Single-player games like Escape Quest
Below are 7 single-player Steam games similar to Escape Quest, 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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Escape Simulator 2
Single-player alternative to Escape Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Escape Quest.
Sequel to the best-selling escape room game, brings a fresh take on first-person puzzles with a variety of new rooms to explore solo or with friends. Solve intricate puzzles, uncover hidden secrets, or craft your own escape rooms with Room Editor 2.0.
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Scelestum
Single-player alternative to Escape Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Escape Quest.
Scelestum is a single or multiplayer mystery game. Solve puzzles and collect evidence of monster attacks, to identify the correct one which has attacked. Use various items and your own wits to uncover the truth of what is happening, and prove you have what it takes to be a monster investigator.
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The Lost Castle: Escape Room
Single-player alternative to Escape Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Escape Quest.
Medieval Escape Room with Online Co-op. Wake up in a jail cell of a long-forgotten castle filled with mysteries and mind-braking puzzles. Seven rooms to challenge yourself with the mysteries of the lost castle before the timer runs out!
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Haunting Hour
Single-player alternative to Escape Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Escape Quest.
Cooperate in this Cross-platform Multiplayer Virtual Reality Escape Room to escape the Witch’s Castle. Pit your wits against twisted puzzles and crazy challenges as you and your fellow imprisoned ghosts race against time. There's only an hour until the Haunting Hour begins, will you make it out?
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Escape Memoirs: Safe House
Single-player alternative to Escape Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Escape Quest.
"Escape Memoirs: Safe House" is a co-operative reverse escape-room puzzle game. You are a member of a criminal organization who must break into one of their own safe houses to fetch some important tools. Do you think you have what it takes to overcome the puzzles that stand in your way?
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Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist
Single-player alternative to Escape Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Escape Quest.
"Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist" is a co-operative atmospheric reverse escape-room puzzle game. You are a master thief who has been hired to rob a mysterious mansion, filled with various puzzles. Do you think you have what it takes to conquer the challenges that await you in the mansion.
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Escape Simulator
Single-player alternative to Escape Quest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Escape Quest.
First-person puzzler you can play solo or in an online co-op. Explore a set of highly interactive escape rooms. Move furniture, pick up and examine everything, smash pots and break locks! Play thousands of community-made rooms through the level editor.