Games like It Returned To The Desert
Games like It Returned To The Desert include The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, Old Skies, The Roottrees are Dead, Firewatch, and Outer Wilds. We matched them by the tags players give It Returned To The Desert on Steam (Adventure, Turn-Based Tactics, Retro, Mystery, and Interactive Fiction): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Shared: Adventure · Point & Click · Interactive Fiction

Old Skies
Shared: Adventure · Interactive Fiction · Point & Click

The Roottrees are Dead
Shared: Mystery · Point & Click · Adventure

Firewatch
Shared: Adventure · Mystery · Exploration

Outer Wilds
Shared: Adventure · Mystery · Exploration

Endacopia
Shared: Adventure · Point & Click · Exploration

Desktop Explorer
Shared: Point & Click · Mystery · Adventure

Songs of Conquest
Shared: Turn-Based Tactics · Turn-Based Strategy · Adventure

The Rewinder
Shared: Adventure · Mystery · Pixel Graphics

Thimbleweed Park™
Shared: Adventure · Point & Click · Retro

The Case of the Golden Idol
Shared: Mystery · Point & Click · Interactive Fiction

The Room 4: Old Sins
Shared: Adventure · Mystery · Point & Click

Pentiment
Shared: Adventure · Interactive Fiction · Mystery

Strange Horticulture
Shared: Mystery · Adventure · Point & Click

The Drifter
Shared: Point & Click · Mystery · Pixel Graphics

Syberia: The World Before
Shared: Adventure · Point & Click · Mystery

The Darkside Detective
Shared: Adventure · Point & Click · Mystery

The Room
Shared: Mystery · Adventure · Point & Click

NORCO
Shared: Point & Click · Mystery · Pixel Graphics

The Forgotten City
Shared: Adventure · Mystery · Exploration

The Mermaid Mask
Shared: Adventure · Point & Click · Interactive Fiction

The House of Da Vinci
Shared: Mystery · Adventure · Point & Click

Kathy Rain
Shared: Adventure · Point & Click · Mystery

Narita Boy
Shared: Adventure · Retro · Mystery