Single-player games like The Council
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to The Council, 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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Life is Strange: Before the Storm
Single-player alternative to The Council — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Council.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.
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The Wolf Among Us
Single-player alternative to The Council — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Council.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
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Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator
Single-player alternative to The Council — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Council.
From the creators that brought you The Test Trilogy & many other experiences, comes Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator. Will you survive in the new world? Or will you become just another victim to looters, bandits, or worst of all... The Voracious Dead. There's only one way to find out...
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The Test: Hypothesis Rising
Single-player alternative to The Council — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Council.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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Batman - The Telltale Series
Single-player alternative to The Council — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Council.
Enter the fractured psyche of Bruce Wayne and discover the powerful and far-reaching consequences of your choices as the Dark Knight.
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Tell Me Why
Single-player alternative to The Council — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Council.
Tell Me Why is the multi-award winning episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment in which twins use their supernatural bond to discover the truth of their troubled past.
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The Deed II
Single-player alternative to The Council — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Council.
Can you commit the perfect murder? Outside a brothel in 1930s Paris, a man recognises one of the orderlies who had cruelly abused him while he was in a mental asylum. Some deeds cannot be forgiven ...
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Pentiment
Single-player alternative to The Council — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Council.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
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Oxenfree
Single-player alternative to The Council — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Council.
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
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The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series
Single-player alternative to The Council — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Council.
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series contains all 4 Seasons, 400 Days, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, which includes over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 unique episodes.
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Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
Single-player alternative to The Council — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Council.
Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.
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Detroit: Become Human
Single-player alternative to The Council — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Council.
Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
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Elysium
Single-player alternative to The Council — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Council.
Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!
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Firewatch
Single-player alternative to The Council — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Council.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
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Martha Is Dead
Single-player alternative to The Council — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Council.
Set in 1944 Italy, Martha Is Dead is an award-winning dark psychological thriller where the lines between truth, superstition, and tragedy blur. Explore a haunting countryside, uncover disturbing memories, and peel back layers of mystery. Every choice shapes the nightmare…are you ready to face it?
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Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong
Single-player alternative to The Council — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Council.
Play as 3 vampires, wield their powers wisely, and strike the right balance between your human and animal side in a heart-pounding story in which your choices will decide the fate of Boston.
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Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss
Single-player alternative to The Council — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Council.
A mining station in the Pacific abyss is no longer responding. As an investigator of the occult, unravel the mysteries of the deep. Test your wits and sanity in this lovecraftian thriller.