Single-player games like despelote
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to despelote, 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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1997 RELOADED
Single-player alternative to despelote — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with despelote.
Three teenagers find a mysterious audio tape recording which turns out to be evidence of a murder. It’s the end of the world as they know it. Immerse yourself in a kinetic novel that encapsulates the essence of the 1990s by completely reinventing its music scene.
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Night of her vanishing in fireworks
Single-player alternative to despelote — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with despelote.
The Night She Disappeared in the Fireworks is a short visual novel set in a small Chinese city and centered on esports. You play as Liu Lan, a high school esports player, as he faces three life-changing matches and, together with two heroines, witnesses a fate rewritten by fireworks.
- 3
Goodbye Volcano High
Single-player alternative to despelote — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with despelote.
Goodbye Volcano High is a cinematic narrative adventure about love, change, and the end of the world. Guide Fang through their final year of high school as they try to make things right before time is up.
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Falling Down
Single-player alternative to despelote — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with despelote.
"Falling Down" tells the story of a young hero destined for heroics through a visually stunning action-platformer game.
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Open Roads
Single-player alternative to despelote — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with despelote.
Long-lost family secrets. Hints of a hidden fortune. And miles to go before they sleep. Tess Devine’s relationship with her mom has never been easy, but they’re about to set out together on a journey into the past that they’ll never forget.
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Goodnight Universe
Single-player alternative to despelote — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with despelote.
From the creators of Before Your Eyes — You are Isaac, a 6-month-old baby, developing mysterious psychic powers. What you want most is to be loved and accepted by your family, but a secretive tech corporation wants you for their own.
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Forgotlings
Single-player alternative to despelote — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with despelote.
Award-winning cinematic narrative adventure set in a hand-drawn world of living forgotten objects. Lead Fig and the crew of the Volare through a story of identity, unity, and survival—where diplomacy, difficult choices, and moments of action shape the fate of five divided tribes.
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The Heroes Around Me
Single-player alternative to despelote — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with despelote.
The Heroes Around Me tells a story of a family of 3: the hard-working and quiet father – Nan, his daughter Lili, and their pet dog Sesame. Players will experience the harshness and warmth in the simpler time of the 1990s, where lots of stories are untold.
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Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1
Single-player alternative to despelote — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with despelote.
On the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street, all is not what it seems. What role will you play in a city's fate?
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The Beginner's Guide
Single-player alternative to despelote — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with despelote.
The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.
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Thirty Flights of Loving
Single-player alternative to despelote — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with despelote.
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
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Gravity
Single-player alternative to despelote — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Welcome to the world of Gravity! 100 levels of physics and logic await you. Solve puzzles, place blocks, and enjoy completing each level!
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Wanderstop
Single-player alternative to despelote — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with despelote.
From the creator of The Stanley Parable and The Beginner’s Guide comes Wanderstop, a narrative-centric cozy game about change and tea.
- 14
Venba
Single-player alternative to despelote — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Venba is a short narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations, and explore South Indian food in this story about family, love, and loss.
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Untitled Goose Game
Single-player alternative to despelote — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.