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 Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
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.
Immerse yourself in an enchanting narrative experience as Fortuna, a fortune-teller Witch condemned to exile on her asteroid home. Craft your own Tarot deck, regain your freedom, and shape the fate of the cosmic Witch society.
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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
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 narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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VIDEOVERSE
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.
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
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Sumire
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.
One Day, One Life. Sumire is a magical narrative adventure about choices made, and dreams lost and found. Embark on a mysterious journey to help Sumire achieve her deepest wishes, before the day ends and the sky turns to twilight.
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Loretta
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.
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
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Afterparty
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 Afterparty, you are Milo and Lola, recently deceased best buds who suddenly find themselves staring down an eternity in Hell. But there's a loophole: outdrink Satan and he'll grant you re-entry to Earth.
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Burly Men at Sea
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 branching folktale misadventure about a trio of large, bearded fishermen. Shape a custom tale that begins again where it ends, through waters where lurk creatures from Scandinavian folklore.
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Late Shift
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.
Late Shift is a high stakes FMV crime thriller. Forced into a brutal London heist, your choices matter in this interactive cinematic experience with adaptable storylines that lead to one of seven conclusions. Your decisions are you.
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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.