Single-player games like Twelve Minutes
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Twelve Minutes, 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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Eternal Threads
Single-player alternative to Twelve Minutes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Twelve Minutes.
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
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This rain will never end - noir adventure detective
Single-player alternative to Twelve Minutes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Twelve Minutes.
This rain will never end unless you discover who killed the mayor of the city!
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The Sexy Brutale
Single-player alternative to Twelve Minutes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Twelve Minutes.
The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...
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The Chambers
Single-player alternative to Twelve Minutes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Twelve Minutes.
Classical point and click and room escape game.
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Homebody
Single-player alternative to Twelve Minutes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Twelve Minutes.
An interactive thriller about a group of friends haunted by the memories of their past while being hunted by a relentless killer. From The Game Grumps (Dream Daddy)
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The Operator
Single-player alternative to Twelve Minutes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Twelve Minutes.
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
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The Drifter
Single-player alternative to Twelve Minutes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Twelve Minutes.
A Pulp Adventure Thriller - A murdered drifter awakens. Alive again, seconds before his death. Hunted and haunted, help him untangle a mad web of conspiracy in this fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Single-player alternative to Twelve Minutes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Twelve Minutes.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Twelve Minutes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Twelve Minutes.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Twelve Minutes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Twelve Minutes.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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STEINS;GATE
Single-player alternative to Twelve Minutes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Twelve Minutes.
Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, STEINS;GATE was awarded Famitsu magazine's coveted annual Game of Excellence award and was voted one of the most emotionally charged “tear-inducing games” ever made, in a Famitsu poll. It is a gripping and moving Visual Novel, which has already spawned manga and anime adaptations.
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Stray
Single-player alternative to Twelve Minutes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Twelve Minutes.
Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.
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Road 96 🛣️
Single-player alternative to Twelve Minutes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Twelve Minutes.
Hitchhike your way to freedom in this crazy procedurally generated road trip. No one's road is the same!
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Braid
Single-player alternative to Twelve Minutes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Twelve Minutes.
This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.
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The Invisible Hours
Single-player alternative to Twelve Minutes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Twelve Minutes.
The Invisible Hours is a complex murder mystery in VR, in which players freely explore an intricate web of interwoven stories within a sprawling mansion. This is not a game. This is not a movie. This is a piece of immersive theatre with many tangled threads.
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To the Moon
Single-player alternative to Twelve Minutes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Twelve Minutes.
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.