Single-player games like Phantom Tentacle
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Phantom Tentacle, 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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Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective
Single-player alternative to Phantom Tentacle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Phantom Tentacle.
Adapted from the bestselling children’s book series Pierre The Maze Detective, play as Pierre in this adventure/puzzle game and recover the stolen Maze Stone. Journey through breathtakingly hand-drawn illustrations, meet eccentric characters, and solve puzzles to save Opera City!
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Frog's Adventure
Single-player alternative to Phantom Tentacle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Phantom Tentacle.
You're a frog who just got given a brain! 🐸 Point-and-click your way through a hand-drawn world and solve puzzles, collect items and talk to other hexed animals. . . Can you lift the curse?
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Mercury Abbey
Single-player alternative to Phantom Tentacle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Phantom Tentacle.
In a mansion surrounded by mist, as the curse made by the Alchemist and Fairy reappears, the danger is quietly lurking in the darkness, awaiting its visitors.Follow Harrod and Willie to unravel an incredible story in Mercury Abbey, and go on an adventure that you would only find in mystery novels.
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Tentacle Girl
Single-player alternative to Phantom Tentacle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Phantom Tentacle.
Aoi and Sally, a treasure hunter, found a cave during the expedition. They foresee a treasure in it. So I decided to go in and take a look. Unexpectedly, this is a tentacled cave.
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Torn Away
Single-player alternative to Phantom Tentacle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Phantom Tentacle.
Torn Away is an award winning interactive story with a unique blend of adventure games, side-scrollers, and cinematic first-person levels. Help little Asya find her way home in the middle of war.
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Wailing Heights
Single-player alternative to Phantom Tentacle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Phantom Tentacle.
A body-hopping, musical adventure game. Trapped in a horrific hamlet of modern monsters, ex-band manager Francis Finkelstein uses the possession wheel to sing his soul into hipster vampires, vegan werewolves and soulful zombies, using their ghoulish powers to escape from Wailing Heights.
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Defeated Girl
Single-player alternative to Phantom Tentacle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Phantom Tentacle.
Defeated Girl is a jigsaw puzzle.
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HANA : Hide and seek
Single-player alternative to Phantom Tentacle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Phantom Tentacle.
A cute RPG Maker horror game
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Conquest Emperor
Single-player alternative to Phantom Tentacle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Phantom Tentacle.
This is a match-3 RPG game! You are called to another world. This is a world ruled by empresses, all you have to do is defeat and conquer all empresses and eventually become the king of Galan.