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Single-player games like Open Roads

Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Open Roads, 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 Empty Desk — Steam game cover

    The Empty Desk

    Single-player alternative to Open Roads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Open Roads.

    Immerse yourself in a psychological thriller with narrative adventure elements and unsettling details. Join Detective Bennett on his final case and uncover dark secrets in a world where reality bends and sanity wavers.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual8.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Last Stop — Steam game cover

    Last Stop

    Single-player alternative to Open Roads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Open Roads.

    Last Stop is a single-player third-person adventure set in present day London, where you play as three separate characters whose worlds collide in the midst of a supernatural crisis.

    2021IndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dahlia View — Steam game cover

    Dahlia View

    Single-player alternative to Open Roads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Open Roads.

    A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.

    2021IndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Once Alive — Steam game cover

    Once Alive

    Single-player alternative to Open Roads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Open Roads.

    A story-driven, first-person adventure game offering a cinematic experience. Embark on a journey to HaustVille, an abandoned settlement in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore your surroundings and uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of the last survivors.

    2024IndieAdventure11.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Heavy Rain — Steam game cover

    Heavy Rain

    Single-player alternative to Open Roads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Open Roads.

    Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.

    2020ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    This Bed We Made — Steam game cover

    This Bed We Made

    Single-player alternative to Open Roads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Open Roads.

    This Bed We Made is a third-person mystery game in which you play as a maid in a 1950s hotel and snoop around strangers' rooms to uncover their deadly secrets. Discover what links guests together in this tale of love, heartbreak and murder!

    2023IndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Syberia: The World Before — Steam game cover

    Syberia: The World Before

    Single-player alternative to Open Roads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Open Roads.

    Embark on a quest for identity through time, as you piece together the puzzle of two lives.

    2022Adventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Goodnight Universe — Steam game cover

    Goodnight Universe

    Single-player alternative to Open Roads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Open Roads.

    From the creators of Before Your Eyes — You are Isaac, a 6-month-old baby, developing mysterious psychic powers. What you want most is to be loved and accepted by your family, but a secretive tech corporation wants you for their own.

    2025IndieAdventure19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tacoma — Steam game cover

    Tacoma

    Single-player alternative to Open Roads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Open Roads.

    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.

    2017IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mass Effect (2007) — Steam game cover

    Mass Effect (2007)

    Single-player alternative to Open Roads — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.

    2008ActionRPG5.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gone Home — Steam game cover

    Gone Home

    Single-player alternative to Open Roads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Open Roads.

    June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.

    2013IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Firewatch — Steam game cover

    Firewatch

    Single-player alternative to Open Roads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Open Roads.

    Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.

    2016IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →