Single-player games like Answer Knot
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Answer Knot, 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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Thirty Flights of Loving
Single-player alternative to Answer Knot — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Answer Knot.
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
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The Old City: Leviathan
Single-player alternative to Answer Knot — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Answer Knot.
The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.
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Anamorphine
Single-player alternative to Answer Knot — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Answer Knot.
Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.
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Gone Home
Single-player alternative to Answer Knot — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Answer Knot.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
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Jazzpunk: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Answer Knot — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Answer Knot.
Jazzpunk is a comedy adventure set in an alternate reality Cold War World, plagued with corporate espionage, CyberCrime, and sentient martinis. Gameplay is inspired by spoof comedy films and cartoons of yesteryear, with a focus on weird gadgets, exotic locales, and open-world style exploration.
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Home
Single-player alternative to Answer Knot — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Answer Knot.
Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.
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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to Answer Knot — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Answer Knot.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
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That Dragon, Cancer
Single-player alternative to Answer Knot — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Answer Knot.
An immersive, narrative videogame that retells Joel Green’s 4-year fight against cancer through about two hours of poetic, imaginative gameplay that explores themes of faith, hope and love.
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The Dropouts
Single-player alternative to Answer Knot — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Answer Knot.
A spooky choices-matter mystery set in 2004 Switzerland. Many students have disappeared in Noirmont High over the past century. You're Lou, you just transferred here, and weird stuff immediately starts happening... will you be the next dropout?
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Protocol: Best of Luck
Single-player alternative to Answer Knot — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Answer Knot.
Captain Edelmann has gone crazy and killed everyone except you. Escape the station and catch up with him before he leaves you behind forever on Naxos-4. Explore, solve puzzles, decide the captain's fate, and remember that none of this is real.