Light Years Apart
A rollicking adventure with pirates, spies, and snarky computers. Trade, sneak, and talk your way past a planetary blockade before it’s too late!
73% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
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If Lightstep Chronicles left you wanting something story-driven and mysterious, you have options. These games line up well for what comes next.
The Away Team: Lost Exodus
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Dark
73% of 101 Steam reviews are positiveFreeEvent[0]
Stranded on an empty spaceship, your only way home runs through Kaizen, a lonely, insecure AI who reads everything you type. Chat with it, explore a retrofuturistic ship, hack terminals and step outside for spacewalks. A short, atmospheric story that changes with how you treat your machine.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
79% of 1,468 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99Light Years Apart
A rollicking adventure with pirates, spies, and snarky computers. Trade, sneak, and talk your way past a planetary blockade before it’s too late!
Story-driven, Mysterious
73% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$5.99Subsurface Circular
A robot detective, a subway car full of strangers, and a mystery about missing workers. Subsurface Circular is a short, sharp text adventure where words are your evidence: collect phrases, spend them in conversation, and decide a city's future before the end of the line.
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94% of 1,496 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99i feel very lonely and i don't remember myself
A short sci-fi visual novel about four scientists trapped in an underground lab. Explore their chat records to uncover the mysteries of Inturg Technologies. How can they escape their doom?
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94% of 148 Steam reviews are positiveFreeAlone With You
Alone With You is a bittersweet sci-fi adventure game that goes right for the heart. Escape a doomed space colony with the help of your troubled AI companion and four chatty holograms in this unique blend of adventure & visual novel storytelling.
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78% of 79 Steam reviews are positive$9.99I doesn't exist - a modern text adventure
Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Dark
65% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$12.99Vessels
Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help you escape. Navigate volatile conversations & unravel mysteries in this narrative adventure about trust, self-destruction, & shifting identities.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Dark
95% of 117 Steam reviews are positive$0.99Return to Grace
A daring space archaeologist has just unearthed the ancient resting place of a long lost A.I. god known as Grace. Adventure with various fractured A.I. personalities as you uncover the great mystery of why she was shut down all those years ago.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
94% of 88 Steam reviews are positive$14.99The Fall of Lazarus
The Fall of Lazarus is first person exploration and puzzle game. A deeply narrative scifi mystery game based on the exploration of an abandoned cargo spaceship about redemption and second chances.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Dark
64% of 124 Steam reviews are positiveFreeThe Fall
You are the AI inside a combat suit, not the pilot. He is dying, your protocols demand you save him, and a buried, hostile world keeps getting in the way. A dark, atmospheric sci-fi adventure where bending your own rules is the puzzle, fully voice-acted and finished in one tight evening.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Dark
87% of 2,791 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Analogue: A Hate Story
A lost generation ship, thousands of years dead, and only its logs left to speak. Dig through the crew's records with two very different AIs, piece together what happened aboard the Mugunghwa, and choose which of them to trust. A dark, slow-burning mystery with five endings.
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94% of 1,702 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Cheaper than Lightstep Chronicles
Subsurface Circular
Play a robot detective riding an underground train, questioning passengers to solve a string of disappearances.
94% of 1,496 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99
Vessels
Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help…
95% of 117 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Universe Has No Favorites
Interactive fiction, visual novel adventure with point & click controls and AI-assisted illustrations.
100% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Space Station Adventure
Space Station Adventure: No Response From Mars is a science-fiction text-based, interactive adventure full of mysteries and twists!
$7.99
VERSUS: The Lost Ones
Steal alien powers and absorb their memories! Can you outlast your opponents to escape from planet Versus? An epic adventure in a new galaxy.
81% of 160 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Invincible
A hard sci-fi mystery on a dead alien planet. You are Yasna, an astrobiologist hunting for her missing crew across Regis III, armed with analogue…
87% of 10,585 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$8.99
Choice of the Star Captain
Fight on the front lines of the war between humanity and the hideous Blobs.
88% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Code 7: A Story-Driven Hacking Adventure
Try to save humanity in this episodic and fully voiced hacker story.
93% of 80 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Life of a Space Force Captain
Live a full life in the future as a human, an alien, or even a robot as you rise through the ranks to become captain of your very own starship.
85% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Quarantine Circular
In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching.
88% of 433 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized.
88% of 412 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$3.19
Hidden gems like Lightstep Chronicles
AI2U: With You 'Til The End
An escape room where the thing standing between you and the door is a yandere AI who loves you very much and would rather you not leave.
87% of 2,484 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 177$14.99
Nobody Nowhere
a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art.
93% of 172 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Arctic Awakening
A first-person narrative adventure set in the unforgiving Arctic.
84% of 335 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Whispers from the Star
Guide a stranded survivor through real-time conversation, where every word you choose can change what happens to her.
80% of 1,666 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Minds Beneath Us
Talk your way through near-future Taipei, sharing a body with its old owner's subconscious while every choice quietly reshapes where the story ends…
96% of 5,903 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99
i feel very lonely and i don't remember myself
A short sci-fi visual novel about four scientists trapped in an underground lab.
94% of 148 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized.
88% of 412 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$3.19
The Captain
In this retro-inspired adventure game you will have to race back home across the galaxy. Collect new friends on your journey. Make new enemies.
92% of 307 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
The Invincible
A hard sci-fi mystery on a dead alien planet. You are Yasna, an astrobiologist hunting for her missing crew across Regis III, armed with analogue…
87% of 10,585 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$8.99
Vessels
Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help…
95% of 117 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Monolith
A classical science fiction point and click adventure which takes you into a deep story and murky atmosphere, while solving logical puzzles.
74% of 326 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Still There
Every day is the same on the faraway Bento space-lighthouse - until a mysterious radio message breaks through.
87% of 774 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Newest games like Lightstep Chronicles
AI2U: With You 'Til The End
An escape room where the thing standing between you and the door is a yandere AI who loves you very much and would rather you not leave.
87% of 2,484 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 177$14.99
Never Gives Up Her Dead
Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship.
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Outsider
Shape humanity's future in a sci-fi narrative game where choices matter.
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Arctic Awakening
A first-person narrative adventure set in the unforgiving Arctic.
84% of 335 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Whispers from the Star
Guide a stranded survivor through real-time conversation, where every word you choose can change what happens to her.
80% of 1,666 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Nobody Nowhere
a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art.
93% of 172 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Universe Has No Favorites
Interactive fiction, visual novel adventure with point & click controls and AI-assisted illustrations.
100% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Minds Beneath Us
Talk your way through near-future Taipei, sharing a body with its old owner's subconscious while every choice quietly reshapes where the story ends…
96% of 5,903 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99
Fixer's Tale
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex.
100% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
CONSORTIUM
A murder mystery, on a plane, in the future. You are Consortium Bishop Six, a global peacekeeper in the year 2042.
75% of 591 Steam reviews are positive
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized.
88% of 412 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$3.19
The Invincible
A hard sci-fi mystery on a dead alien planet. You are Yasna, an astrobiologist hunting for her missing crew across Regis III, armed with analogue…
87% of 10,585 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$8.99