Games like King's Quest
If King's Quest is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, Day of the Tentacle Remastered and The Book of Unwritten Tales — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its humor and emotional depth, writing quality is exceptional and emotional. 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.
Get personalized picks →King's Quest is a point-and-click adventure game released in 2015 by The Odd Gentlemen, published by Sierra and Activision. The game follows an episodic structure across five chapters, using character interaction, choice-based storytelling, and puzzle-solving as its core mechanics. Players describe the experience as emotional, nostalgic, and whimsical, with reviewers highlighting both its humor and emotional depth alongside character development. The fantasy setting presents a coming-of-age story told through a collection of untold tales. Currently offered as a free-to-play title, the game is verified for Steam Deck and presents a challenging medium-length experience best suited for seated play in solo sessions. The title holds a 90% positive rating from over 2,200 Steam reviews.
About King's Quest: King’s Quest is a collection of five different chapter releases, each focusing on an untold tale in Graham’s past. Discover a wondrous world full of whimsical characters, charming puzzles and perilous dangers in this fun and enchanting coming of age story.
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The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
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Shares puzzle solving and a nostalgic mood with King's Quest.
Top pick for King's Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
Back by popular demand, The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition faithfully re-imagines the internationally-acclaimed classic game (originally released in 1990) for original and new audiences alike.
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
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Shares a nostalgic mood with King's Quest.
Second-strongest match for King's Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
The Book of Unwritten Tales
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Shares puzzle solving and a whimsical mood with King's Quest.
Third-strongest match for King's Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
In a world torn by war, the aged gremlin archaeologist Mortimer MacGuffin harbors the dark secret of a powerful artifact.
Back to the Future: The Game
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Shares puzzle solving and a nostalgic mood with King's Quest.
Ranked #4 for King's Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
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Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™
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Shares a whimsical mood with King's Quest.
Ranked #5 for King's Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
Wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood, and the now zombie pirate LeChuck, return in what has long been considered one of the greatest LucasArts adventure games of all time.
Maniac Mansion
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Shares a nostalgic mood with King's Quest.
Ranked #6 for King's Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
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The Night of the Rabbit
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Shares a nostalgic mood with King's Quest.
Ranked #7 for King's Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
Lose yourself in a tale of magic and wonder, where anything is possible and where nothing is quite as it seems: join young Jerry and follow a peculiar white rabbit to the wondrous realm of Mousewood, a land where critters can speak and where mystery abounds.
Broken Age
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Shares puzzle solving with King's Quest.
Ranked #8 for King's Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with King's Quest.
A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.
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The Longest Journey
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Shares puzzle solving with King's Quest.
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Space Quest™ Collection
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Shares a nostalgic mood with King's Quest.
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Experience a blast from the past with the complete, completely twisted Space Quest Collection.
The Night of the Rabbit
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Shares a nostalgic mood with King's Quest.
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Lose yourself in a tale of magic and wonder, where anything is possible and where nothing is quite as it seems: join young Jerry and follow a peculiar white rabbit to the wondrous realm of Mousewood, a land where critters can speak and where mystery abounds.
The Wolf Among Us
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Technobabylon
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Shares character interaction with King's Quest.
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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.
Tales from the Borderlands
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Shares an emotional mood with King's Quest.
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Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
Shardlight
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Shares puzzle solving with King's Quest.
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A post-apocalyptic adventure game from the publisher that brought you Primordia, Gemini Rue and Technobabylon! A young woman stricken with a deadly plague searches for a cure in a hostile world.
Unavowed
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Shares character interaction, puzzle solving and an emotional mood with King's Quest.
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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.
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Frequently asked about King's Quest
- Is King's Quest verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — King's Quest is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- Is King's Quest free to play?
- Yes — King's Quest is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to King's Quest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside King's Quest are The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, Day of the Tentacle Remastered, The Book of Unwritten Tales.
- Who developed King's Quest?
- King's Quest was developed by The Odd Gentlemen and published by Sierra, Activision.
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