Single-player games like Chernobyl: Origins
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Chernobyl: Origins, 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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YinYang Street: Separate Ways
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
Street Li Fang Zhuan is a Chinese micro horror game set in 1980s China, combining the story of understanding puzzles and text adventures. In the game, the scroll scene that can be moved by four axes is applied to bring different game experience to the player.
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Pentiment
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Chernobyl: Origins.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
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The Lamenting Geese: Ten Days of the City's Fall
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
A visual novel of brutal beauty and tragic love. You wake up trapped inside your own dark fantasy, Lion Camel Kingdom. To escape a ten-day demon massacre, you must survive and recover your memories to solve the mystery of a drowned Yangzhou courtesan.
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Rusty Lake Hotel
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
Are you ready to serve the guests in the Rusty Lake Hotel? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
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Kholat
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
The most terrifying journey of your life set in the beautiful winter scenery of the Ural Mountains. Uncover the horrific mystery behind the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Narrated by the famous Sean Bean.
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Overboard!
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
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Gerda: A Flame in Winter
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?
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IMMORTALITY
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
Marissa Marcel was a film star. She made three movies. But none of the movies were ever released. And Marissa Marcel disappeared. An interactive trilogy from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story.
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Escape from Chernobyl
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
Will take you back to 1986, to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, located near the city of Pripyat
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Escape from Chernobyl: Jailbreak
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
The plot of the game will tell the story of the mysterious prisoner E-0308, who found himself in prison for a special content of the ER-03 project, near the town of Pripyat
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Goblin Survivors
Single-player alternative to Chernobyl: Origins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chernobyl: Origins.
Goblin Survivors - casual goblin destruction simulator with roguelike elements. Pump up destructive magic, erase hundreds of vile monsters, survive in battles with bosses! Make up your set of spells before foray into the lands of the enemy, for the most effective extermination!