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
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.
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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.
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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.
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Dimhaven - The Lost Source
Single-player alternative to Open Roads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Open Roads.
Are you ready for an adventure? Challenges, exploration and puzzles in a narrative driven experience, pick up your camera and test your wits in this first-person mystery by the team behind Quern!
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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.
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Lost & Found: A This Bed We Made Story
Single-player alternative to Open Roads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Open Roads.
Lost & Found is a standalone, short story game taking place aboard a 1960s transatlantic ship. Play as Sophie Roy in her new job as a stewardess, and help solve a curious series of thefts in this narrative-driven mystery set after the events of This Bed We Made.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.