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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Return of the Obra Dinn
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
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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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The Rise of the Golden Idol
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
The Award-winning detective saga returns in this standalone sequel to The Case of the Golden Idol. Uncover the truth behind 20 strange cases of crime, death and depravity in the 1970s. The world has changed dramatically - the sins of humanity have not.
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Roadwarden
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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Strange Horticulture
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
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Strange Antiquities
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Pentiment.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
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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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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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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!
- 13
Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
Uncover secrets of past lives in this story-rich, tactical roleplaying game set in Sigil, a dark fantasy city at the heart of the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse. Explore the planes, survive combat alongside a party of bizarre companions, and solve puzzles unlike any ever seen in the genre.
- 14
Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!
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The Blackwell Legacy
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.
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Torment: Tides of Numenera
Single-player alternative to Pentiment — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
Torment: Tides of Numenera is the thematic successor to Planescape: Torment, one of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games of all time. Immerse yourself in a single-player, isometric, story-driven RPG set in Monte Cook’s Numenera universe. What does one life matter? Find your answer.
- 17
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.
- 20
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.
- 21
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?
- 22
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.