Single-player games like Gnosis
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Gnosis, 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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Omen Exitio: Hunger
Single-player alternative to Gnosis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Gnosis.
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.
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The Hunter's Journals - Tattered Sails
Single-player alternative to Gnosis — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A horror lurks beneath the earth. Terror rises from the past.
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Choices That Matter: And The Sun Went Out
Single-player alternative to Gnosis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Gnosis.
Take part in one of the most complex interactive adventure stories ever written! What if the sun inexplicably vanished only to return hours later? Investigate with your AI companion, Moti. Uncover conspiracies. Discover ancient religions. Travel the globe.
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Misericorde: Volume One
Single-player alternative to Gnosis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Gnosis.
Misericorde: Volume One is the first part of a series of mystery visual novels set in a convent in 1482.
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The Cabinets of Doctor Arcana
Single-player alternative to Gnosis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Gnosis.
The Cabinets of Doctor Arcana is a dark adventure game set inside the haunted mansion of a mysterious magician who vanished several years ago. Resolve a maze of riddles and perplexing puzzles to unlock doors and secret passages, or be doomed to spend eternity trapped inside the inescapable mansion.
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Confidential Killings - A Detective Game
Single-player alternative to Gnosis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Gnosis.
A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery. Who is pulling the strings behind these Confidential Killings?
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The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature
Single-player alternative to Gnosis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Gnosis.
Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?
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Misadventures of Laura Silver
Single-player alternative to Gnosis — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Need more stress in your life? Meet Laura Silver, a paranoid and insomniac detective tasked with researching Slavic mythology. Do you know anything about the Vodnik? Neither does she. Unfortunately, her incompetence won't be your biggest problem in Czechoslovakia.