Single-player games like Strange Horticulture
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Strange Horticulture, 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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Strange Antiquities
Single-player alternative to Strange Horticulture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
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Grunn
Single-player alternative to Strange Horticulture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
A gardener gets hired for maintenance work over the weekend. A simple task, but strangely some tools are missing… The owner of the garden isn't around, and their house is off-limits. Perhaps new tools can be found in the mysterious town, or maybe some of the reserved townsfolk have seen them?
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The Roottrees are Dead
Single-player alternative to Strange Horticulture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
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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Scarlet Hollow
Single-player alternative to Strange Horticulture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
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TR-49
Single-player alternative to Strange Horticulture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
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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The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
Single-player alternative to Strange Horticulture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!
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Return of the Obra Dinn
Single-player alternative to Strange Horticulture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
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The Séance of Blake Manor
Single-player alternative to Strange Horticulture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurrences.
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Wytchwood
Single-player alternative to Strange Horticulture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
Wytchwood is a crafting adventure game set in a land of gothic fables and fairytales. As the old witch of the woods, explore a strange countryside, collect magic ingredients, brew sorcerous spells, and pass judgement upon a capricious cast of characters.
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DREDGE
Single-player alternative to Strange Horticulture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.
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Plague M.D.
Single-player alternative to Strange Horticulture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
Plague M.D. is a medieval medicine simulator. Become a quack doctor stuck in a backwater village in the 16th century.
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SUNLESS SEA
Single-player alternative to Strange Horticulture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
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Cultist Simulator
Single-player alternative to Strange Horticulture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Strange Horticulture.
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
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Papers, Please
Single-player alternative to Strange Horticulture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Strange Horticulture — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Strange Horticulture.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?