Single-player games like The Corruption Within
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to The Corruption Within, 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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The Crimson Diamond
Single-player alternative to The Corruption Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Corruption Within.
Follow amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple to the ghost town of Crimson, Ontario to investigate the discovery of a massive diamond in this retro-inspired, EGA text parser mystery adventure!
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Resonance
Single-player alternative to The Corruption Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.
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Home
Single-player alternative to The Corruption Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.
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The Tartarus Key
Single-player alternative to The Corruption Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Corruption Within.
There’s no way out for Alex Young who wakes up to find herself locked in a strange mansion filled with puzzles, traps, and cameras following her every move. Whether she and her companions live or die, and find the truth behind their abduction, is up to you in this first-person mystery thriller.
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The Horror Of Salazar House
Single-player alternative to The Corruption Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with The Corruption Within.
Will you solve the mystery of the Salazar manor or will you become another permanent inhabitant? An Italian horror inspired adventure game!
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An English Haunting
Single-player alternative to The Corruption Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Corruption Within.
While looking for the existence of the Great Beyond, Professor Patrick Moore, aided by a fake medium, will build a device to see the other side, embark on a search for a millenary artifact, and investigate the most haunted manor of 1907 England.
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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Single-player alternative to The Corruption Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Corruption Within.
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the soil...
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Thimbleweed Park™
Single-player alternative to The Corruption Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
In Thimbleweed Park, a dead body is the least of your problems. Switch between five playable characters to uncover the surreal secrets of this strange town in a modern mystery adventure game from the creators of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets.
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Void Breach
Single-player alternative to The Corruption Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
Void Breach is a low-res, retro point-and-click adventure game where an experiment has gone unpredictably wrong. Your daughter is whooshed through a tear in space! Embrace the void and follow her. The only way to bring her back.
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Cyber Seraph
Single-player alternative to The Corruption Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Corruption Within.
The alien invaders have launched their final offensive on an already crippled Terra. Only one brave pilot can turn the tide of war. Cyber Seraph is a boss focused vertical shoot 'em up with unlockable abilities.
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Blood Nova
Single-player alternative to The Corruption Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
Princess Love is set to assume the throne of a powerful galactic empire. But when conspirators try to thwart her ascension, Love and her best friend Kel become stranded on an interstellar lighthouse. Prove Love worthy of rule in this thrilling point and click adventure game.
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Twilight Oracle
Single-player alternative to The Corruption Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
Journey to a strange world in search of the fabled Oracle in this fantasy comedy point & click adventure. Play as Leo, a struggling student with the ability to breathe underwater, and explore a desert island and the depths of an alien ocean to uncover your school’s dark past.
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Tachyon Dreams Anthology
Single-player alternative to The Corruption Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
Time itself is breaking up, and Dodger, the dishwashing dude onboard Penrose Space Station, is the unlikely fixer. Join the chaos in this 80s-style comedy, sci-fi text-parser adventure as Dodger tackles a cosmic crisis like no other! This version includes all three episodes + new extra content!
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Devil's Hideout
Single-player alternative to The Corruption Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
Devil's Hideout is a horror point and click adventure. Lauren learns from a mystic that her young sister is still alive, with cultists staging her death. Traveling to the hospital where her sister received care, Lauren plunges headfirst into a nightmare.
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Neon Hearts City
Single-player alternative to The Corruption Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Corruption Within.
A private investigator, tracking a missing person, uncovers a conspiracy between humans and androids and a secret that could change everything. Neon Hearts City is a retro point-and-click adventure that thrusts you into a grungy cyberpunk city of the future.