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2016PCSteam Deck verified89 % positive14.99 €

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

  • Post-apocalyptic setting
  • Choices with consequences
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

The closest matches for The Descendant are The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day, The Uncertain: Light at the End and Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Descendant special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day

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2016PCPlayStationNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable76 % positive8.19 €

  • Post-apocalyptic setting
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

A story-driven point-and-click adventure in which you play a curious maintenance robot in a post-apocalyptic world, solving puzzles and uncovering the truth behind humanity's extinction.

Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier

Choices with consequences

You guide an ape troop and a band of human survivors through a new story set between two Planet of the Apes films in the Rocky Mountains. Your moral choices carry real consequences as the two groups collide in a striking landscape.

The Walking Dead: Season Two

Choices with consequences

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

Choices with consequences

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.

Shardlight

Post-apocalyptic setting

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.

Primordia

Post-apocalyptic setting

A classic point-and-click adventure set in a decaying world of robots, where you play Horatio and his sarcastic companion Crispin solving puzzles and uncovering the secrets of a vanished humanity. A bleak post-apocalyptic setting meets dry humor and philosophical themes.

Some Distant Memory

Post-apocalyptic setting

As the Professor, you search the ruined wastes for the sunken city of Houston while a toxic algae bloom closes in on humanity's last colonies. Its strength lies in a quiet, melancholic story and the bond with the AI companion ARORA.

The Walking Dead: The Final Season

Choices with consequences

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.

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