Single-player games like NORCO
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to NORCO, 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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Tails Noir
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORCO.
Tails Noir is a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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BROK the InvestiGator
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORCO.
An innovative adventure mixed with beat 'em up and RPG elements. In a grim world where animals have replaced mankind, what kind of detective will you be?
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Kathy Rain
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORCO.
Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.
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Gemini Rue
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORCO.
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
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The Drifter
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORCO.
A Pulp Adventure Thriller - A murdered drifter awakens. Alive again, seconds before his death. Hunted and haunted, help him untangle a mad web of conspiracy in this fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride.
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Chicken Police - Paint it RED!
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORCO.
A wild tale of love, death, chickens, and redemption! Chicken Police is a buddy-cop noir adventure with a carefully crafted world, a gritty story, and absurd humor. The game mixes classic adventure games with visual novel-style storytelling, presented in a beak-droppingly unique art style.
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The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORCO.
The Bookwalker is a narrative adventure in which you play as Etienne Quist, a writer-turned-thief with the ability to dive into books. Use your powers to journey between reality and book worlds, and steal legendary items like Thor's Hammer and Excalibur to restore your ability to write.
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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORCO.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
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Night in the Woods
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NORCO.
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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Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NORCO.
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.
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Pentiment
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NORCO.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
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Roadwarden
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORCO.
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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STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NORCO.
It is four thousand years before the Galactic Empire and hundreds of Jedi Knights have fallen in battle against the ruthless Sith. You are the last hope of the Jedi Order. Can you master the awesome power of the Force on your quest to save the Republic? Or will you fall to the lure of the dark side?
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A Space for the Unbound
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORCO.
A magical adventure about two high school sweethearts set at the end of their school days - and the end of the world. Explore a crumbling town and help friends face their inner demons, which could be the key to stopping reality itself disintegrating. And don’t forget to pet the cats.
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Citizen Sleeper
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORCO.
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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Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORCO.
KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway running through the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it.