Burning Daylight similar games & best alternatives

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Burning Daylight

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2019

Should you play it?

Waking up naked in a slaughterhouse, you must escape and travel through a dystopian world to uncover the truth of your origins. Burning Daylight is a sci-fi adventure game, set in a dystopian future with light puzzle elements and environmental storytelling.

What works

  • Beautiful and immersive visuals
  • Thought-provoking dystopian story
  • Free to play
  • Strong environmental storytelling
  • Short and accessible experience

Things to keep in mind

  • Minimal gameplay and interaction
  • Clunky controls and technical glitches
  • Very short duration
  • Lack of polish and optimization
  • Linear with limited player agency

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • The Monster Inside

  • Gravity Bone

  • Greetings

  • Project Hailstorm

  • Caligo

  • Homeless

Less idle-friendly

Games that feels like Burning Daylight but with less of an idle filler feel

  • SHE WAS 98

  • Rogue Reaper

  • Aurora: A Child's Journey

  • Firework

  • Devolverland Expo

  • Last Stop

More autonomous

Games that feels like Burning Daylight but with more freedom over how you play

  • Off-Peak

  • File Destined

  • State of Mind

  • >observer_

  • I'm counting to 6...

  • The Mirror Lied

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  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Burning Daylight. These titles are not in What to play next.

Burning Daylight: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Experimenting, Competence, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Progression, Continuation.

Last update: 21/08/2026