Single-player games like New Tricks for Old Gods
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to New Tricks for Old Gods, 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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Luminous Threads: A Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to New Tricks for Old Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with New Tricks for Old Gods.
You are Juno, a teenage girl getting evidence to clear her brother's name. Choose who helps you solve the mystery. With multiple endings, some scenes are flashbacks to the past. Your actions there may even change who committed the crime, with what, and where!
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BUZZ or DIE
Single-player alternative to New Tricks for Old Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with New Tricks for Old Gods.
The rules are simple. Dive into your opponent's mindscape and search for secrets. Turn those secrets into content and make a short video. Gain the most Likes from the audience to win.
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THE 13th Digit
Single-player alternative to New Tricks for Old Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with New Tricks for Old Gods.
In a rain-soaked megacity, one law remains: cross one trillion dollars in hidden wealth and you forfeit your right to live. You are K, the executioner who enforces it — until the numbers start to lie. A branching cyberpunk noir with 5 endings, where every choice is remembered.
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反转21克
Single-player alternative to New Tricks for Old Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In 2055, "You", the retired soldier king, was assassinated by a comrade who once fought side by side. His peaceful life was suddenly broken. In order to find the truth, he was involved in a series of bizarre murders.
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Minds Beneath Us
Single-player alternative to New Tricks for Old Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with New Tricks for Old Gods.
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
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The Red Strings Club
Single-player alternative to New Tricks for Old Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with New Tricks for Old Gods.
The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.
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Astronaut: The Best
Single-player alternative to New Tricks for Old Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with New Tricks for Old Gods.
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
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Blake: The Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to New Tricks for Old Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with New Tricks for Old Gods.
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
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Green: An Orc's Life
Single-player alternative to New Tricks for Old Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A life-simulation card-swiper. Grow an orc. Pilot it through a life of pillage, plunder and gluttony. Build up your horde, become filthy-rich with loot, even become a god!
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Shattering Obsidian
Single-player alternative to New Tricks for Old Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
An RPG inspired by the classics, and based upon a series of published stories. A deep, character-driven adventure, in a Fantasy-Steampunk world of betrayal and intrigue.
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Through the Kill Screen
Single-player alternative to New Tricks for Old Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with New Tricks for Old Gods.
Through the Kill Screen, an Adventure-RPG about 1980s kids discovering what slumbers beyond the final levels of their favourite computer games. Drink a Slushie, win a Thumb War and save Snoring Town from a sinister conspiracy.