Single-player games like The Terrible Old Man
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to The Terrible Old Man, 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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The Dragon Blossom
Single-player alternative to The Terrible Old Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Terrible Old Man.
Beat reporter Birdie Malone goes undercover as Hollywood star Clara Bow to stop a masked culprit from stealing The Dragon Blossom in this 1930's point and click whodunnit.
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The Chrono Jotter
Single-player alternative to The Terrible Old Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Terrible Old Man.
Rewind time to save your girlfriend in a twisted high school death game. A gripping yuri visual novel: Investigate brutal murders, unravel psychological horrors, and fight for a forbidden love that defies death itself.
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Loretta
Single-player alternative to The Terrible Old Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Terrible Old Man.
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
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Telling Lies
Single-player alternative to The Terrible Old Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Terrible Old Man.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
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Night Book
Single-player alternative to The Terrible Old Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Terrible Old Man.
Tricked into reading an ancient book, Loralyn summons a demon into her home. Night Book is an interactive occult thriller movie, created in lockdown, from the publishers of The Complex, Five Dates and Maid of Sker.
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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Single-player alternative to The Terrible Old Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Terrible Old Man.
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the soil...
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The Apocalypse Sacrifice
Single-player alternative to The Terrible Old Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Terrible Old Man.
As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years. Every choice you make will shape the story and become part of your personality test. Will you be the hero who saves the villagers, or will you sacrifice them to create your own legend?
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FILTHY US
Single-player alternative to The Terrible Old Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Terrible Old Man.
《残秽的我们》是一款本土手绘写实风格的恐怖冒险游戏，以真实事件为蓝本改编。在游戏中，玩家将跟随女主“无者”的脚步，深入由亡者怨念而产生的“怨秽地”，利用“刻印”的力量，探究隐藏其中的一段真实往事。
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Football Game
Single-player alternative to The Terrible Old Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Terrible Old Man.
You are Tommy, a local high school football hero in the town of East Bend. It’s game night for the Purchase County Turbines and your sweetheart is waiting in the bleachers. Join Tommy for a night you won’t forget...
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Sumatra: Fate of Yandi
Single-player alternative to The Terrible Old Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Terrible Old Man.
Lost and alone after a terrible landslide, Yandi must find his way home in this old-school point and click adventure set deep in the Sumatran jungle! Will he make it out alive?
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A Date in the Park
Single-player alternative to The Terrible Old Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Terrible Old Man.
A short and mysterious free point and click adventure game, inspired by the feeling of oddness in an everyday situation.
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Legend of Hand
Single-player alternative to The Terrible Old Man — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Terrible Old Man.
Legend of Hand tells the story of a hero on an epic quest to find the mythical Grandmaster Hand, the one man who can restore peace to a troubled world. Inspired by point and click adventure classics, Far-East legends and martial arts beat 'em up games of the 80's and 90's!