Single-player games like Escape from Norwood
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Escape from Norwood, 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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Upheaval
Single-player alternative to Escape from Norwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape from Norwood.
Spend your time well: in 30 days a powerful Magician arrives, and everything changes! Explore the wilds around your remote village, learn from mistakes, recover magical artifacts, and turn setbacks into advantages in this text-based open world roguelike adventure. Time's up: Upheaval is here again!
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VIDEOVERSE
Single-player alternative to Escape from Norwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape from Norwood.
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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Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
Single-player alternative to Escape from Norwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape from Norwood.
Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open! This is a short but twisty detective case.
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Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
Single-player alternative to Escape from Norwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape from Norwood.
You are the one and only Duck Detective, a depressed and recently divorced duck who must quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery!
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Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Single-player alternative to Escape from Norwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape from Norwood.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
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Sarawak
Single-player alternative to Escape from Norwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape from Norwood.
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Single-player alternative to Escape from Norwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape from Norwood.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
Single-player alternative to Escape from Norwood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape from Norwood.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.