Single-player games like Vessels
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Vessels, 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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Decade
Single-player alternative to Vessels — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vessels.
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear. Seed new movements, destroy others. Subvert the rise and fall of empires, art, ideologies, and individuals in this experimental narrative game.
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Everlasting Snooze
Single-player alternative to Vessels — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vessels.
You lost your memory of nothing but a mundane day. But why do mysterious men keep jamming into your life, all of them pointing to the day you forgot? Find out a hypnotherapy clinic receptionist's memory of an insignificant day in this BL visual novel.
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Greed and Fear and the Rest
Single-player alternative to Vessels — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vessels.
You are ready to say goodbye to life, but are you prepared to face your life's truth? Navigate a grad student's life between greed and fear in his final 6 hours (and beyond) in this BL visual novel.
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Pechka: Historical Story Adventure
Single-player alternative to Vessels — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Vessels.
This game portrays the tragic history of war in a 2D adventure format, set against real events. It provides a realistic experience, encompassing themes of betrayal, death, and love, while also offering multiple endings driven by player choices. Discover the impact of this era's tragedy firsthand.
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The Last Night Train
Single-player alternative to Vessels — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vessels.
A story-driven puzzle adventure about Ovid searching for Thera, his love who vanished aboard a train where the night never ends—but what if she was never the one he needed to find?
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Thing-in-Itself
Single-player alternative to Vessels — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vessels.
“Thing-in-Itself” is a short interactive story about the struggles of understanding another human being. Using Immanuel Kant’s concept as a framework, it leads the player through stages of a relationship, exploring how perceptions may clash and surroundings can alter.
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SEASON: A letter to the future
Single-player alternative to Vessels — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vessels.
Leave home for the first time to collect memories before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything away. Ride, record, meet people, and unravel the strange world around you in this third-person meditative exploration game.
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Anamorphine
Single-player alternative to Vessels — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vessels.
Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.
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Tacoma
Single-player alternative to Vessels — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vessels.
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
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The Station
Single-player alternative to Vessels — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vessels.
The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.
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Observation
Single-player alternative to Vessels — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vessels.
Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.
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Still There
Single-player alternative to Vessels — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Vessels.
Every day is the same on the faraway Bento space-lighthouse - until a mysterious radio message breaks through. Evade the past, welcome oblivion, make the perfect Italian coffee. Still There is a psychological adventure game about grief, technical puzzles, wacky AIs and dark humour. How far is far enough?