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Games like M1: A Death in the Desert

2017PC2.99 €

You wake up as M with no memory in an abandoned hotel and follow a list of three names across a violent desert wasteland. Your choices decide how far you will go to uncover the truth.

  • Post-apocalyptic setting
  • Choices with consequences
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

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In short: Games like M1: A Death in the Desert

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes M1: A Death in the Desert special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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The Walking Dead: Michonne

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2016USK 18PCPlayStationXboxSteam Deck playable80 % positive14.79 €

Brings what grabs you about M1: A Death in the Desert: a post-apocalyptic setting, choices with consequences and a dark atmosphere.

A short three-episode Telltale mini-series focused on Michonne's grief, guilt and inner demons. You make dialogue-driven choices and handle quick-time-event fights in a bleak zombie apocalypse.

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The Descendant

Post-apocalyptic setting

An episodic story-driven adventure set in an underground Ark after the apocalypse, where your decisions affect survivors while you uncover a larger conspiracy.

The Walking Dead: Season Two

Post-apocalyptic setting

You play as Clementine, now forced to survive on her own in a brutal zombie apocalypse, and make tough moral calls that shape relationships and fates. It's a bleak, emotional narrative adventure with a comic-book look.

The Walking Dead

Post-apocalyptic setting

An episodic narrative adventure where Lee protects young Clementine through a zombie apocalypse, forced into agonizing timed moral decisions. The bond between the two makes it one of the most emotionally powerful games of its kind.

The Walking Dead: The Final Season

Post-apocalyptic setting

Clementine's story reaches a moving finale as she fights for a future at an isolated school while raising AJ, whose personality is shaped by your choices. It's an emotional, comic-styled narrative adventure with more hands-on action than earlier seasons.

The Bottom of the Well

Strong, story-driven narrative

A short, heavily branching narrative game in which Alice recounts a vivid dream of the end of the world to a friend. Each path through the ruined city leads to different outcomes, so replaying is the point.

No, I'm Not A Human

Post-apocalyptic setting

You are holed up at home while a disaster reshapes the world, and you must decide whom to let in each night, since not every visitor is human. A tense game of observation, paranoia and consequential decisions.

Shardlight

Strong, story-driven narrative

A grim point-and-click adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world, where a young woman infected with a deadly plague hunts for a cure in an oppressive society. Inventory puzzles and conversations drive the story.

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