Single-player games like Book Smugglers
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Book Smugglers, 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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Beware of the Cartographer!
Single-player alternative to Book Smugglers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Book Smugglers.
Map a mysterious land during the Age of Enlightenment. Draw the border between two warring kingdoms. Meet the locals. Juggle their demands with the requirements of your mission. Ethical dilemmas, secret plots, strange phenomena… will you be able to bring peace back to the land?
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Bungou Catharsis 文豪カタルシス
Single-player alternative to Book Smugglers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Book Smugglers.
Fall in love, and rewrite literary history. Romance legendary Japanese authors—including Osamu Dazai, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kenji Miyazawa, and Natsume Soseki—in a literary mystery visual novel. Your choices shape not only your romance, but also the fate of literary history itself.
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Hearth & Holmes
Single-player alternative to Book Smugglers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Book Smugglers.
Did you ever have a virtual pet? Was your virtual pet responsible for solving mysteries in the cruel streets of Victorian London? Did your virtual pet forget to eat? Did he stay up to 3AM doing chemistry experiments? Your virtual pet is named Sherlock Holmes. Try to keep him alive.
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PatriotMemoirs
Single-player alternative to Book Smugglers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Book Smugglers.
Shangchuan, 1939, Japanese-occupied. By day a bowing traitor, by night a ghost, in Demon's Lair, No. 86. All wear masks: pretend, kill, survive. When sacrificing a friend is the only way, when betrayed, when only isolated cities remain - fight to the end, live a coward, or take an unimagined path?
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Expelled!
Single-player alternative to Book Smugglers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Book Smugglers.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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The Test: Secrets of the Soul
Single-player alternative to Book Smugglers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Book Smugglers.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
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Saltsea Chronicles
Single-player alternative to Book Smugglers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Book Smugglers.
It begins with a kidnapped captain and a stolen ship. Where it leads next? That’s up to you… In this story-driven adventure game you will explore strange and wonderful communities, uncover a deep conspiracy, and chart a journey through twists and turns, difficulties and delights.
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A Case of Distrust
Single-player alternative to Book Smugglers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Book Smugglers.
A Case of Distrust is a narrative mystery from 1924 San Francisco. Play as private investigator Phyllis Cadence Malone in this historical 2D adventure game.
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Plasticalypse - Submarine Adventures
Single-player alternative to Book Smugglers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Book Smugglers.
A journey of the last ocean cleaner submarine that is tasked to restore the ecosystem of a dying earth. "Plasticalypse: TrashSub Adventures“