Single-player games like Obsidian
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Obsidian, 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 Operator
Single-player alternative to Obsidian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Obsidian.
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
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Obduction
Single-player alternative to Obsidian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Obsidian.
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
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Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
Single-player alternative to Obsidian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Obsidian.
The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.
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TR-49
Single-player alternative to Obsidian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Obsidian.
A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret. Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Overboard!, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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An English Haunting
Single-player alternative to Obsidian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Obsidian.
While looking for the existence of the Great Beyond, Professor Patrick Moore, aided by a fake medium, will build a device to see the other side, embark on a search for a millenary artifact, and investigate the most haunted manor of 1907 England.
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Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer
Single-player alternative to Obsidian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Obsidian.
In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…
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Dead Take
Single-player alternative to Obsidian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Obsidian.
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
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Eclipsium
Single-player alternative to Obsidian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Obsidian.
Longing for light, a sunless world begins devouring itself. Every step shifts the landscape beneath you as you search for what remains of her.
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Zork: Grand Inquisitor
Single-player alternative to Obsidian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Obsidian.
Join forces with Dungeon Master Dalboz and travel throughout the Underground Empire's many locations, such as Hades, Flood Control Dam #3 and The Dungeon Master's Lair.
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Myst
Single-player alternative to Obsidian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Obsidian.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
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The Space Bar
Single-player alternative to Obsidian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Obsidian.
Play as Alias Node, a human detective working on planet, Armpit VI. Your assignment? Catch a shifty criminal, wanted for grand theft and murder, before whatever it is, escapes to another world!
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Rocket Jockey
Single-player alternative to Obsidian — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Welcome to the most brutal sport around. Destruction derbies are so passé, audiences want blood, so we strapped the drivers to volatile rockets. Smash your opponents into dust or better yet each other. Drag their faces across the ground at over 100 MPH...and give a whole new meaning to road rash!