Single-player games like Timequest
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Timequest, 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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Subsurface Circular
Single-player alternative to Timequest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
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The Crimson Diamond
Single-player alternative to Timequest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
Follow amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple to the ghost town of Crimson, Ontario to investigate the discovery of a massive diamond in this retro-inspired, EGA text parser mystery adventure!
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Stories Untold
Single-player alternative to Timequest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.
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Technobabylon
Single-player alternative to Timequest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.
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Whispers of a Machine
Single-player alternative to Timequest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
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BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION
Single-player alternative to Timequest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION is an isometric, point & click adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic future. Explore an unscene landscape, solve puzzles, meet new friends and make powerful enemies, mediate conflicts and fight for your life as you unravel the secrets of the desolate world around you.
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Resonance
Single-player alternative to Timequest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.
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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
Single-player alternative to Timequest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
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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Star Control III
Single-player alternative to Timequest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
The universe is on the brink of destruction. It’s up to you to embark on an epic adventure of strategy and diplomacy to save thousands of worlds from total annihilation. But no pressure, right?
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Eric The Unready
Single-player alternative to Timequest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
Eric the Unready established his reputation by impaling his instructor during jousting class. Then, when Princess Lorealle the Worthy is kidnapped, Eric begins a madcap quest through his hilarious fantasy world packed with horrible beasts!
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Mission Critical
Single-player alternative to Timequest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
THE ULTIMATE GAME OF SURVIVAL... The hull of your crippled vessel has ruptured, air is leaking into space, and weapons systems are down. Your mission could have ended fifteen years of interstellar war, but now - as the only remaining crewman - your first order of business is to stay alive...
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Spellcasting Collection
Single-player alternative to Timequest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
Steve Meretzky's trilogy of magic-themed collegiate text adventures-with-graphics for Legend. The sometimes-smutty but never-beyond-softcore stories put the player in the shoes of one Ernie Eaglebeak, a wizard-in-training at at Sorcerer University.
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Super Hero League of Hoboken
Single-player alternative to Timequest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Timequest.
The U.S. is a nightmare of toxic waste, melted ice caps, and desperate shortages of oat bran. Horrible mutations roam the countryside. Monsters spawned of radiation, environmental toxins, and unregulated bio-engineering. But a small group of Superheroes band together to the rebirth of a new society.