Single-player games like Pentiment
Below are 24 single-player Steam games similar to Pentiment, 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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Expelled!
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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Sarawak
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
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Tron: Identity
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Pentiment.
Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
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Gerda: A Flame in Winter
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Pentiment.
You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?
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Chronique des Silencieux
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
Set in 1970s southern France, you play a rookie private eye tasked to dig out the secrets of a stubborn old man. Think on your feet while you follow your leads : ask questions to witnesses, detect their lies, hypothesize why and finally confront the silent ones running from their past.
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Night Book
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
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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江华号
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
《江华号》是一款国风水墨横版卷轴叙事游戏。1928年，武汉的大街小巷流传着一则“头七夜死者还魂”的诡异消息，引发各界关注。《楚城时报》新人记者虞慧龄奉命前去采访，却误打误撞，被种种谜团指引着登上了一艘名为“江华号”的豪华客轮。在那里，一段不为人知的隐秘往事渐渐浮出水面……
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The Séance of Blake Manor
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurrences.
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Elysium
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!
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The Banner Saga
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
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Night in the Woods
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.
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Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Pentiment.
12th century, England: In a time of poverty and war, a small town begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and safety for its people. In their struggle to survive, lives and destinies intertwine. Based on Ken Follett's world-bestseller ‘The Pillars of the Earth’.
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Citizen Sleeper
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
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Card Shark
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
Card Shark is an adventure game full of cunning, intrigue, and delectable deceit. Enter a world where you’ll need to play your opponents better than you play your cards.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
Story-driven open-world RPG that immerses you in an epic adventure in the Holy Roman Empire. Avenge your parents' death as you battle invading forces, go on game-changing quests, and make influential choices. Explore castles, forests, villages and other realistic settings in medieval Bohemia!
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The Case of the Golden Idol
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.
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Fallout: New Vegas
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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Grounded
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
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South Park™: The Stick of Truth™
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
From the perilous battlefields of the fourth-grade playground, a young hero will rise, destined to be South Park’s savior. From the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, comes an epic quest to become… cool. Introducing South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.For a thousand years, the battle has been waged.
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The Outer Worlds
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.
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STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
5 years after the events of the award winning original, the Sith are on the verge of crushing the Old Republic. As a lone Jedi, will you follow the light side or succumb to the dark?
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Grounded 2
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
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Pillars of Eternity
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.
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Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Patch 5.0 - Turn-based mode and The Ultimate challenge out now! Pursue a rogue god over land and sea in the sequel to the multi-award-winning RPG Pillars of Eternity. Captain your ship on a dangerous voyage of discovery across the vast unexplored archipelago region of the Deadfire.