Single-player games like Mata Hari
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Mata Hari, 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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Between sky and earth
Single-player alternative to Mata Hari — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Mata Hari.
Germany, 1933, a hypnotist's performance fails, leading him to swap fates with an audience member. Realizing he has less than ten hours to live, he must solve riddles and harness his hypnosis and mind-reading abilities to restore things. Can he gain time in his battle against death?
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The Last Express Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Mata Hari — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Mata Hari.
Step aboard the 1914 Orient Express in this award-winning mystery adventure from Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner. Described as one of the best adventure games of all time, The Last Express is an intrigue-filled adventure set aboard the luxurious Orient Express.
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Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™
Single-player alternative to Mata Hari — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Mata Hari.
Valiant Hearts : The Great War is the story of 4 crossed destinies and a broken love in a world torn apart. Dive into a 2D animated comic book adventure, mixing exploration, action and puzzles. Lost in the middle of the trenches, play as each of the 4 strangers, relive the War and help a young German soldier find his love.
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Nostradamus: The Last Prophecy
Single-player alternative to Mata Hari — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Mata Hari.
The Spiritual. The Supernatural. The Skeptical. All are touched upon in Nostradamus: The Last Prophecy. The player is immortalized as a profiler of sorts in this treasure hunt game - a brilliantly vivid historical rendition of the acclaimed quatrains of Nostradamus.
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The Procession to Calvary
Single-player alternative to Mata Hari — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Mata Hari.
Pilfer from pirates, conspire with cardinals and perform miracles with an incompetent magician. The Procession to Calvary is a Pythonesque adventure game made from Renaissance paintings, and a spiritual successor to the critically acclaimed Four Last Things.
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Haunted
Single-player alternative to Mata Hari — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Mata Hari.
In this comedy of terrors, the fate of the spirit world is in your hands as you embark on a search for your long-lost sibling!
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Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
Single-player alternative to Mata Hari — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Mata Hari.
Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.
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Four Last Things
Single-player alternative to Mata Hari — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Mata Hari.
Four Last Things is a very silly pythonesque adventure made from Renaissance-era paintings and public domain recordings of classical music. It is about sin, and the Four Last Things – Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell – and strives to be intelligent and ridiculous in equal measures.
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The Guild II
Single-player alternative to Mata Hari — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The Guild 2 is the shining successor of the ultra successful medieval life sim, Europe 1400. The Guild 2 is a unique mixture of RPG and life simulation in an immersive middle ages scenario. The player and his party become part of history and can even change it in real-time. Go back to the dark middle ages and found a new dynasty!
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The Guild Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Mata Hari — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
It’s the year 1400- the late Middle Ages. Europe sees the dawn of the golden age of the new departures and the free spirit. Under the rule of the bourgeoisie and businessmen, more and more towns are emerging from the clutches of the aristocracy and are achieving independence, power and wealth.
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The Guild II - Pirates of the European Seas
Single-player alternative to Mata Hari — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The first true life simulation series set in the fascinating medieval Europe! The Addon expands and transforms the game into an even greater experience by adding a huge area including the cities of "The Hanse" located at the shores of the European seas.