogy
    69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 701 reviews2019
    Dev: scriptwelderPub: Armor Games Studios
    Windows
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    In this classic point-and-click adventure anthology by award-winning indie developer Scriptwelder, you'll protect an unsuspecting hamlet from yourself, try to prepare for an incoming undead horde, and search a seemingly empty spaceship for answers to a gruesome mystery.

    Why similar: Point & Click 38.4%, Sci-fi 19%, Adventure 16.6%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Indie 11.6%

  53. #53 Starship Inspector
    71% matchMixed61% of 51 reviews2021
    Dev: Vedanta Team
    Windows

    Starship Inspector is a Space Roguelike in which every choice you make matters. Save a galaxy or rescue your crew member? Serve an evil empire or help an ancient tribe? You'll constantly have to make hard decisions and deal with consequences.

    Why similar: RPG 46.2%, Adventure 19.2%, Sci-fi 18.1%, Indie 14.7%, Singleplayer 1.8%

  54. #54 Twilight Oracle
    67% matchVery Positive97% of 119 reviews2024
    Dev: Cosmic Void
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Journey to a strange world in search of the fabled Oracle in this fantasy comedy point & click adventure. Play as Leo, a struggling student with the ability to breathe underwater, and explore a desert island and the depths of an alien ocean to uncover your school’s dark past.

    Why similar: Point & Click 32.4%, Comedy 25.1%, Funny 15.3%, Adventure 12.2%, Indie 7.5%

  55. #55 Dream Sketcher
    68% matchMixed59% of 492 reviews2023
    Dev: RisingPunch Studio
    Windows
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Dream Sketcher is a 1-4 player investigative adventure game. As an investigator of the special agency Dreamland Security, you will form a team and enter the weirdest dreams to conduct brain-diving investigation. Danger is imminent, investigate, make choices, roll the dice, and fight!

    Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.6%, RPG 23.8%, Turn-Based 17.4%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Choices Matter 7.5%

  56. #56 Exit: A Biodelic Adventure
    67% matchVery Positive90% of 67 reviews2024
    Dev: neurosaur
    Windows

    In the world of excessive biotechnologies, an epidemic is ravaging the human race, infecting people's neuronet implants and enslaving them to the mysterious Worm. Who are you: a fighter of the infection, or a hunter of new prey?

    Why similar: Point & Click 35.8%, Sci-fi 19.7%, Adventure 13.9%, Comedy 11.8%, Indie 9.6%

  57. #57 Sky Caravan
    68% matchVery Positive98% of 56 reviews2022
    Dev: Studio Bravarda
    Windows

    Welcome to the Skyways, caravaneer. Complete missions, manage your ship’s resources and make tough decisions to keep your crew alive and happy. Or not. Choices have lasting consequences in this Text-Based RPG. You are the captain - and the clouds are waiting!

    Why similar: RPG 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Point & Click 10.4%, Choices Matter 9%

  58. #58 The Endless Empty
    68% matchVery Positive96% of 297 reviews2018
    Dev: Erik Sheader-Smith
    Windows

    A surreal post-life adventure

    Why similar: RPG 55%, Adventure 14.5%, Indie 11.7%, Choices Matter 7.3%, Funny 6.3%

  59. #59 Low Oxygen
    66% matchVery Positive89% of 299 reviews2023
    Dev: Alex-Stefan Neagu
    Windows · Linux

    Explore an abandoned facility on the planet you've crashlanded, solving puzzles with strange plants along the way.

    Why similar: Adventure 32.1%, Casual 24%, Funny 21.7%, Sci-fi 18.3%, Indie 2.9%

  60. #60 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: RPG 49.4%, Multiple Endings 17.2%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Exploration 11.2%, Adventure 10.9%

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