Single-player games like Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Lost Brothers
Single-player alternative to Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game.
Lost Brothers is a single-player first-person adventure, taking place in an abandoned mine. All you have is a walkie-talkie and a map. Explore a mysterious forest and a labyrinth of underground passages to rescue a mysterious lady.
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Purpose 1951
Single-player alternative to Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game.
"Purpose 1951" is an almost pure walking simulator set in the United States of 1951. You play as a retired doctor whose life falls apart.
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Portrait of a Torn
Single-player alternative to Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game.
As a young soldier returning to an eerily deserted home, you'll explore enigmatic rooms and uncover a haunting, tragic story. Experience an atmospheric journey filled with suspense, mysterious encounters, and a deep narrative.
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Forgetter
Single-player alternative to Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game.
Forgetter is a destructive journey of pain, memory and artistry. In the future, creative minds can be inherited by clients’ newborns. You're hired to destroy unhealthy memories in the minds of deceased artists. Remember to smash everything. Don't let the artists’ remaining consciousness stop you.
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Back Then
Single-player alternative to Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game.
Back Then is a first-person narrative game taking place in the mind of Thomas Eilian, an elderly writer diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.
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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
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Life on the Hook
Single-player alternative to Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game.
Life on the Hook - is a short story about the life of a lonely fisherman named Hrafn, who lives his life in a small house on a lake with a dock and an old boat.
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WILL: Follow The Light
Single-player alternative to Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game.
Dive into a realistic, single-player, first-person journey through the harsh northern latitudes as you sail endless waters, searching for a way back to your loved ones. Will you follow the light?
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Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
Single-player alternative to Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a Narrative-Adventure game about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny.
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Road 96 🛣️
Single-player alternative to Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game.
Hitchhike your way to freedom in this crazy procedurally generated road trip. No one's road is the same!
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RIDE 5
Single-player alternative to Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Rev up your engine and get ready to hit the track with RIDE 5. An adrenaline-filled gaming experience that is so authentic it will make you feel like you're truly racing at break-neck speed.
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Road 96: Mile 0
Single-player alternative to Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game.
The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!
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The Great Jitters: Pudding Panic
Single-player alternative to Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game.
Puzzle a shivering jello through 48 levels of a haunted house. But beware! Scary monsters are waiting in the dark! Your only chance of survival is to scare the monsters back before the jello quivers, shivers and faints from fear. Fight evil witches, rattling skeletons and rusty knights with an arsenal of crazy weapons!
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Yerba Buena
Single-player alternative to Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game.
Dive into a surreal 1970s gameworld and save San Francisco from a sinister threat. Play as Barb, and use the Oscillator to capture and reapply the physical traits of objects to solve mind-bending environmental platforming puzzles.