Single-player games like Expelled!
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Expelled!, 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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Overboard!
Single-player alternative to Expelled! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Expelled!.
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
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Pentiment
Single-player alternative to Expelled! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Expelled!.
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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Death Trick: Double Blind
Single-player alternative to Expelled! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Expelled!.
The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.
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TR-49
Single-player alternative to Expelled! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Expelled!.
A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret. Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Overboard!, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
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Sarawak
Single-player alternative to Expelled! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Expelled!.
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
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The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
Single-player alternative to Expelled! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Expelled!.
Immerse yourself in a dramatic yet charming and witty world of evidence-gathering, deduction and courtroom battles with this double-pack of the adventures of rookie lawyer Ryunosuke.
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Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
Single-player alternative to Expelled! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Expelled!.
The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.
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Blake: The Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to Expelled! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Expelled!.
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
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Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
Single-player alternative to Expelled! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Expelled!.
Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?
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Escape Floor Zero
Single-player alternative to Expelled! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Expelled!.
Trapped in an infinite parking lot, your only escape is through Floor Zero. Detect subtle anomalies and make crucial decisions in this mind-bending, psychological horror experience. Dare to escape the unescapable? If you see an anomaly... turn back.
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Heaven's Vault
Single-player alternative to Expelled! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Expelled!.
An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.
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80 Days
Single-player alternative to Expelled! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Expelled!.
1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just 80 days. Travel by airship, submarine, mechanical camel, steam-train and more. Race other players and a clock that never stops in TIME Magazine's Game of 2014.
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Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
Single-player alternative to Expelled! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Expelled!.
An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.
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A Highland Song
Single-player alternative to Expelled! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Expelled!.
Moira McKinnon is running away. A wild adventure through the Scottish Highlands, with open platforming and dynamic storytelling, maps and music. From the creators of Heaven's Vault and 80 Days.
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Pendragon: Narrative Tactics
Single-player alternative to Expelled! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Expelled!.
AD 673. Camelot has fallen. The Round Table must rally to save King Arthur. Narrative strategy game from the creators of 80 DAYS, with elegant tactics and a unique, dynamic story every time you replay.
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Sorcery! Part 3
Single-player alternative to Expelled! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Expelled!.
An epic open-world narrative adventure through a world of monsters, traps and magic. Explore two intermeshed worlds, past and present, and create your own unique story where every decision you make is remembered. Survive, and defeat the Seven Serpents - if you can!