Games like Shardlight

If the dark and story-driven rhythm of Shardlight stuck with you, this helps. Start with these games when you are ready.

Richard & Alice
Richard and Alice are prisoners. Both their cells have a leather sofa and a state-of-the-art computer. But only Richard’s has a TV. Outside, the snow falls. It has done for some time. Elsewhere, they say, parts of the world have been rendered an inhospitable desert, the earth parched and cracked. People live in the zones now.
Dark, Story-driven, Retro
74% of 311 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Dustbowl
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.
Dark, Story-driven, Retro
76% of 109 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Eastward
Eastward is a pixel-art adventure about a quiet miner and a mysterious girl who escape their underground town and travel a collapsing world by rail. Fight with a frying pan, cook strange meals, meet odd people, and let a warm, funny, surprisingly touching story carry you across the continent.
Dark, Story-driven, Retro
83% of 14,464 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$12.49
The Uncertain: Light At The End
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 Humanity disappeared from the face of the Earth and has been replaced by robots.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.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
64% of 986 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Primordia
A point-and-click adventure about a stoic robot named Horatio whose stolen power core drags him and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin out of their quiet scrapyard life and into Metropol, a decaying city of machines. Sharp writing, real voice acting and multiple endings carry a story about what happened to humanity.
Dark, Story-driven, Retro
96% of 2,990 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99
Some Distant Memory
A hand-drawn story exploration game set 300 years after the apocalypse. You play an archaeologist named Professor Zay, joined by her companion, ARORA, a centuries-old AI capable of recreating human memories from scanned relics.
Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
93% of 249 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
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, Hand-drawn
77% of 595 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$0
White Shadows
A cinematic puzzle-platformer in striking black and white. Guide a little ravengirl through a brutal dystopian tower city, past grinding machinery and watching guards, as a wordless story about oppression slowly unfolds. Short, dark and atmospheric, built for players who play for mood and meaning.
Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
81% of 1,937 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
Rauniot
Rauniot is an isometric post-apocalyptic point and click adventure game which takes place to Northern Finland.
Dark, Story-driven, Retro
86% of 137 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive
The moon cracked in half and the world is dying, and you have four days to survive it. Fortify your shelter against each night's threat, race the in-game clock, and uncover what really happened. A post-apocalyptic point-and-click thriller where your choices decide who lives, and every playthrough brings new dangers.
Dark, Story-driven, Retro
98% of 2,225 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$14.99
Everdeep Aurora
An ongoing apocalyptic meteor shower has forced the world’s population to settle underground. As Shell, a feline child who awakens to find her mother missing, drill downward from the surface layer through a tile-based underground and discover the Everdeep.
Dark, Story-driven, Retro
88% of 176 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Survive the Blackout
Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose Your Own Adventure gameplay, squad-level management, exploration, scavenging, and difficult moral choices. A modern-day tribute to The Oregon Trail.
Dark, Story-driven, Retro
56% of 66 Steam reviews are positive$7.99

Cheaper than Shardlight

Richard & Alice

Richard and Alice are prisoners. Both their cells have a leather sofa and a state-of-the-art computer. But only Richard’s has a TV.

$5.99

Dustbowl

A post-apocalyptic adventure game set in a world where the player must search for food, water and essential supplies to survive.

$8.99

Eastward

Travel the rails with an unlikely pair, brawl with a frying pan, cook odd meals and meet the strange souls left behind.

$12.49

The Uncertain: Light At The End

The Uncertain is a story-driven adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

$9.99

Primordia

Play a loner robot hunting his stolen power core through a dead world full of talking machines.

$9.99

Some Distant Memory

A hand-drawn story exploration game set 300 years after the apocalypse.

$12.99

The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day

Humanity wiped itself out, and the robots inherited a quiet Earth.

$9.99

Survive the Blackout

Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world.

$7.99

BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION

BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION is an isometric, point & click adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic future.

$12.99

The Great Perhaps

The Great Perhaps is a time travel puzzle game about an astronaut returning to Earth destroyed by natural cataclysms.

$9.99

Alternativa

Alternativa is a story that will take you to a world much different to what you'd expect in 2045.

$12.99

Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today

Investigate a dying world where reality is falling apart, solving puzzles to uncover what happened before it is too late.

$9.99

Hidden gems like Shardlight

Roman Sands RE:Build

A service industry adventure with an apocalyptic flavor. A manic genre mashup told across two broken realities.

$11.99

Hail to the Rainbow

A lonely young man gets an email from the father he lost years ago, and drives a repaired Niva through a snowed-in, post-apocalyptic Soviet…

$14.99

Everdeep Aurora

An ongoing apocalyptic meteor shower has forced the world’s population to settle underground.

$19.99

Earth Must Die

These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom?

$8.79

RADIOSOL

Cross the ruins of a scorched world as a little mech, staying out of the light and listening for what is left.

$8.99

Repella Fella

Repella Fella is an interactive, point and click, choose your own adventure. This cinematic tale is set in a post-apocalyptic, futuristic Australia.

$17.99

Rauniot

Rauniot is an isometric post-apocalyptic point and click adventure game which takes place to Northern Finland.

$14.99

Return

Return to your home planet after 200 years of space travel in this atmospheric, art-driven adventure.

$15.99

After Us

Explore the corners of a surrealistic post-human world to give life on Earth a second chance in this touching story about sacrifice and hope.

$29.99

子夜之章:历史的终局～MidNights of Desperado～

The protagonist of this lonely life is you. You leave your hometown and come to a strange world. The world is prosperous and cold, strange but real.

$4.99

Noch

Go alone (or with a friend) to find the girl who destroyed the world.

$9.99

White Shadows

You play a small ravengirl climbing and descending a grim tower city, solving puzzles and staying out of sight on her way out.

$19.99

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