Single-player games like Botty: Paper tales
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Botty: Paper tales, 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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Machinarium
Single-player alternative to Botty: Paper tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botty: Paper tales.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
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They Will Come
Single-player alternative to Botty: Paper tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Botty: Paper tales.
Survive a nightmare and save your family. They Will Come is a cinematic steampunk horror adventure set in an alternate 1897. You must avoid detection, solve puzzles, and fight back against mysterious enemies with the help of your powerful robot companion, Talus.
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3 Minutes to Midnight® - A Comedy Graphic Adventure
Single-player alternative to Botty: Paper tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botty: Paper tales.
In a race against time, Betty embarks on a thrilling, comedy-packed adventure to crack a conspiracy that starts with a bang and ends at 3 Minutes to Midnight.
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The Tiny Bang Story
Single-player alternative to Botty: Paper tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botty: Paper tales.
Life on Tiny Planet was calm and carefree until a great disaster occurred - Tiny Planet was hit by a meteor! The world fell apart and now its future depends only on you! Use your imagination and creativity: in order to restore Tiny Planet and help its inhabitants you will have to fix a variety of machines and mechanisms as well as solve...
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Life of Delta
Single-player alternative to Botty: Paper tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botty: Paper tales.
Embark on a journey through a vast post-apocalyptic environment, full of interesting characters and engaging puzzle games in this sci-fi point-and-click adventure game.
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One Way: The Elevator
Single-player alternative to Botty: Paper tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Botty: Paper tales.
One Way: The Elevator is a creative point-and-click game developed by CottonGame. You need to find a blue sphere in each scene to power an elevator to travel upward.
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Papetura
Single-player alternative to Botty: Paper tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botty: Paper tales.
Papetura is a short atmospheric adventure game, with unique world handmade entirely out of paper, and beautiful fragile music. It tells the story of two little creatures whose house is in danger of being burned down.
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Botanicula
Single-player alternative to Botty: Paper tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botty: Paper tales.
Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.
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Apartament 1406: Horror
Single-player alternative to Botty: Paper tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Botty: Paper tales.
Apartment 1406 is an intense horror game, that challenges you to constantly survive in a hostile environment. Collect items to survive against limited ammo and creatures that lurk in the dark. Solve the puzzles and survive in this dark game.
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THE IMPOSSIBLE
Single-player alternative to Botty: Paper tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Botty: Paper tales.
THE IMPOSSIBLE is a minimal perspective illusion puzzle game. You control a small square in the IMPOSSIBLE world and remember: nothing is IMPOSSIBLE.
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Play With Me: Escape Room
Single-player alternative to Botty: Paper tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Botty: Paper tales.
See how a game created by the very Jigsaw would look like! Use the available objects, outwit tricky illusions and optical puzzles and above all, answer the question – will you dare to Play with Me?
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Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet
Single-player alternative to Botty: Paper tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Botty: Paper tales.
Shop Tycoon is a store simulator. Create a supermarket, sex shop, games store or a store with good Polish vodka. Place your logo, hire employees, expand your car fleet, build offices and parking lots, create a chain of stores and more!
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Resoraki: The racing
Single-player alternative to Botty: Paper tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Botty: Paper tales.
Take the wheel of a toy car and race on beautiful tracks in Poland, Finland, Australia, and Greece. Compete in championships, arcade, and time trials. Play solo or with a friend online (Remote Play Together) or locally. Buy now and take part in unforgettable races!
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Rap Simulator: The Rap Game
Single-player alternative to Botty: Paper tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Botty: Paper tales.
Rap Simulator is primarily a game with a good dose of humor. The action starts in the 1980s. The player takes on the role of a rapper who sets up their first music studio in a rented apartment.
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Airhack: Hacking
Single-player alternative to Botty: Paper tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Botty: Paper tales.
You are a secret Agent who begins work for the Airem as Hacker. Hacking servers of global corporations for profit, stealing data, manipulate the stock market, modify peoples academic or criminal records, laundering money, erasing evidence, framing innocent people. Do not trust anyone.
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Candy Combat
Single-player alternative to Botty: Paper tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Botty: Paper tales.
Immerse yourself in a world of sweets, which is full of delicious candy. Beat the odds as a sweet frog to find Pinkie and Gingerbread man, to whom you need to explain some things.