Games like Alternativa

If Alternativa scratched a dark and story-driven itch for you, keep reading. You will find a few strong contenders among these games.

Beneath a Steel Sky (1994)
After being abducted by brutal soldiers and his kinfolk butchered, Robert Foster finds himself in Union City - a vast metropolis under the tyranny of a fascist AI. Alone, save for the circuit board of his best friend, Foster must discover the sinister truth - and why they specifically came for him.
Dark, Story-driven, Mysterious
89% of 605 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Let Bions Be Bygones
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Dark, Story-driven, Mysterious
69% of 124 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Beyond a Steel Sky
A cyberpunk adventure from Revolution: you are Robert Foster, chasing a kidnapped child into Union City, a gleaming utopia run by a caring AI that may not be so caring. Hack its systems, outwit its citizens, unravel a conspiracy. Sharp, funny writing and comic-book art by Dave Gibbons.
Dark, Story-driven, Mysterious
87% of 1,305 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$34.99
The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day
Humanity wiped itself out, and the robots inherited a quiet Earth. You play RT-217NP, a tinkerer bot who switched off his mandatory updates and got curious about the extinct humans. Then a ship crashes in his yard. A story-driven point-and-click adventure with puzzles, fateful choices and a secret worth digging for.
Dark, Story-driven, Mysterious
75% of 1,683 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
The Sundew
You are Anna Isobe, a cyborg cop abandoned by progress and thrust into the midst of a global conspiracy. Experience classic point and click gameplay as you travel across the dark future, and make choices that will seal the fate of the world.
Dark, Story-driven, Mysterious
85% of 91 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
2064: Read Only Memories
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society
Dark, Story-driven, Mysterious
83% of 709 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
DreamBreak
Dreambreak is a story-driven adventure set in an alternative post-Cold War world, a quirky and unique mix of clashing gameplay genres. Get fingered for murder in without actually going there!
Dark, Story-driven, Mysterious
56% of 48 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
The Moment of Silence
The Moment of Silence is a classic point-and-click 3rd person adventure game set in New York City in 2044. Players step into the role of Peter Wright, an advertising executive currently heading up the Government's 'Freedom of Speech' campaign.
Dark, Story-driven, Mysterious
65% of 99 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Technobabylon
Newton, 2087: an AI runs the city, genetic engineering is routine, and a killer is harvesting minds. Three citizens, a cop, a case officer and a Trance addict, get pulled into a conspiracy that touches everything they believe. A fully voiced, pixel-art cyberpunk adventure with sharp writing and puzzles that often have more than one answer.
Dark, Story-driven, Mysterious
94% of 1,134 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Sinless + OST
"Before we knew it, what we once knew as 'freedom' became nothing more but a faint and distant memory." Venture forth and discover the truth behind the seemingly perfect OmniCare society in Sinless: a unique point and click and visual novel hybrid, set in an original cyberpunk reality.
Dark, Story-driven, Mysterious
79% of 182 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Descendant
The apocalypse came and went, and every Ark opened to restart humanity. Every Ark but one. Jump between two timelines, centuries apart: keep the frozen survivors of Ark-01 alive as they fail around you, then investigate what went wrong. A five-part story where your choices decide who lives.
Dark, Story-driven, Mysterious
77% of 595 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$0
Gemini Rue
An ex-assassin hunts his missing brother on a rain-soaked colony run by criminals, while a memory-wiped man plots escape from a facility that erases identities. A pixel-art noir adventure where two storylines twist together, and finding out what happens is the whole point.
Dark, Story-driven, Mysterious
86% of 1,266 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$9.99

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You play CDI agent Neil Conrad, working a murder case whose outcome depends on the evidence you gather and the reports you file.

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Paradise Lost

Explore a huge abandoned bunker in a post-apocalyptic Poland and uncover what happened to the people who lived there.

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Universe 25

A Pythonesque Indie point and click adventure game set in the year 2035.

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The Samaritan Paradox

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OMNIMUS

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Reversion - The Escape (1st Chapter)

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Peripeteia

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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure

You play CDI agent Neil Conrad, working a murder case whose outcome depends on the evidence you gather and the reports you file.

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Syberia: The World Before

Follow Kate Walker and Dana Roze across two eras, piecing together clues in a hand-painted steampunk world that unfolds at its own quiet pace.

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A classical science fiction point and click adventure which takes you into a deep story and murky atmosphere, while solving logical puzzles.

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Beneath a Steel Sky (1994)

After being abducted by brutal soldiers and his kinfolk butchered, Robert Foster finds himself in Union City - a vast metropolis under the tyranny…

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Beyond a Steel Sky

Chase a kidnapped child into a city run by an AI that seems too kind, hack its systems and unravel what is really going on.

$34.99

Minotaur

An adventure game with visual novel-style narrative, Minotaur tells a dark mystery story set in a newly created science fantasy world of synthets…

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A detective RPG without combat, set in 22nd century Warsaw where people live inside virtual worlds.

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