Games like The Empty Desk
Games like The Empty Desk include Firewatch, What Remains of Edith Finch, Outer Wilds, Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter, and L.A. Noire. We matched them by the tags players give The Empty Desk on Steam (Adventure, Story Rich, Exploration, Mystery, and Detective): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

Firewatch
Shared: Adventure · Story Rich · Mystery

What Remains of Edith Finch
Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Adventure

Outer Wilds
Shared: Exploration · Story Rich · Adventure

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Shared: Adventure · Story Rich · Detective

L.A. Noire
Shared: Adventure · Detective · Story Rich

The Painscreek Killings
Shared: Mystery · Exploration · Detective

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
Shared: Adventure · Detective · Mystery

Murders on the Yangtze River
Shared: Adventure · Story Rich · Detective

CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs
Shared: Story Rich · Adventure · Exploration

Return of the Obra Dinn
Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Detective

Blue Prince
Shared: Exploration · Mystery · Story Rich

The Forgotten City
Shared: Adventure · Exploration · Mystery

Unheard - Voices of Crime
Shared: Mystery · Detective · Story Rich

Contradiction: Spot The Liar
Shared: Detective · Crime · Mystery

Syberia: The World Before
Shared: Adventure · Story Rich · Exploration

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Shared: Mystery · Exploration · Detective

The Case of the Golden Idol
Shared: Mystery · Detective · Story Rich

The Mermaid Mask
Shared: Adventure · Detective · Interactive Fiction

Pentiment
Shared: Story Rich · Adventure · Interactive Fiction

Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs
Shared: Story Rich · Exploration · Mystery

Sherlock Holmes Chapter One
Shared: Story Rich · Detective · Mystery

Heavy Rain
Shared: Story Rich · Adventure · Detective

Draugen
Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Adventure

Strange Horticulture
Shared: Mystery · Detective · Adventure