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Games like Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure

If Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure is your kind of game, the closest matches are Heaven's Vault, The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2 and OXENFREE II: Lost Signals — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure: A simple choice-driven roguelike RPG, set in the desert. You're a line man that's stolen the company truck, in search of enlightenment. Roll your dice, and get into trouble.

2025IndieRPGCasual14.99 USDWindows · macOS · Linuxby Forward Instinct
Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure — Steam game cover

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  1. Heaven's Vault

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.

    2019IndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    The Dream Machine is an award-winning point & click adventure game about exploring other people's dreams. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.

    2012IndieAdventureCasual3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. OXENFREE II: Lost Signals

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    Five years after the events of OXENFREE, Riley returns to her hometown of Camena to investigate mysterious radio signals. What she finds is more than she bargained for.

    2023IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway running through the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it.

    2013IndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. THE LONGING

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    An unusual mix of adventure and idle game. In utter loneliness deep below the surface, it's your task to wait for the awakening of your king... for 400 days.

    2020IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    MATCH DNA BUBBLES IN AN UNDERGROUND LAB TO KEEP YOUR PSYCHIC CLONE FROM INVADING YOUR MIND AND TURNING YOU INTO A CANNIBAL. This is the match-3 survival horror comedy RPG metroidvania you didn't know you needed.

    2025StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Esoteric Ebb

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    Esoteric Ebb is a single-player CRPG inspired by the freedom of tabletop adventures. Unravel a political conspiracy with your goblin sidekick. Roll dice in tense encounters. Become a cleric of legends or completely ruin the campaign.

    2026IndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Rue Valley

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    Rue Valley is a narrative adventure about a man trapped in a time loop, surrounded by a colorful cast with complex emotional stories, each hiding unexpected secrets. Dealing with mental challenges, the main character must delve into the anomaly to uncover its enigmatic origins.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Heaven's Vault

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.

    2019IndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. OXENFREE II: Lost Signals

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    Five years after the events of OXENFREE, Riley returns to her hometown of Camena to investigate mysterious radio signals. What she finds is more than she bargained for.

    2023IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway running through the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it.

    2013IndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. THE LONGING

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    An unusual mix of adventure and idle game. In utter loneliness deep below the surface, it's your task to wait for the awakening of your king... for 400 days.

    2020IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    MATCH DNA BUBBLES IN AN UNDERGROUND LAB TO KEEP YOUR PSYCHIC CLONE FROM INVADING YOUR MIND AND TURNING YOU INTO A CANNIBAL. This is the match-3 survival horror comedy RPG metroidvania you didn't know you needed.

    2025StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Esoteric Ebb

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

    Esoteric Ebb is a single-player CRPG inspired by the freedom of tabletop adventures. Unravel a political conspiracy with your goblin sidekick. Roll dice in tense encounters. Become a cleric of legends or completely ruin the campaign.

    2026IndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure

How much does Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure cost?
Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure are Heaven's Vault, The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2, OXENFREE II: Lost Signals.
Who developed Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure?
Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure was developed by Forward Instinct.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Broke Signal Badlands: A World of Desert Adventure.

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