Single-player games like NORCO
Below are 17 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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Victorian Dread
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORCO.
In this gothic point-and-click adventure, Eleanor Rosewood must confront a vampire haunting Victorian London. Gather evidence and seek help from the city’s diverse populace, each hiding their own secrets, in this atmospheric mystery.
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Castle Dornstein
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORCO.
Castle Dornstein is a Gothic mystery adventure. Travel to Bohemia with Hemlock, a young scholar hired to translate a mysterious medieval text, The Devil’s Diary. When the book goes missing, everyone becomes a suspect and you must explore a castle where a dark history lurks in the shadows.
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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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Chinatown Detective Agency
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NORCO.
Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.
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The Silver Crow
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORCO.
You play Conrad - executioner, outcast, and the last man anyone would trust to solve a murder. A handcrafted adventure steeped in Renaissance atmosphere, occult shadows and moral ambiguity. A point & click mystery in a city where truth is buried, power decides guilt, and someone is always watching.
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Blue Detective: A Hotel in Scarlet
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORCO.
As a gothic detective, you solve mysteries with your colorful sidekick. Everyone you meet in this bizarre world has a peculiar disease. A unique talent, or a mere curse? You must get to the bottom of it all. Investigate murders, search for clues and complete the puzzle.
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Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORCO.
On the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street, all is not what it seems. What role will you play in a city's fate?
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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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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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Elysium
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORCO.
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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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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Silenus
Single-player alternative to NORCO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with NORCO.
Uncover the secrets of an oil refinery operated by an obscure organization in this short, atmospheric narrative adventure.