Single-player games like Hourglass: Prologue
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Hourglass: 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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Dead Watch
Single-player alternative to Hourglass: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourglass: Prologue.
You're stuck in a time loop ⌛. Whenever you find a dead body, you go back to the past. The only way to escape the loop is to cheat destiny & change the future. Explore the castle and uncover its dark secrets to prevent the next killing.
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Escape Protocol
Single-player alternative to Hourglass: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourglass: Prologue.
Survive a shifting ship consumed by an anomaly. Explore, manage resources, unlock routes, and face unspeakable horrors in a survival roguelike with classic horror DNA
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5 Days
Single-player alternative to Hourglass: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourglass: Prologue.
Five days is a fully open world, no limits time travel puzzle adventure. This game isn't just a time loop of the same day on repeat, this game lets you travel between five different days. Use your knowledge of the future and ability to travel to the past to assassinate a heavily defended king.
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ChronoTecture: The Eprologue
Single-player alternative to Hourglass: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourglass: Prologue.
ChronoTecture: The Eprologue is an indie FPS adventure game created by an architectural designer. Discover a surreal world and story about Cats, Time-Travel, Life, Death, and Dreams. Featuring gameplay with futuristic archery, time-control, exploration, and platforming.
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Mai: Child of Ages
Single-player alternative to Hourglass: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Hourglass: Prologue.
Travel through time and help Mai and her Grandfather uncover the mysteries of the world after the Last Great War. Explore the connections between ancient eras and dystopian futures in an adventure that blends thrilling combat with precision platforming.
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Hourglass
Single-player alternative to Hourglass: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourglass: Prologue.
In Hourglass you can create a time-clone of yourself to solve challenging puzzles. You will play as Aywa, a young adventurer who is traveling to Egypt to find her missing father - an archeologist, who never returned from his latest expedition.
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What Lies in the Multiverse - Prologue
Single-player alternative to Hourglass: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourglass: Prologue.
Experience the first hour What Lies in The Multiverse. A bombastic puzzle platformer about worlds turned inside out. Shift dimensions at the push of a button, solve brain-twisting logistical riddles, and race through the wilds of the multiverse in a bleakly & hilarious story.
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Twelve Minutes
Single-player alternative to Hourglass: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourglass: Prologue.
An interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop. Featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe.
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Solarpunk™
Single-player alternative to Hourglass: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourglass: Prologue.
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
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Balloon Flight
Single-player alternative to Hourglass: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Hourglass: Prologue.
Balloon Flight is a crazy First-Person Arcade Game where you can spawn and pop balloons wherever you want. Jump on on your glider and fly as far as possible before time runs out!