Single-player games like Open Roads
Below are 11 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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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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SEASON: A letter to the future
Single-player alternative to Open Roads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Open Roads.
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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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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Hindsight
Single-player alternative to Open Roads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Open Roads.
What if the physical objects of everyday life, the possessions we hold close, were actual windows to the past? Peer into distant memories and unseen futures in Hindsight.
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TR-49
Single-player alternative to Open Roads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Open Roads.
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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South of the Circle
Single-player alternative to Open Roads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Open Roads.
South of the Circle is a deep narrative experience of the emerging relationship between Peter and Clara, Cambridge academics involved in a political conflict. The story focuses on promises made in between career and true love, where our choices burdened by our past seem to be illusory.
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The Roottrees are Dead
Single-player alternative to Open Roads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Open Roads.
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
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despelote
Single-player alternative to Open Roads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Open Roads.
A slice-of-life adventure about childhood and the magical grip soccer held over the people of Quito, Ecuador in 2001.
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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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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.