Single-player games like Cleo - a pirate's tale
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Cleo - a pirate's tale, 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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Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet
Single-player alternative to Cleo - a pirate's tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Pirate heroine Nelly Cootalot takes on the villainous Baron Widebeard in this point and click adventure game. Meet a hilarious cast of characters including Tom Baker (Dr Who) and face perplexing challenges in your search for the Treasure of the Seventh Sea.
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Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™
Single-player alternative to Cleo - a pirate's tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood, and the now zombie pirate LeChuck, return in what has long been considered one of the greatest LucasArts adventure games of all time.
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Orbital Cargo Division
Single-player alternative to Cleo - a pirate's tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
The crew of a cargo ship arrives at what appears to be an abandoned space station. Power appears to be there, but no one is responding to their radio messages. A pixel art point & click adventure with an exciting story and lots of humor.
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Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! HD
Single-player alternative to Cleo - a pirate's tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Nelly Cootalot is the stupidly named pirate adventurer with a heart of gold. Uncover corruption and wanton punning in this HD revival of a classic freeware adventure game.
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Crushed In Time
Single-player alternative to Cleo - a pirate's tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Embark on an adventure with Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson on this surprising and elastic point-and-click game. Grab, pull, and release to help them solve a bizarre investigation full of humor and meta-time travel!
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Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season
Single-player alternative to Cleo - a pirate's tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
While explosively stripping the evil pirate LeChuck of his demonic mojo, Guybrush Threepwood inadvertently infects the entire Caribbean with the arch-fiend's expelled voodoo, which threatens to transform buccaneers into unruly pirate monsters.
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The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Single-player alternative to Cleo - a pirate's tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Back by popular demand, The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition faithfully re-imagines the internationally-acclaimed classic game (originally released in 1990) for original and new audiences alike.
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Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die!
Single-player alternative to Cleo - a pirate's tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Hair metal's not dead, it just smells funny! Get your denim vest, bandana and makeup, and dive into a point-and-click adventure as a middle-aged teddy bear planning a comeback with his old glam metal band – in a world where glam metal has been dead and buried for decades.
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Return to Monkey Island
Single-player alternative to Cleo - a pirate's tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.
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The Darkside Detective
Single-player alternative to Cleo - a pirate's tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Flesh-hungry tentacles, mafian zombies, and the occasional missing sock are no match for The Darkside Detective.
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Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Single-player alternative to Cleo - a pirate's tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.