Steam Deck games like Bahnsen Knights
Below are 6 Steam Deck-friendly games similar to Bahnsen Knights (5 Verified, the rest Playable), ranked by player overlap. Every pick has Valve's compat stamp — Verified means full controller support and default settings just work; Playable means a small first-launch tweak (control remap or text size) gets you there. imho.run pulls compat status straight from Valve's own endpoint, refreshed daily.
Want the full alternatives list (paid + free + Steam Deck + cheaper picks)? See the parent games like Bahnsen Knights page.
Ranked picks
- 1
Radiolight
Deck Verified alternative to Bahnsen Knights — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bahnsen Knights.
Ashwood Creek, 1985. A child disappears without a trace. A local policeman is drawn into a national park, seeking the truth. Mysterious radio signals beckon him further and further. Investigate, survive and face the unknown in Radiolight— an '80s thriller by solo dev Krystof Knesl.
- 2
Night Book
Deck Verified alternative to Bahnsen Knights — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Bahnsen Knights.
Tricked into reading an ancient book, Loralyn summons a demon into her home. Night Book is an interactive occult thriller movie, created in lockdown, from the publishers of The Complex, Five Dates and Maid of Sker.
- 3
Expelled!
Deck Verified alternative to Bahnsen Knights — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bahnsen Knights.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
- 4
Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll
Deck Verified alternative to Bahnsen Knights — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bahnsen Knights.
Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll: the romanticism of the Eighties, mystery and intrigues, betrayal and sacrifice, hatred and passion — all this and more in the new game from the creators of the legendary visual novel Everlasting Summer!
- 5
BURIED STARS
Deck Verified alternative to Bahnsen Knights — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Bahnsen Knights.
A mystery adventure set at the collapse site of a live survival audition show. Trapped contestants communicate with each other—and the outside world through social media—as they wait for rescue. But as unexpected events unfold, trust begins to crack, and survival becomes far more complicated.
- 6
Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders
Deck Playable alternative to Bahnsen Knights — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bahnsen Knights.
A thrilling point-and-click adventure game where you play as Di Renjie, ancient China's most famous and gifted investigator, as he tracks a serial killer in the heart of the Tang Dynasty's capital city.