Single-player games like Vessels
Below are 11 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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TR-49
Single-player alternative to Vessels — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Vessels.
A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret. Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Overboard!, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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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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The Swapper
Single-player alternative to Vessels — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vessels.
What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.
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Empathy: Path of Whispers
Single-player alternative to Vessels — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vessels.
Empathy: Path of Whispers is an atmospheric and story-driven adventure game where you explore a seemingly abandoned world through the emotions and memories of the people who once inhabited it, trying to restore the world’s lost balance by journeying through its past.
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Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Single-player alternative to Vessels — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vessels.
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
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Expelled!
Single-player alternative to Vessels — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vessels.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to Vessels — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Vessels.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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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?
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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.