Single-player games like The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, 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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VIDEOVERSE
Single-player alternative to The Excavation of Hob's Barrow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Excavation of Hob's Barrow.
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
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东方心之解束~Saving from the devil
Single-player alternative to The Excavation of Hob's Barrow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Excavation of Hob's Barrow.
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Mucorales
Single-player alternative to The Excavation of Hob's Barrow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Excavation of Hob's Barrow.
An enthralling RPG Maker horror game that explores a dark and twisted rendition of the classic fairy tale, Red Riding Hood.
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Rumu
Single-player alternative to The Excavation of Hob's Barrow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Excavation of Hob's Barrow.
Rumu is an intimate, narrative-driven adventure that follows the path into sentience of a robot vacuum cleaner.
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IMMORTALITY
Single-player alternative to The Excavation of Hob's Barrow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Excavation of Hob's Barrow.
Marissa Marcel was a film star. She made three movies. But none of the movies were ever released. And Marissa Marcel disappeared. An interactive trilogy from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story.
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If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
Single-player alternative to The Excavation of Hob's Barrow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Excavation of Hob's Barrow.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.
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The Cat Lady
Single-player alternative to The Excavation of Hob's Barrow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Excavation of Hob's Barrow.
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
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Lorelai
Single-player alternative to The Excavation of Hob's Barrow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Excavation of Hob's Barrow.
The little she had was taken away, but Lorelai refuses to give up, she will fight. And not even death will stop her from getting it all back...
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#WarGames - Season 1 - Eko
Single-player alternative to The Excavation of Hob's Barrow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Excavation of Hob's Barrow.
You shape the story as Kelly (aka L1ghtman) and her clan of misfit hackers transform from pranksters to international hacker celebrities, taking on the powers that be under the handle #WarGames. #WarGames is a new interactive show from Sam Barlow.
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The Wire Man
Single-player alternative to The Excavation of Hob's Barrow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Excavation of Hob's Barrow.
The Wire Man is a difficult 2d platformer game where you use wires to get to the goal point.
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The Witch
Single-player alternative to The Excavation of Hob's Barrow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Excavation of Hob's Barrow.
The Witch is a first-person indie game in the genre of adventure with elements of horror. In it you are a journalist who has to solve the mystery of the disappearance of the inhabitants of the village of Hoer Verde.
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Football Game
Single-player alternative to The Excavation of Hob's Barrow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Excavation of Hob's Barrow.
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 Excavation of Hob's Barrow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Excavation of Hob's Barrow.
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 Excavation of Hob's Barrow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Excavation of Hob's Barrow.
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 Excavation of Hob's Barrow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Excavation of Hob's Barrow.
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!
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The Terrible Old Man
Single-player alternative to The Excavation of Hob's Barrow — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Excavation of Hob's Barrow.
Experience a bite-sized slice of Lovecraftian horror in this updated version of our cult freeware point and click adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's classic short story.