Single-player games like Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth, 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 Metamorphosis
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.
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Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series is a six part episodic game series set in the world of HBO's groundbreaking TV show. This new story tells of House Forrester, a noble family from the north of Westeros, loyal to the Starks of Winterfell.
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First Crusader
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
Determine the fate of the Crusaders in this history-based visual novel game. Be the leader of the Christians or the leader of the Turks. Choose your own path in a story where every decision matters. You will change the history of this Crusade.
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Herald: The Interactive Period Drama – Complete Edition
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
Herald is a choice-driven adventure set on the high seas. Board the HLV Herald and uncover its dark secrets in an intriguing tale about tyranny and servitude.
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Orwell's Animal Farm
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
Orwell’s Animal Farm is a text-based choice-driven narrative game where all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Immerse yourself in George Orwell's story of absolute power and corruption and follow the ups and downs of Animalism.
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Death Trick: Double Blind
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.
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Astrologaster
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
Astrologaster is a comedy game set in Shakespeare’s London. Play as 'Doctor' Simon Forman and treat his patients using astrology. A story-driven adventure based on a truly ridiculous story.
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The 39 Steps
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
Prepare to experience the original man-on-the-run thriller in a completely new way! There are secrets to be discovered, locations to be explored and - above all - an incredible tale to be told in this ground-breaking interactive novel.
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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The Banner Saga
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
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Broken Age
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.
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Pentiment
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
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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Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
Crazy cultists. Cthulhu. A talking cat. Gibbous takes you on an expansive, traditionally animated, hand-painted adventure. Play as three protagonists and explore a lushly rendered Lovecraft-inspired world, unraveling ancient conspiracies. A comedy cosmic horror adventure made in Transylvania!
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Lone Wolf
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
Lone Wolf: A Post Apocalyptic Beat-Em Up Role Playing Game. This action/adventure game lets a player use martial arts skills, weapons, and turn into a werewolf to fight their way through a world set in the aftermath of post nuclear devastation.
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Deponia
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence.
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Deponia: The Complete Journey
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
Junk, junk and even more junk. Life on the trash-planet Deponia is anything but a walk in the park. No surprise that Rufus had enough of that and hatches one ludicrous plan after the other to escape this bleak place.
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Blackguards
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder.
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Deponia Doomsday
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
Can you change Deponia's fate? Do you have what it takes to change Rufus' past, present and future without accidently destroying the whole planet? Fight time itself in this action-packed, platypus-tastic and insanely hilarious story.
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The Night of the Rabbit
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
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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Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
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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Chaos on Deponia
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
With this long-expected sequel to the critically highly acclaimed and lavishly praised Deponia, the player enters round two. Chaos on Deponia turns out to be even wackier than its predecessor and instantly puts the player under its spell.
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The Dark Eye: Memoria
Single-player alternative to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.
In Memoria, players travel through different time periods, following two distinct protagonists: Sadja, a southern princess who wants to be a war hero, and Geron, a bird catcher who wants to lift a curse from his girlfriend.