Single-player games like Old Skies
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Old Skies, 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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If Fusion Were That Easy
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
"If Fusion Were That Easy" is a humorous 2.5D point-and-click adventure about cold fusion and preventing the apocalypse. Explore a diverse world, master tricky puzzles and stop the inevitable.
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The World After
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
Set during a pandemic lockdown in France, The World After is a FMV adventure game experience that tells the story of a man who tries to uncover the truth behind his strange nightmares and the mystery of the village he's living in.
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Doki Doki AI Interrogation
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
A short interrogation game taking full advantage of ChatGPT! You are tasked with interrogating the suspect [AI] of a murder case as an [excellent police officer]. How you choose to interrogate the suspect is up to you. How the AI reacts is rendered in real-time through ChatGPT.
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Regular Factory: Escape Room
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
You don't work in a regular assembly line. In this escape room, you will investigate what is really being manufactured in a secret factory, explore mysterious places and solve puzzles. Will you discover the truth?
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Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
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Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
The award-winning point-and-click adventure returns in the Director's Cut with an extended story, additional puzzles, and new areas to explore. Witness the rise of an iconic detective as you uncover a dark and sinister truth hiding behind the calm exterior of a small rural town.
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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the soil...
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Heavy Rain
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
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Blackwell Unbound
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
The year is 1973. The sound of a lone, ethereal saxophone drifts over the Roosevelt Island promenade, while a series of accidents plague a midtown construction site. The citizens of Manhattan take no notice of these events, let alone think they are connected.
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The Shivah
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
Russell Stone is a Jewish Rabbi at a poor synagogue in New York City. He is a devout man with a problem. Membership is way down and he lacks the funds to keep his synagogue open. Things are looking very bleak, and he has grown progressively more cynical and bitter with the passage of time.
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Unavowed
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil. No matter what the cost.
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The Blackwell Legacy
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.
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Blackwell Epiphany
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
The last game in the Blackwell series.
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Shardlight
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
A post-apocalyptic adventure game from the publisher that brought you Primordia, Gemini Rue and Technobabylon! A young woman stricken with a deadly plague searches for a cure in a hostile world.
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Blackwell Convergence
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
The third game in the Blackwell series
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Blackwell Deception
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
Street psychics. Their blinking neon signs are everywhere, promising love and wealth and happiness. They make a fortune preying on the gullible and milking them dry. So when these victims begin dying and leaving confused spirits behind, it can only take a genuine psychic (and her wayward spirit guide) to clean up the mess.
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Emerald City Confidential™
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
<p>Work with the world's most cunning detective in the shadowy underbelly of the Emerald City of Oz! As Petra, you'll be lured deep into mysteries involving new foes and familiar faces; Scarecrow, Lion, and Toto included. This is Oz as you've never seen it before!