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2024PCPlayStationXboxSteam Deck playable82 % positive11.79 €

You set out for HaustVille, an abandoned settlement in a post-apocalyptic world, and try to uncover where its last survivors vanished. The game focuses on exploring and slowly piecing together its mystery rather than on combat.

  • Post-apocalyptic setting
  • Lots to discover
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
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The closest matches for Once Alive are Some Distant Memory, 35MM and Opus: Rocket of Whispers. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Once Alive special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Some Distant Memory

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2019PCNintendo Switch93 % positive9.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Once Alive: a post-apocalyptic setting, lots to discover and a strong story.

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.

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35MM

Dark, serious atmosphere

A quiet, atmospheric walking-sim style journey through a deserted post-apocalyptic Russia, focused on exploration, mood and taking photos rather than combat.

Opus: Rocket of Whispers

Accessible and relaxed

You wander snowy wastelands as survivors of a dying world, gathering rocket parts to send the dead off on a final journey to the stars. A calm, emotional narrative adventure with a moving soundtrack and a melancholic mood.

Cloud Climber

Accessible and relaxed

A small, atmospheric indie adventure in which you explore humanity's last monuments as one of the few survivors, coming to terms with a bleak future.

Paradise Lost

Post-apocalyptic setting

An atmospheric first-person narrative adventure in which you wander a vast underground bunker in an alternate post-war world, confronting grief, loss and retrofuturistic technology. The pace is slow and gameplay takes a back seat to the story.

Shardlight

Dark, serious atmosphere

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.

A Second Before Us

Dark, serious atmosphere

You play a nameless serial-numbered person in the last bastion of a shattered Earth, slowly uncovering the truth behind that world. A small, story-driven indie adventure with a bleak sci-fi mood.

The Old City: Leviathan

Post-apocalyptic setting

You wander as a reclusive sewer dweller through the decaying ruins of a long-gone civilization. The story unfolds almost entirely through the environment and your character's musings, with no combat at all.

Beautiful Desolation

Post-apocalyptic setting

An isometric point-and-click adventure set in a surreal, post-apocalyptic Africa, where two brothers uncover a family story after a mysterious monolith appears. Its strengths are atmosphere, a striking look and exploration.

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