Single-player games like About Gretel
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to About Gretel, 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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Planet Explorers
Single-player alternative to About Gretel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
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Salt
Single-player alternative to About Gretel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.
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Nightingale
Single-player alternative to About Gretel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to About Gretel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
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Crashlands
Single-player alternative to About Gretel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to About Gretel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to About Gretel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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Starbound
Single-player alternative to About Gretel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
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Crib
Single-player alternative to About Gretel — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
It's time to face! As Milton, your past invites you to solve the mysteries. What you learn about yourself will surprise you. Most importantly remember that this is not a nightmare, this is a reality.