Single-player games like The Holy City
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Holy City, 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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Once Upon a Sea
Single-player alternative to The Holy City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Holy City.
Once Upon a Sea is a poetic, interactive XR documentary telling the tragic tale of the legendary Dead Sea.
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Hagia Sophia VR Experience
Single-player alternative to The Holy City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Holy City.
Hagia Sophia literally Holy Mosque of Hagia Sophia the Grand, and formerly the Church of Hagia Sophia, is a Late Antique place of worship in Istanbul, designed by the Greek geometers Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles.
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Paint To Pixel
Single-player alternative to The Holy City — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Paint To Pixel is a Virtual Reality exhibition that charts the history of UK graffiti. It features interviews with prominent UK artists and personal photo archives that cover 6 decades of graffiti writing.
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Floating with Spirits
Single-player alternative to The Holy City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Holy City.
In this cinematic virtual reality, magical stories are told by 2 young Mazatec, indigenous sisters, Jocelynne and Jaquelyne, who recall the ancestral knowledge and mystical cosmogony that their shaman grandmother used to share with them, in the misty mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico.
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The Museum of ThroughView
Single-player alternative to The Holy City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Holy City.
The Museum of ThroughView is a VR museum unlike anything else. This is the first time a virtual reality app showcases 2d to 3d conversions of famous paintings and old photographs. When looking at these paintings in VR, the paintings themselves can also be experienced in 3d.
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Solar System VR
Single-player alternative to The Holy City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Holy City.
An educational virtual reality journey through space. Be the first space tourist in history and explore planets and moons in our Solar System like never before. You can experience a journey to the Earth's moon, explore Mars, and even see the surface of Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons.
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EscapeVR: Trapped Above the Clouds
Single-player alternative to The Holy City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Holy City.
You find yourself trapped above the clouds - in a mile high building which is still partly under construction! Can you escape? Explore the environment, solve puzzles, investigate clues, and find your way through a total of 3 large areas to -hopefully- escape the penthouse of this VR escape room game.
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EscapeVR: The Basement
Single-player alternative to The Holy City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Holy City.
You find yourself locked in the cell of an unknown basement with nothing else than a bed and a toilet. Can you escape? Explore the environment, solve puzzles, investigate clues, and find your way through a total of 7 rooms to -hopefully- escape the basement of this VR escape room game.