Single-player games like Lacuna: Prologue
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Lacuna: Prologue, 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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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Single-player alternative to Lacuna: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lacuna: Prologue.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
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Biocybernetic Trap
Single-player alternative to Lacuna: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lacuna: Prologue.
Biocybernetic Trap — an interactive cyberpunk detective. You are given the quantum diary of a long-dead detective, where reality fractures into parallel versions of the investigation.
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Suas Escolhas - O Caso do Magnata Desaparecido
Single-player alternative to Lacuna: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lacuna: Prologue.
A noir detective gamebook where careless reading gets you killed. A tycoon has vanished: 4 suspects, 780 choices, 11 endings — 85% of all runs end in death or prison. Every clue you uncover stays in your case file forever. Originally written in Brazilian Portuguese. The case is yours.
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Death Becomes You - Mystery Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to Lacuna: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lacuna: Prologue.
Who killed your best friend?! Find out the truth before 4 suspects frame you instead! Death Becomes You is a mystery visual novel where you untangle the dark secrets and relationships between your fellow magic university students.
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The Wolf Among Us Remastered
Single-player alternative to Lacuna: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lacuna: Prologue.
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
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Hill Agency: PURITYdecay
Single-player alternative to Lacuna: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lacuna: Prologue.
Murdered sisters, mind altering drugs and flying cities, to a case that goes way further than the banks of this one detective's little neighbourhood in this Indigenous cybernoir detective narrative adventure set in a post-post-apocalyptical future.
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Let Bions Be Bygones
Single-player alternative to Lacuna: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lacuna: Prologue.
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
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Blake: The Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to Lacuna: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Lacuna: Prologue.
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
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Max Payne
Single-player alternative to Lacuna: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain…
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Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Single-player alternative to Lacuna: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a violent, film-noir love story. Dark, tragic and intense, the in-depth story is a thrill-ride of shocking twists and revelations. Love hurts.
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Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
Single-player alternative to Lacuna: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lacuna: Prologue.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
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From Ruins – A Detective Adventure
Single-player alternative to Lacuna: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lacuna: Prologue.
A new-gen detective adventure combining deduction gameplay with a gripping story full of twists and turns. Gather clues, establish connections, and solve a series of increasingly challenging cases. Will you uncover the feud that began at the end of the world?