Single-player games like Old Skies
Below are 16 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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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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Syberia: The World Before
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
Embark on a quest for identity through time, as you piece together the puzzle of two lives.
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Kathy Rain
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.
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Eternal Threads
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
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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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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 Roottrees are Dead
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
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Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
Single-player alternative to Old Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Old Skies.
The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.
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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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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 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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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!