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A free, student-made survival game in the Atacama Desert where you explore abandoned mines, craft to endure the sun, and uncover mysteries in a tense, roughly five-hour adventure.

Helpless
A brief, atmospheric single-player post-apocalyptic adventure about a child protecting a sick mother from a lethal sun while exploring lost remnants.
2023-03-10
- Adventure

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Games like Arid

A free, student-made survival game in the Atacama Desert where you explore abandoned mines, craft to endure the sun, and uncover mysteries in a tense, roughly five-hour adventure.

Helpless
A brief, atmospheric single-player post-apocalyptic adventure about a child protecting a sick mother from a lethal sun while exploring lost remnants.
2023-03-10
- Adventure

Fear The Unknown - Dave Story

A short, suspenseful adventure simulation about surviving a UFO encounter, told from Dave's perspective.

2025-01-28

First person
Science fiction
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Simulator
Mystery

Aztlan Uncovered: Prologue

A free, very short single-player adventure exploring a frozen archaeological site with time-reversing abilities.

2022-07-28

Puzzle
Adventure
Third person
Indie

DeafBlind

A brief free-to-play single-player simulation of navigating a silent, dark world under sensory deprivation.

2024-05-23

Simulator

Spider Land

A free, single-player text-driven indie game with a dark post-apocalyptic tale about a spider haunting the hills, offering a short but gripping narrative.

2025-04-14

Indie
Visual Novel

Starsand

An open-world desert survival game with crafting, base construction, and mystic mysteries, offering a short, mixed-experience campaign.

2022-11-17

Action
First person
Adventure
Survival
Simulator

Ad Infernum

A tight ~4-hour single-player psychological horror about dark rituals and demonic pursuit at a desert gas station, praised for replay value.

2024-02-29

Action
First person
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Indie
Stealth

Under the Sand REDUX - a road trip simulator

A chill single-player road trip sim about driving and looting through a sandy world in around 10 hours.

2020-09-25

First person
Adventure
Survival
Indie
Simulator
Open world
Racing

Burning Daylight

A free, single-player sci-fi adventure set in a dystopian future, with light puzzles and environmental storytelling, lasting roughly an hour.

2019-04-19

Action
Adventure
Indie
Side view

Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game

A single-player story-driven survival farm RPG in 1860s Oregon, combining emotional narratives with farming, hunting, crafting, and base building across casual and challenge modes.

2023-04-02

Adventure
Survival
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Historical
Romance

Apocalypse Delivery Service

A compact post-apocalyptic courier survival-adventure about scavenging, deliveries, and escaping the city, with a well-paced story.

2024-06-18

Indie

Near Death

A single-player Antarctic survival story where you weather a deadly blizzard at an abandoned base, with a tense, atmospheric walking-sim feel.

2016-08-02

Action
First person
Adventure
Indie

Helpless