Steam Deck games like Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure
Below are 12 Steam Deck-friendly games similar to Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure (11 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
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A Vampyre Story
Deck Verified alternative to Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure.
Help Mona De Lafitte escape from Baron Shrowdy von Kiefer and return to Paris!
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TSIOQUE
Deck Verified alternative to Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure.
TSIOQUE (pronounced: "chiock") is a dark but playful Point & Click adventure, hand-animated in meticulous, frame-by-frame 2D. Escape the clutches of an Evil Wizard and discover the secrets hidden within the spellbound castle of your ancestors.
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Thimbleweed Park™
Deck Verified alternative to Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure.
In Thimbleweed Park, a dead body is the least of your problems. Switch between five playable characters to uncover the surreal secrets of this strange town in a modern mystery adventure game from the creators of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets.
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Fran Bow
Deck Verified alternative to Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Indie with Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure.
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
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Tormentum - Dark Sorrow
Deck Verified alternative to Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Indie with Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure.
TORMENTUM is a dark Point & Click adventure game.The dreamlike, nightmarish atmosphere of the game was inspired by works of painters H.R. Giger and Zdzislaw Beksinski. The game's final look and feel was also strongly influenced by the universes of games such as Demon's Souls or Dark Seed.
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Anna's Quest
Deck Verified alternative to Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure.
With her telekinesis, unorthodox use of torture instruments, a knack for improvisation and the help of a shady fox she makes her way from the peaks of Glass Mountain to the deepest dungeon.
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Darkestville Castle
Deck Verified alternative to Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Indie with Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure.
Darkestville Castle — a darkly comedic point-and-click adventure where you play as a sarcastic demon. Solve clever puzzles, manipulate idiots, and bring chaos back to Darkestville, because being evil is just more fun.
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Slender Threads
Deck Verified alternative to Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Indie with Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure.
In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.
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Return to Monkey Island
Deck Verified alternative to Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure.
Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.
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Deponia
Deck Verified alternative to Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure.
In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence.
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Sam & Max Save the World
Deck Verified alternative to Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Indie with Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure.
An open-and-shut case of petty vandalism balloons into a far-flung mind-control conspiracy involving former child stars, the media, the mafia, the government, the internet, and the bright side of the moon. Telltale's episodic classic, lovingly remastered by members of the original development team.
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Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Deck Playable alternative to Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure.
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.