Single-player games like Goodbye Deponia
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Goodbye Deponia, 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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Chaos on Deponia
Single-player alternative to Goodbye Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodbye Deponia.
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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Deponia
Single-player alternative to Goodbye Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodbye Deponia.
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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Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
Single-player alternative to Goodbye Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodbye Deponia.
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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The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav
Single-player alternative to Goodbye Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodbye Deponia.
Face your Destiny! In Andergast, whose inhabitants are considered to be superstitious, King Efferdan awaits a state visit from high-ranking dignitaries. For centuries the kingdom has been at odds with neighboring Nostria, but now first steps are being undertaken toward a lasting peace.
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The Night of the Rabbit
Single-player alternative to Goodbye Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodbye Deponia.
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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The Book of Unwritten Tales
Single-player alternative to Goodbye Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Goodbye Deponia.
In a world torn by war, the aged gremlin archaeologist Mortimer MacGuffin harbors the dark secret of a powerful artifact.
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Syberia
Single-player alternative to Goodbye Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Goodbye Deponia.
Join Kate Walker as she travels to remote locations and time periods in this timeless voyage to discover her true destiny.
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Grim Fandango Remastered
Single-player alternative to Goodbye Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Goodbye Deponia.
One of the most acclaimed adventure games of all time is now back, better than ever. Grim Fandango Remastered has the all the beautiful art and engaging story fans remember, but has also been remastered to look, sound, and control even better than the award-winning original release.
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Secret Files: Tunguska
Single-player alternative to Goodbye Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Goodbye Deponia.
Unravel one of the greatest mysteries of our time! On the 30th June 1908 an explosion with the combined energy of 2000 Hiroshima bombs rocked the region of Tunguska in Central Siberia and felled over 6,000 square km of trees. The explosion could be heard from as far as 1,000km away.
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Machinarium
Single-player alternative to Goodbye Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodbye Deponia.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
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The Curse of Monkey Island
Single-player alternative to Goodbye Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Goodbye Deponia.
The only pirate adventure that asks the question: What's sharper, your sword or your wit?
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Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
Single-player alternative to Goodbye Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodbye Deponia.
12th century, England: In a time of poverty and war, a small town begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and safety for its people. In their struggle to survive, lives and destinies intertwine. Based on Ken Follett's world-bestseller ‘The Pillars of the Earth’.
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Deponia: The Complete Journey
Single-player alternative to Goodbye Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Goodbye Deponia.
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 Goodbye Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodbye Deponia.
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 Goodbye Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodbye Deponia.
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.