Single-player games like Telescape
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Telescape, 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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Just an Ordinary Maintenance Check
Single-player alternative to Telescape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Telescape.
In this puzzle-survival horror game you must enter a sewer and fix the systems inside at a client's request. Navigate the large sewer quickly and quietly. Something stalks the tunnels, only God can save you if it hears you. Work fast, stay quiet, and get out.
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Candlehead
Single-player alternative to Telescape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Telescape.
Explore a dark and eerie first person folk horror game where your doom flickers in the form of a candle barely visible through the dusky gloom.
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Limerick: Cadence Mansion
Single-player alternative to Telescape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Telescape.
Limerick: Cadence Mansion is a detail-rich first-person action-horror adventure with deep lore, intricate puzzles, satisfying combat, and a happy little marionette who really wants to say "hello."
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Kohate
Single-player alternative to Telescape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Telescape.
Arrested and sold at auction, you have been transported to a secret testing facility in deep space. Perform the required tasks while avoiding the abomination lurking within the complex.
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REDEMPTION
Single-player alternative to Telescape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Telescape.
"Redemption": A spine-chilling Stealth-Puzzle in a graveyard. Navigate as a skeleton, facing rats, zombies, and gargoyles. Use bone-throwing, parrying, hover jumping. Evolve abilities by consuming foes. Can you find redemption among the undead?
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You Have Been Deleted
Single-player alternative to Telescape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Telescape.
You Have Been Deleted is a first-person survival horror inspired by the early internet and the 90s, all packaged in a surreal retro art style. Trapped within a corrupted virtual reality made by the company you work for, you must Uncover, Hack, and Survive if you ever wish to free yourself from hell.
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HARVEST
Single-player alternative to Telescape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Telescape.
What was supposed to be a quick electrical repair job at an abandoned hospital turned into an investigation of a dark and sinister scheme
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HORROR TALES: The Wine
Single-player alternative to Telescape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Telescape.
Explore a post-pandemic fictional Mediterranean island and confront your fears! Immerse yourself in a seemingly abandoned city and struggle to find a precious Banydebosc red wine bottle to cure your loved ones. But be aware; your Nemesis is hunting you. Indie Jumpscares included! :D