Single-player games like The Book of Unwritten Tales
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to The Book of Unwritten Tales, 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 Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Single-player alternative to The Book of Unwritten Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Book of Unwritten Tales.
Back by popular demand, The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition faithfully re-imagines the internationally-acclaimed classic game (originally released in 1990) for original and new audiences alike.
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Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Single-player alternative to The Book of Unwritten Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Book of Unwritten Tales.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
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Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™
Single-player alternative to The Book of Unwritten Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Book of Unwritten Tales.
Wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood, and the now zombie pirate LeChuck, return in what has long been considered one of the greatest LucasArts adventure games of all time.
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The Longest Journey
Single-player alternative to The Book of Unwritten Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Book of Unwritten Tales.
The Longest Journey is an amazing graphical adventure, where the player controls the protagonist, April Ryan, on her journey between parallel universes.
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Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
Single-player alternative to The Book of Unwritten Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Book of Unwritten Tales.
From the creators of the award winning games “The Whispered World” and “Deponia” comes this extraordinary game Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes.
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Time Gentlemen, Please! and Ben There, Dan That! Special Edition Double Pack
Single-player alternative to The Book of Unwritten Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Book of Unwritten Tales.
Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentlemen, Please! are a couple of rip-roaring point-and-click adventure games . With tongue firmly in cheek, sit back, relax, and put your mind to work solving puzzles, and reading some very funny dialogue. It's like a book, only good!
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Armikrog
Single-player alternative to The Book of Unwritten Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Book of Unwritten Tales.
Armikrog is a unique stop motion clay animated point and click adventure game from the creators of Earthworm Jim and the Neverhood. Unravel the mysteries of the fortress that holds Tommynaut and his blind alien talking dog Beak-Beak captive through exploration and puzzle solving!
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The Night of the Rabbit
Single-player alternative to The Book of Unwritten Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Book of Unwritten Tales.
Lose yourself in a tale of magic and wonder, where anything is possible and where nothing is quite as it seems: join young Jerry and follow a peculiar white rabbit to the wondrous realm of Mousewood, a land where critters can speak and where mystery abounds.
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The Walking Dead
Single-player alternative to The Book of Unwritten Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Book of Unwritten Tales.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
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Return to Monkey Island
Single-player alternative to The Book of Unwritten Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Book of Unwritten Tales.
Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.
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Dear Esther
Single-player alternative to The Book of Unwritten Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Book of Unwritten Tales.
Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
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Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure
Single-player alternative to The Book of Unwritten Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Book of Unwritten Tales.
Delores is back home and working as a photographer for the Nickel News. Thimbleweed Park hasn’t changed at all in the year she’s been away… or has it? Sample Ron Gilbert’s new adventure game engine in this free prototype that uses “found art” from the award-winning Thimbleweed Park.
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World of Witchcraft
Single-player alternative to The Book of Unwritten Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Book of Unwritten Tales.
Immerse yourself in a world where ambition, magic, and lust intertwine.
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Iron Harvest
Single-player alternative to The Book of Unwritten Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A classic real-time strategy game with an epic single player campaign, multiplayer & coop, set in the alternate reality of 1920+
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The Dwarves
Single-player alternative to The Book of Unwritten Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A few heroes are facing hundreds of foes – are you even able to lead the coolest fantasy people to victory against the dark hordes? Explore a vast world, fight tactical real-time battles, and experience the fantastic story based on the bestseller "The Dwarves".
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The Book of Unwritten Tales 2
Single-player alternative to The Book of Unwritten Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Book of Unwritten Tales.
Every world needs its heroes. However unlikely they may seem. Join Wilbur, Ivo, Nate and Critter in another classic point-and-click adventure in the wicked world of Aventásia. Help them fulfill their destiny. A destiny as yet unwritten.
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The Raven - Legacy of a Master Thief
Single-player alternative to The Book of Unwritten Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Book of Unwritten Tales.
'The Raven - Legacy of a Master Thief' is a thrilling crime adventure in three chapters from the creators of 'The Book of Unwritten Tales'. Full of twists and turns, it immerses you in both sides of the story, combining thrill-of-the-chase whodunit with the risk and reward of a heist story. Paris, 1960.
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Black Mirror
Single-player alternative to The Book of Unwritten Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Book of Unwritten Tales.
Scotland, 1926. Following the death of his father, David Gordon visits his ancestral home for the first time in his life. A life that is soon threatened by the dark secrets that claimed the sanity of many Gordons before him. Black Mirror Castle demands an offering.
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The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles
Single-player alternative to The Book of Unwritten Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Book of Unwritten Tales.
Enjoy a thrilling and hilarious point-and-click adventure in the fantasy world of Aventasia
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The Raven Remastered
Single-player alternative to The Book of Unwritten Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Book of Unwritten Tales.
London, 1964. An ancient ruby is stolen from the British Museum. At the crime scene: a raven feather. Is somebody trying to follow in the footsteps of The Raven, the legendary master thief who disappeared years before?
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Battle Worlds: Kronos
Single-player alternative to The Book of Unwritten Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Battle Worlds: Kronos is a classic turn-based strategy game in the tradition of Battle Isle, Advance Wars and Panzer General. Have you ever wondered what games like that would look like today? Well, we did. As a result, we decided to develope Battle Worlds: Kronos.