Single-player games like Tales from Candleforth
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Tales from Candleforth, 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 Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2
Single-player alternative to Tales from Candleforth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
The Dream Machine is an award-winning point & click adventure game about exploring other people's dreams. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.
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Birth
Single-player alternative to Tales from Candleforth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
You are alone. You will build a creature, a partner, a wet warm heart, a collection of bones.
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Hell Is Other People
Single-player alternative to Tales from Candleforth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
A psychological horror adventure about social anxiety. Play as a girl with red hair deemed broken by a black-and-white society. Your mind is your inventory. Manage shifting mental states, befriend your unreliable Alter-Ego and decide: force yourself to conform, or isolate?
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Faded Stories: Full Moon
Single-player alternative to Tales from Candleforth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
Unburied and forgotten undead gather in the city center, while the citizens of Greenberg go about their day-to-day lives.
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Larry The Unlucky Part 3
Single-player alternative to Tales from Candleforth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
Help Larry find a cure for his wife and break his curse of unluckiness by solving riddles and puzzles on his adventures around the whole world.
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Allogloom
Single-player alternative to Tales from Candleforth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Tales from Candleforth.
Join Nora in this mysterious and macabre point and click adventure game. Find and collect items to solve puzzles. Talk to peculiar people and monsters alike. Explore Gruesome Grove and beyond to uncover forgotten truths and save the people of her town!
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Trance, Trauma
Single-player alternative to Tales from Candleforth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
A woman killed herself. Uncover her motive in 3 surreal, hexagon rooms. Set in the aftermath of a tragic incident, Trance, Trauma is a point-and-click puzzle game where you play as the soul of the victim.
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Rusty Lake Hotel
Single-player alternative to Tales from Candleforth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
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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Rusty Lake: Roots
Single-player alternative to Tales from Candleforth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.
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Myst
Single-player alternative to Tales from Candleforth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
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Fran Bow
Single-player alternative to Tales from Candleforth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
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Creepy Tale
Single-player alternative to Tales from Candleforth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
Creepy quest with the atmosphere of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Go through a dangerous adventure filled with puzzles and challenges! Perhaps it is you who will be able to solve all the secrets of forest and save the peaceful creatures?
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Forgotten Hill Tales
Single-player alternative to Tales from Candleforth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from Candleforth.
A spin-off series of short stories set in the grotesque world of Forgotten Hill