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Single-player games like Beneath a Steel Sky (1994)

Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994), 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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    Beyond a Steel Sky — Steam game cover

    Beyond a Steel Sky

    Single-player alternative to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beneath a Steel Sky (1994).

    From multi-award winning Revolution comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, a groundbreaking 3D adventure thriller, set in an AI-driven future. Subvert the world, hack the systems and solve dark conspiracies to uncover the devastating truth.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    VirtuaVerse — Steam game cover

    VirtuaVerse

    Single-player alternative to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beneath a Steel Sky (1994).

    VirtuaVerse is a challenging old school cyberpunk point & click adventure set in a future not so far away narrating tales of technomancers, AVR graffiti writers, hacker groups, tribes of cryptoshamans, digital archeology, epic cyberwars and virtual reality debauchery.

    2020IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Welcome To Mars 9 — Steam game cover

    Welcome To Mars 9

    Single-player alternative to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beneath a Steel Sky (1994).

    You wake up in a luxurious space station orbiting Mars with no memory of your past. Explore, solve puzzles, and make ethical choices in this narrative adventure with multiple endings.

    2026IndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cybernetic Fault — Steam game cover

    Cybernetic Fault

    Single-player alternative to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beneath a Steel Sky (1994).

    Prove your ability to read names next to the big red buttons! Show your ability to fight for life in a science center that is falling apart from the consequences of an insane scientific experiment!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    beVaiR — Steam game cover

    beVaiR

    Single-player alternative to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Beneath a Steel Sky (1994).

    beVaiR is a unique combination of story and immersive VR strategy game. Become a neurohacker and modify the living network through strategic actions: collect energy, convert it according to your demands and shoot it at the nodes. Help your faction dominate!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sovietpunk: Chapter one — Steam game cover

    Sovietpunk: Chapter one

    Single-player alternative to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beneath a Steel Sky (1994).

    Sovietpunk is a cyberpunk story set in the setting of the Soviet Union after a global nuclear war. You have to guide the main character through the gloomy tunnels, in which the struggle for life is in full swing.

    2021IndieAdventureRPG0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    7 Meters away. Oscar and the Cell of the Soul — Steam game cover

    7 Meters away. Oscar and the Cell of the Soul

    Single-player alternative to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beneath a Steel Sky (1994).

    "7 Meters Away. Óscar and the Cell of the Soul" is a point and click demo game in which you must help Óscar escape from a mysterious cell by solving various puzzles to discover why he has been imprisoned before it's too late.

    2024IndieAdventure2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gemini Rue — Steam game cover

    Gemini Rue

    Single-player alternative to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beneath a Steel Sky (1994).

    Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.

    2011IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Samorost 3 — Steam game cover

    Samorost 3

    Single-player alternative to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beneath a Steel Sky (1994).

    Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.

    2016IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Myst — Steam game cover

    Myst

    Single-player alternative to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beneath a Steel Sky (1994).

    Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.

    2021IndieAdventureCasual34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    STASIS: BONE TOTEM — Steam game cover

    STASIS: BONE TOTEM

    Single-player alternative to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beneath a Steel Sky (1994).

    Get ready for a thrilling underwater adventure with classic point-and-click gameplay. Explore with three characters simultaneously. Featuring atmospheric isometric graphics, rendered video, and a soundtrack by Mark Morgan, BONE TOTEM takes you on a journey to hidden places deep below the waves...

    2023IndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Longest Journey — Steam game cover

    The Longest Journey

    Single-player alternative to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Beneath a Steel Sky (1994).

    The Longest Journey is an amazing graphical adventure, where the player controls the protagonist, April Ryan, on her journey between parallel universes.

    2007ActionAdventureRPG9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream — Steam game cover

    I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

    Single-player alternative to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Beneath a Steel Sky (1994).

    The adventure plunges you into the tortured and hidden past of five humans. Delve into their darkest fears. Outwit the Master Computer AM in a game of psychological warfare. Disturbing, compelling. An adventure you won't easily forget !!

    2013Adventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The 7th Guest — Steam game cover

    The 7th Guest

    Single-player alternative to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Beneath a Steel Sky (1994).

    Henry Stauf's mansion has been abandoned for as long as anyone dare remember. Stauf was a master toy maker, a maker of amazing puzzles and this strange house was his greatest creation. Now the mansion stands empty, rotting ever since the children started dying, ever since the six guests came.

    2013AdventureDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Day of the Tentacle Remastered — Steam game cover

    Day of the Tentacle Remastered

    Single-player alternative to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Beneath a Steel Sky (1994).

    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.

    2016Adventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Broken Sword: Director's Cut (2009) — Steam game cover

    Broken Sword: Director's Cut (2009)

    Single-player alternative to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Beneath a Steel Sky (1994).

    One of the all-time classic adventures, multi award winning "Broken Sword: Director's Cut" pitches sassy journalist Nico Collard, and intrepid American George Stobbart into a mysterious journey of intrigue and jeopardy.

    2010AdventureDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse — Steam game cover

    Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse

    Single-player alternative to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Beneath a Steel Sky (1994).

    From multi-award winning Revolution Software comes the latest explosive episode in this classic series. Playing as intrepid American George Stobbart and sassy French journalist Nico Collard, you find yourself on the trail of a stolen painting – and a murderous conspiracy...

    2013Adventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Broken Sword 2 - the Smoking Mirror: Remastered (2010) — Steam game cover

    Broken Sword 2 - the Smoking Mirror: Remastered (2010)

    Single-player alternative to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Beneath a Steel Sky (1994).

    ‘Broken Sword - The Smoking Mirror: Remastered’ is a stunning update to the multi million-selling original. A mysterious escapade of intrigue and deceit, in which journalist Nico Collard and her adventuring companion George Stobbart must overcome powerful forces from fulfilling their evil ambitions.

    2009AdventureCasual5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged — Steam game cover

    Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged

    Single-player alternative to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beneath a Steel Sky (1994).

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Broken Sword 3 - the Sleeping Dragon (2003) — Steam game cover

    Broken Sword 3 - the Sleeping Dragon (2003)

    Single-player alternative to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Beneath a Steel Sky (1994).

    An ancient conspiracy. A broken code. An unsolved murder. Welcome to Broken Sword – The Sleeping Dragon, the multi BAFTA-nominated adventure. Once more George and Nico must travel the world, wrestling danger, and piecing together the clues that will unravel the secrets of the Sleeping Dragon.

    2009Adventure5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Broken Sword - The Smoking Mirror: Reforged — Steam game cover

    Broken Sword - The Smoking Mirror: Reforged

    Single-player alternative to Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beneath a Steel Sky (1994).

    The classic award winning adventure returns in glorious 4K with fully remastered audio. Step into the shoes of intrepid tourist George Stobbart and sharp-witted journalist Nico Collard as they unravel a deadly Mayan conspiracy steeped in ancient artifacts and dark magic.

    2026IndieAdventureCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →