Games like The Descendant
If The Descendant is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: A New Frontier and Republique — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its available at steep discounts, atmospheric and contemplative. 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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Players who liked The Descendant also play
Steam players who put hours into The Descendant also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
The Walking Dead
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Descendant.
Top pick for The Descendant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Descendant.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Descendant.
Second-strongest match for The Descendant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Descendant.
After society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier?
Republique
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Descendant.
Third-strongest match for The Descendant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Descendant.
Help a woman named Hope escape in a thrilling and topical stealth-action game that explores the perils of government surveillance in the Internet Age.
The Fall
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Descendant.
Ranked #4 for The Descendant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Descendant.
Take the role of ARID, the artificial intelligence within a high-tech combat suit. The Fall is a unique combination of adventure-game puzzle solving and side-scroller action, all set within a dark and atmospheric story. Get ready for a disturbing journey as you explore the world of The Fall.
Repella Fella
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Descendant.
Ranked #5 for The Descendant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Descendant.
Repella Fella is an interactive, point and click, choose your own adventure. This cinematic tale is set in a post-apocalyptic, futuristic Australia. Alternate between 3 intertwining stories. Replay the game multiple times to attempt different solutions and achieve every possible ending.
The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Descendant.
Ranked #6 for The Descendant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Descendant.
The Uncertain is an story-driven adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Experience the mysterious vibe of each of carefully explored locations, solve diverse puzzles, make fateful decisions and discuss intriguing matters to find out the whole truth being kept from you.
The Wolf Among Us
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Descendant.
Ranked #7 for The Descendant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Descendant.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
Dispatch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Descendant.
Ranked #8 for The Descendant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Descendant.
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Descendant
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The Walking Dead
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Descendant.
Reviewers of The Descendant cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Descendant.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
Myst
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Descendant.
Reviewers of The Descendant cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Descendant.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
Mass Effect (2007)
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Descendant cross-mention this title as a similar play.
As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
Life is Strange Remastered
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Descendant cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Descendant.
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Descendant.
Reviewers of The Descendant cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Descendant.
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series contains all 4 Seasons, 400 Days, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, which includes over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 unique episodes.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Descendant at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Descendant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Descendant.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Descendant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Descendant.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Descendant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Descendant.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Descendant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Descendant.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Descendant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Descendant.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Descendant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Descendant.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Descendant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Descendant.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Descendant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Descendant.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 The Descendant.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Descendant.
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Descendant.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Descendant.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Descendant.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Descendant.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 The Descendant.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Descendant.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Walking Dead
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Descendant.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Descendant.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Descendant.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Descendant.
After society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier?
Republique
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Descendant.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Descendant.
Help a woman named Hope escape in a thrilling and topical stealth-action game that explores the perils of government surveillance in the Internet Age.
Dispatch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Descendant.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Descendant.
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!
Frequently asked about The Descendant
- Is The Descendant verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Descendant is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Descendant cost?
- The Descendant is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Descendant?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Descendant are The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, Republique.
- Who developed The Descendant?
- The Descendant was developed by Gaming Corps AB and published by Microids Indie, Microids.
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 The Descendant.
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