Single-player games like The Shivah
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Shivah, 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 Blackwell Legacy
Single-player alternative to The Shivah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shivah.
When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.
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Gemini Rue
Single-player alternative to The Shivah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shivah.
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
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Blackwell Epiphany
Single-player alternative to The Shivah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shivah.
The last game in the Blackwell series.
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The Charnel House Trilogy
Single-player alternative to The Shivah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shivah.
Witness The Charnel House Trilogy, the chronicle of one fateful night aboard a train bound for Augur Peak. Three thrilling, horrifying adventure games in one, from the depths of the Sepulchre, starring Madeleine Roux, Peter Willington, Jonathan Grier, Jim Sterling, and Ben Chandler as Grub.
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Kathy Rain
Single-player alternative to The Shivah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shivah.
Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.
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Lamplight City
Single-player alternative to The Shivah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shivah.
A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can you help private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?
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Whispers of a Machine
Single-player alternative to The Shivah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Shivah.
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
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Resonance
Single-player alternative to The Shivah — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shivah.
When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.