Games Like The Desolate Hope

On the desolate moon of Lorian, a long-dormant Deadsuit awakens from slumber. Journey beneath the surface on an atmospheric 2D adventure of self-discovery, ancient mysteries, and cosmic terror. Explore winding caverns and acquire new abilities to unearth this alien world’s long-buried secrets.

Why similar: Robots 32.5%, Platformer 20.2%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Adventure 7.1%, Action 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the atmospheric, desolate sci-fi setting on an alien world filled with remnants of past civilizations.

Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.

Why similar: Platformer 37.3%, Adventure 15.7%, Great Soundtrack 11.7%, Indie 9.4%, Sci-fi 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the retro-inspired aesthetic and subterranean exploration of abandoned sci-fi installations.

Retro Machina is a single-player action and exploration game set in a retro-futuristic universe. Experience the journey of a little robot as it solves intricate puzzles and begins unraveling the mysteries of a world long forgotten.

Why similar: RPG 94.6%, Robots 2.5%, Platformer 1.1%, Adventure 0.4%, Action 0.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features a lone robot protagonist navigating a ruined, beautiful world filled with mechanical mysteries.

The Uncertain is an story-driven adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Experience the mysterious vibe of each of carefully explored locations, solve diverse puzzles, make fateful decisions and discuss intriguing matters to find out the whole truth being kept from you.

Why similar: Robots 52.4%, Sci-fi 13.7%, Adventure 12.5%, Atmospheric 5.3%, Indie 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Explores a post-apocalyptic world from the perspective of robots trying to understand humanity's fate.

Thousands of years after the activation of the Vesper Protocol, a small android crosses a fallen world, hunted by merciless machines, to control the power of Light and decide the fate of his race.

Why similar: Platformer 33.9%, Sci-fi 26.2%, Indie 9.7%, Adventure 9.2%, Action 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on a small robot exploring a dark, dangerous alien planet packed with sci-fi intrigue.

A surreal post-life adventure

Why similar: RPG 98.3%, Adventure 0.4%, Surreal 0.3%, Great Soundtrack 0.3%, Indie 0.3%

Why You'll Like It: Matches the surreal, existential indie storytelling and unique visual style found in Scott Cawthon's early works.

In 2097, life is discovered on Mars. When your mission of first contact becomes trapped by a cave-in, you must master the alien ecosystem to survive. Soon you stumble upon more than anyone expected, and with time running out, you will make a decision that determines the fate of a lost planet.

Why similar: Platformer 30.7%, Sci-fi 28.5%, Adventure 16.3%, Indie 8.2%, Action 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes lonely scientific exploration and survival on a mysterious, distant planet.

A Void Hope takes you on an atmospheric narrative adventure to find a cure for a collapsed city. Follow the story of a tormented couple as they try to decipher reality from nightmares and evade the shadowy threats lurking in the dark.

Why similar: Platformer 36.5%, Adventure 28.7%, Atmospheric 20.2%, Indie 7.5%, 2D 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a moody, atmospheric journey through a desolate urban environment with rich narrative undertones.

During an expedition to the Moon, two astronauts find themselves in a familiar town back on Earth. They soon discover the town is the beginning of a strange and mysterious journey...

Why similar: Sci-fi 38.5%, Adventure 21.5%, Atmospheric 14.4%, Action 14.2%, Story Rich 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Invokes the same lonely space-exploration vibe with unexpected sci-fi anomalies and secrets.

EX VITRO is a dark sci-fi 2D platformer where you delve into the ruins of a military research facility and discover the horrors within. Whether machine, creature, or something else entirely, you’ll face the violent legacy of the last survivors of humanity.

Why similar: Platformer 36.6%, Sci-fi 16.3%, Horror 11%, Adventure 9.8%, Action 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an atmospheric 2D exploration experience set within mysterious, isolated sci-fi environments.

Crashed on a desolate but mysterious planet you find yourself eye to eye with an ancient civilisation. Explore the planet, find powerful upgrades, and fulfill your destiny.

Why similar: Platformer 45.5%, Adventure 25.5%, Atmospheric 12.2%, Indie 9.4%, Story Rich 5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines atmospheric platforming and exploration in a desolate, alien-like environment.

Space Expedition is a 2D sci-fi platformer where you play as an astronaut who is sent to a space station to collect samples of mysterious dark matter. Space Expedition combines puzzle platforming, pixel art, and atmospheric adventures set in the style of 1980s sci-fi horror films.

Why similar: Robots 43.6%, Platformer 21.7%, Adventure 9.4%, Indie 8.1%, Atmospheric 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides retro 2D platforming action across various planetary exploration missions.

The Uncertain is a story-driven adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Humanity disappeared from the face of the Earth and has been replaced by robots. Together with Emily, one of the survivors, you will have to witness how people try to live in a world ruled by robots.

Why similar: Robots 49.6%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Adventure 10.5%, Atmospheric 6%, Action 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Continues the robotic perspective in a desolate world struggling with post-apocalyptic survival.

Discover thet dark story of this space station and find a way out.

Why similar: RPG 98.1%, Adventure 1.2%, Action 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: Takes place in a claustrophobic, isolated sci-fi station overrun by danger and mystery.

The Moon's haunted - and when an astronaut loses contact with Earth, the adventure begins in full. Fill up your oxygen, load up the guns, and set out on an interstellar FPS adventure across the stars, filled with puzzles, fights, exploration, and strange secrets of the universe.

Why similar: Robots 52%, Sci-fi 16.4%, Adventure 13.7%, Action 5.7%, Atmospheric 5%

Why You'll Like It: Immerses the player in a lonely sci-fi lunar mystery rich with isolation and exploration.

Automaton Heart is an RPG with platforming elements where you visit obscure and interesting places while upgrading your organs and strategizing about which items to bring along.

Why similar: RPG 96.3%, Robots 1.8%, Sci-fi 0.5%, Adventure 0.5%, Surreal 0.3%

Why You'll Like It: Puts players in the metallic shoes of robotic characters navigating a harsh technological world.

In THE DESCENDANT, the end of the world is only the start. With what remains of humanity protected in underground Ark facilities, your mission is to keep survivors alive, while discovering a far greater conspiracy buried within Ark-01.

Why similar: Adventure 98.3%, Sci-fi 0.8%, Story Rich 0.6%, Indie 0.2%, Singleplayer 0.1%

Why You'll Like It: Deals with the survival of humanity inside a subterranean shelter under dystopian conditions.

Soulless: Ray of Hope is a 2D story-driven platformer focused on atmosphere, exploration, and emotional storytelling in a dark, minimalist world.

Why similar: Platformer 56.7%, Horror 16.6%, Action 10.1%, Story Rich 8.9%, 2D 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a melancholic, atmospheric journey through dark and surreal puzzle-platforming worlds.

Dissonance is a top-down 3rd person adventure game. Players will encounter supernatural anomalies and creatures. Find and use specialized gadgets to aid you in your journey. Explore the abandoned research facility and reveal the secret of the organization that sent you here.

Why similar: RPG 95.3%, Sci-fi 1.5%, Surreal 1.1%, Adventure 1%, Indie 0.4%

Why You'll Like It: Shares a surreal, exploratory indie atmosphere driven by strange mechanical and spatial anomalies.

Silence, cold, solitude… What lies ahead? A small atmospheric adventure about a robot lost in a frozen wasteland.

Why similar: Robots 61.3%, Adventure 17.7%, Indie 9.7%, Atmospheric 8.6%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: Follows a robotic protagonist exploring a freezing, isolated frontier.

A retro FPS with an artistically gritty setting from the early 2000's. Uncover futuristic weapons lost to time and face off against terrifying bosses. Do you have what it takes to stand against the darkness and save humanity from the brink of extinction?

Why similar: RPG 98.1%, Sci-fi 0.9%, Horror 0.5%, Action 0.3%, Atmospheric 0.1%

Why You'll Like It: Explores a derelict, lore-rich space environment governed by mysterious AI systems.

Discover a world overrun with robots, and play as a defective bot who tries to find a way to flee the facility. Find others who are the same kind, free them, and escape the laboratory!

Why similar: RPG 98.1%, Robots 1.5%, Adventure 0.2%, Indie 0.1%, Story Rich 0.1%

Why You'll Like It: Sends players into uncharted, desolate sci-fi realms to solve deep environmental mysteries.

"The sands have no pity." The inhabitants of Zetta-115 often say that. The same they instill in their children from an early age. And this is what they whisper about, sitting in their dilapidated shacks, waiting for the impending storm...

Why similar: Sci-fi 33.1%, Adventure 21.3%, Horror 15.5%, Action 13.6%, Atmospheric 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Presents a sci-fi adventure filled with desolate landscapes and intriguing environmental puzzles.

You’ve made the biggest mistake in history. Now, you're the last hope. Explore the UK, Russia, Germany, Norway, Egypt, USA, Mars, and the Moon. Search for food, face creatures, travel through time, and fight to restore humanity. Survive or perish—your choices shape the future.

Why similar: Horror 43.9%, Action 31.8%, Story Rich 24.3%

Why You'll Like It: Shares a thematic connection through survival and exploration in a desperate sci-fi setting.

In the barren wasteland on the brink of extinction, the last Train departs, supposedly carrying its passengers in search of a place where they can survive. A creature named Eilf boards the Train, determined to travel to Spring - the station that has been said to have vanished.

Why similar: RPG 98.6%, Adventure 0.5%, Atmospheric 0.3%, Indie 0.3%, Story Rich 0.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a moody, narrative-driven journey through atmospheric post-apocalyptic vistas.

A precise momentum-based platformer that emphasizes exploration and navigation puzzles. Run and jump your way through a wide variety of obstacles and challenges as you explore an abandoned derelict freighter. Be careful: getting in is often easier than getting out!

Why similar: Platformer 45.8%, Sci-fi 22.7%, Adventure 12.4%, Action 9.9%, 2D 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploring ruined, abandoned space structures filled with platforming challenges.

Within the Cosmos is a sci-fi RPG. After awakening in a secluded star system, you soon discover a fractured human society grappling with an emerging android threat. Explore planets, uncover mysteries, and navigate differing philosophies. Your choices will shape how the story unfolds.

Why similar: RPG 96.9%, Robots 1.6%, Sci-fi 0.7%, Adventure 0.2%, Action 0.2%

Why You'll Like It: Involves survival and exploration in remote, isolated sci-fi outposts across the stars.

Explore a cold, abandoned, and dreary facility to piece together its mysteries and find a means for escape from the horror that lurks within.

Why similar: Horror 32.5%, Atmospheric 29%, Adventure 20.8%, Indie 12.4%, Singleplayer 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Builds a heavy sense of isolation and dread within a mysterious, confined science facility.

A post-apocalyptic 3D platformer combining puzzles with intense action. You play as El, a robot escaping from a dreadful facility and exploring the ruins of civilization.

Why similar: Platformer 54.8%, Adventure 19%, Atmospheric 14.7%, Sci-fi 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features dark, post-apocalyptic environments full of mechanical grit and isolation.

Tasked with finding humanity a new home, a lonely astronaut braves a desolate planet while making a fluffy friend along the way. homebound is a short 2D puzzle platformer that explores the feeling of home.

Why similar: Platformer 57.7%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Indie 9.3%, Atmospheric 8.2%, 2D 6.6%

MOONROT is a short horror game about piloting a rover across a distant alien moon. Take grainy photos, record crackly signals, keep your battery charged, and uncover the source of the anomaly that led you here.

Why similar: Robots 28.7%, Sci-fi 25.1%, Horror 16%, Surreal 9.5%, Action 9.5%

Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.

Why similar: Robots 45.7%, Platformer 24.5%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Atmospheric 6%, Indie 5.2%

Waking up in the darkness, unable to see the sunrise, he remembered the little master carefully carried him home. The base has already fallen into ruin and there are no signs of any living people here. Where did the little master go? Is there any hope left under the doomsday?

Why similar: RPG 99.3%, Atmospheric 0.3%, Story Rich 0.2%, 2D 0.1%, Singleplayer 0%

Search for new life forms as you try to survive on a mysterious hostile world in the surreal 2D action-platformer Orange Moon.

Why similar: RPG 97.1%, Robots 1%, Platformer 0.6%, Adventure 0.5%, Action 0.3%

The story begin when the robot, whose experiment was interrupted, begins working again years later in an abandoned laboratory.

Why similar: Platformer 23.9%, Adventure 23.5%, Action 15.9%, Indie 14.5%, Great Soundtrack 12.8%

Unravel the mystery uncovered by a remote interplanetary mining operation. What did they find? What threat does it pose? And ultimately, what does it truly mean to be a hero?

Why similar: Adventure 32.6%, Platformer 29.6%, Indie 19.4%, Action 18.3%

In the last days of their life, a dying person takes one final gamble... No More Future is a linear Sci-Fi Visual Novel, where you explore a futuristic world as an android trying to rebuild their old life. In this strange journey, they'll question the very foundations of their life and their world.

Why similar: Adventure 36.5%, Sci-fi 33.3%, Story Rich 14.6%, Indie 8.6%, 2D 4.4%

The Signal From Tölva is an open-world first-person shooter set on a distant, haunted, future world. Unlock savage weapons and recruit robots to fight alongside you as rival factions struggle to discover the source of the mysterious signal. What you discover will decide the fate of a world.

Why similar: Robots 63.7%, Sci-fi 15.7%, Action 6.4%, Indie 4.8%, Atmospheric 4.1%

HOPE 01 is a single player extraction survival RPG with multiple endings. Explore, Loot, and Fight your way through the dangerous enemies and bosses of the hab cluster and solve the mystery of the legendary HAB 01.

Why similar: RPG 98.7%, Adventure 0.5%, Action 0.3%, Indie 0.3%, 2D 0.2%

EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.

Why similar: Sci-fi 31.1%, Horror 22.3%, Adventure 19.6%, Action 15.1%, Story Rich 10.3%

Stranded for unknown reasons in the lower orbit of a purple gas giant, you are kind of just chilling out. You should probably get on with your mission. There's still plenty of time, though.

Why similar: Platformer 51.3%, Sci-fi 15.6%, Adventure 13.6%, Indie 8.1%, 2D 7.9%

You're trapped, alone and cold on a distant planet. Pursued by a droid with only one purpose: killing everything. You must find an escape. Explore the hostile environment, find secret upgrades and new weapons, and finally make your escape from this dark, hostile planet...

Why similar: Platformer 71.6%, Action 28.4%

Discovery of a new Goldilocks planet has led to the creation of a new type of army: One that is made of metal and steel. One that can’t feel pain or fear. One that is said to be our only hope against a possible alien invasion.

Why similar: Robots 35.6%, Action 20.4%, Sci-fi 17.2%, Platformer 15.3%, Indie 11.4%

While the Great Stargazer is deeply sleeping, the Celestial Guardians protect the equilibrium of the forgotten world…

Why similar: Adventure 19.3%, Sci-fi 18.2%, Platformer 14.9%, Action 12.7%, Indie 11.5%

Something has gone horribly wrong on fuel station Zeta. All of the robots have gone haywire. It is up to you, a lone maintenance bot, to help a friendly space traveler fuel up his ship and get home. Explore your way through a dangerous labyrinth of traps and hostile robots.

Why similar: Adventure 64.6%, Indie 35.4%

you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.

Why similar: Adventure 30.3%, Horror 27.1%, Atmospheric 19.7%, Story Rich 15.5%, Singleplayer 7.4%

Complete physics-based platformer puzzles as you venture deeper into an abandoned research facility responsible for developing ominously powerful quantum entanglement technology.

Why similar: Platformer 29.3%, Sci-fi 29.1%, Adventure 15%, Atmospheric 8.8%, Story Rich 7.7%

Defunct is an indie adventure game with a focus on flow, speed and an engaging world. You are a broken robot that accidentally falls out of a giant cargo ship onto a post-human Earth, now inhabited by robots. You have to get back to your ship before it’s too late!

Why similar: Robots 39.5%, Platformer 23%, Adventure 14.2%, Great Soundtrack 12.7%, Indie 7.9%

Explore, fight, and produce items to grow stronger as seven distinct heroes in this silent world. Guided by the Princess, you'll delve into the Abyss and learn the mysteries of the King and his now-ruined kingdom. In a world without words, what hope is there for humanity?

Why similar: RPG 99.4%, Action 0.3%, Atmospheric 0.1%, Story Rich 0.1%, Singleplayer 0%

Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.

Why similar: Adventure 17.3%, Indie 11.5%, Platformer 11.3%, Action 9.4%, Great Soundtrack 9.3%

An RPG set in a distant, lonely future. Follow Arem, a young man lured from his small island community to explore the desolate megastructure beneath it: “The Well.” With the simple goal of finding the exit, Arem will burden himself with something more terrible than he ever thought possible.

Why similar: RPG 98.9%, Sci-fi 0.7%, Atmospheric 0.2%, 2D 0.2%

Delve into the world of Super Roboy, a hand-drawn Metroidvania in a post-apocalyptic setting! Learn enemy skills, explore an interconnected world, battle mutants and robots, and uncover the emotional story of a young robot searching for his father.

Why similar: RPG 93.7%, Robots 2.8%, Platformer 1.3%, Sci-fi 0.8%, Adventure 0.5%

Experience an immersive sci-fi adventure. Walk in the footsteps of the ill-fated crew members of the Miranda station. Explore a world cloaked in mystery and danger, solve clever puzzles to help discover the questions that...

Why similar: Adventure 26.8%, Sci-fi 25.5%, Platformer 14.2%, Horror 8.5%, Atmospheric 6.9%

The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.

Why similar: Sci-fi 33.3%, Adventure 27%, Indie 17.4%, Atmospheric 11.9%, Story Rich 10.4%

As Jack Argyle, you are tasked with restoring communication at the underwater ex-Aegis facility known as Phorcys Station. Be careful, or risk joining the spirits trapped inside.

Why similar: Robots 54.9%, Sci-fi 18.6%, Horror 8.8%, Adventure 6.5%, Story Rich 4.2%

A deep wordless metroidvania with 20+ hours of exploration through fog-covered ruins and the remnants of a lost world. Gain new abilities, uncover hidden paths and discover meaning without dialogue or guidance.

Why similar: Robots 41.2%, Platformer 22.7%, Sci-fi 13.2%, Adventure 8.3%, Atmospheric 6%

Traverse stunning pixel landscapes, collect resources, and solve genetic puzzles to bring life back to a desolate planet. Play as an android created by the last human in existence to retrace evolution and save the world from mass extinction, while discovering the true weight of the human condition.

Why similar: Sci-fi 57.3%, Adventure 26.3%, Story Rich 16.4%

Explore the ruins of the human race and discover the thriving wildlife that blossomed after our extinction in this underwater action/adventure. Encounter monstrous creatures and let curiosity guide you through an inevitable voyage of extinction.

Why similar: Adventure 40%, Action 24.6%, Indie 23.3%, 2D 9%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Welcome to the Afgarn Mansion. Don’t ask why it’s empty. Nor why the lights flicker. The more you ask, the more they’ll want to answer. Find your father. If you hear voices, don’t respond. The experiments are still inside. They know you entered. And they’re eager to have you close.

Why similar: Robots 59.3%, Horror 10.1%, Adventure 7.4%, Action 6.4%, Atmospheric 5.4%