Steam Deck games like Shardlight
Below are 9 Steam Deck-friendly games similar to Shardlight (9 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.
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Ranked picks
- 1
Unavowed
Deck Verified alternative to Shardlight — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil. No matter what the cost.
- 2
Technobabylon
Deck Verified alternative to Shardlight — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.
- 3
Blackwell Deception
Deck Verified alternative to Shardlight — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
Street psychics. Their blinking neon signs are everywhere, promising love and wealth and happiness. They make a fortune preying on the gullible and milking them dry. So when these victims begin dying and leaving confused spirits behind, it can only take a genuine psychic (and her wayward spirit guide) to clean up the mess.
- 4
Resonance
Deck Verified alternative to Shardlight — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.
- 5
Primordia
Deck Verified alternative to Shardlight — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.
- 6
The Blackwell Legacy
Deck Verified alternative to Shardlight — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.
- 7
Blackwell Epiphany
Deck Verified alternative to Shardlight — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
The last game in the Blackwell series.
- 8
Blackwell Unbound
Deck Verified alternative to Shardlight — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
The year is 1973. The sound of a lone, ethereal saxophone drifts over the Roosevelt Island promenade, while a series of accidents plague a midtown construction site. The citizens of Manhattan take no notice of these events, let alone think they are connected.
- 9
Gemini Rue
Deck Verified alternative to Shardlight — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.