Single-player games like Nighthawks
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Nighthawks, 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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Cabernet
Single-player alternative to Nighthawks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nighthawks.
Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist. Guide Liza, a young vampire in her new unlife among the unsuspecting townsfolk. Will you retain your humanity or descend further into the horror you have become?
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Scarlet Hollow
Single-player alternative to Nighthawks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nighthawks.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
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The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
Single-player alternative to Nighthawks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nighthawks.
He is a bandit who sells lives. She is a mute girl seeking revenge. In a famine-ravaged ancient China, a ruthless trafficker escorts four girls to a demon's feast. But when a deadly secret is revealed, a cold transaction turns into a journey of redemption. A dark visual novel about an unlikely bond.
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Vampyr
Single-player alternative to Nighthawks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Nighthawks.
London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York
Single-player alternative to Nighthawks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nighthawks.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York is a narrative experience set in the rich universe of Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition. It presents the struggle for power between two vampiric factions - the Camarilla and the Anarchs - bathed in the night lights of the Big Apple.
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Expelled!
Single-player alternative to Nighthawks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nighthawks.
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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Hunter: The Reckoning — A Time of Monsters
Single-player alternative to Nighthawks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Nighthawks.
Topple the vampires from the streets below! Will you unite the homeless, the gangs, and the secret hunter societies to defy vampiric rule? An interactive novel set in the World of Darkness extended universe.
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Road to Empress I
Single-player alternative to Nighthawks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nighthawks.
You've never played a game like this before. Road to Empress I is a cinematic palace adventure where your choices decide everyone's fate. Tackle multiple story branches and a high mortality rate with charm, wisdom and courage? First...survive.