Single-player games like The Expanse: A Telltale Series
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to The Expanse: A Telltale Series, 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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Star Trek: Resurgence
Single-player alternative to The Expanse: A Telltale Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Authentic Star Trek adventure from former members of Telltale Games. Engage in diplomacy, pilot shuttlecraft, and use your tricorder and phaser to overcome challenging puzzles and deadly threats. Tough decisions will impact relationships, your story, and the fate of the galaxy. What will YOU do?
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The Walking Dead: The Final Season
Single-player alternative to The Expanse: A Telltale Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
A secluded school might finally be Clementine’s chance for a home, but protecting it will mean sacrifice.
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Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong
Single-player alternative to The Expanse: A Telltale Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Play as 3 vampires, wield their powers wisely, and strike the right balance between your human and animal side in a heart-pounding story in which your choices will decide the fate of Boston.
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The Outer Worlds 2
Single-player alternative to The Expanse: A Telltale Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
The Outer Worlds 2 is the sequel to the award-winning first-person sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment.
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Life is Strange: Before the Storm
Single-player alternative to The Expanse: A Telltale Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.
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Angels with Scaly Wings™ / 鱗羽の天使
Single-player alternative to The Expanse: A Telltale Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
You, the player, are an ambassador for Earth sent through a mysterious portal into the world of dragons. Explore a town full of secrets and the people who keep them in this compelling sci-fi visual novel with slice of life and dating sim elements.
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Twin Mirror
Single-player alternative to The Expanse: A Telltale Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
The small town of Basswood will be changed forever by ex-investigative journalist Sam Higgs in this thrilling narrative experience from award-winning studio DON'T NOD. Will you find the truth – no matter the cost?
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Life is Strange: Double Exposure
Single-player alternative to The Expanse: A Telltale Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive - and still in danger! With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to The Expanse: A Telltale Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Lord of the Rings: War in the North
Single-player alternative to The Expanse: A Telltale Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Work together or die alone in this epic quest to turn the tides in the War of the Ring.
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The Walking Dead
Single-player alternative to The Expanse: A Telltale Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
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The Wolf Among Us
Single-player alternative to The Expanse: A Telltale Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
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Tales from the Borderlands
Single-player alternative to The Expanse: A Telltale Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
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New Tales from the Borderlands
Single-player alternative to The Expanse: A Telltale Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Decide the fates of altruistic scientist Anu, her ambitious, "streetwise" brother Octavio, and the fierce, frogurt-slinging Fran. Claw and con your way through five thrilling chapters!
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Mass Effect (2007)
Single-player alternative to The Expanse: A Telltale Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
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The Expanse
Single-player alternative to The Expanse: A Telltale Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
You and your team are elite killers. Its your job to help defend and protect earth and inform us of your findings. The South East Spaceport have reported nightmareish zombies. The most unsettling thing is that people have changed and will not stop eating each other.
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Life is Strange: True Colors
Single-player alternative to The Expanse: A Telltale Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
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Life is Strange Remastered
Single-player alternative to The Expanse: A Telltale Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
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Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered
Single-player alternative to The Expanse: A Telltale Series — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Expanse: A Telltale Series.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm returns with remastered visuals across characters & environments.