Single-player games like Orten Was The Case
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Orten Was The Case, 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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The Sexy Brutale
Single-player alternative to Orten Was The Case — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Orten Was The Case.
The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to Orten Was The Case — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Orten Was The Case.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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Eternal Threads
Single-player alternative to Orten Was The Case — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Orten Was The Case.
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
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Timemelters
Single-player alternative to Orten Was The Case — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Orten Was The Case.
Prevent Doomsday AFTER it happened! Designed by the co-creator of Sang-Froid - Tales of Werewolves and featuring both a single-player and co-op campaign, TimeMelters is a strategy hero defense where you go back in time and fight alongside your past selves.
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Omensight: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Orten Was The Case — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Orten Was The Case.
Omensight is an Action Murder Mystery game. In order to prevent the apocalypse, you are fated to repeat the last day of the world until it can be saved. Investigate clues, fight enemies, and solve the murder of the Godless-Priestess.
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Venture to the Vile
Single-player alternative to Orten Was The Case — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Orten Was The Case.
Dive into the strange town of Rainybrook, taken over by the “Vile” in this 2.5D metroidvania! Fight your way through treacherous terrains and defeat formidable bosses to absorb their powers! Will you save the town and find your missing friend Ella — or will you give in to the monster you've become?
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Alt-Frequencies
Single-player alternative to Orten Was The Case — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Orten Was The Case.
An audio mystery set in a time loop. Record, rewind time and broadcast snippets of radio shows to expose radio hosts, conspiracy theorists and politicians.
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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to Orten Was The Case — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Orten Was The Case.
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.
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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
Single-player alternative to Orten Was The Case — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.