Single-player games like Expelled!
Below are 15 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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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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Best Served Cold
Single-player alternative to Expelled! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Expelled!.
Can you mix a cocktail while eye-to-eye with a criminal? Find out in Best Served Cold, a murder mystery set in a bustling speakeasy where you serve customers, make friends and enemies, and solve crimes. At the Nightcap bar, prohibition is a killer… and so are some of your customers!
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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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The Shell Part II: Purgatorio
Single-player alternative to Expelled! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Expelled!.
Detective Reiji Tokisaka is back to face down a mystery that spans decades, if not centuries. With the aftermath of his last case weighing on his soul and a long-silent cult resurgent, can he solve the crime—or will it become his curse?
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The Séance of Blake Manor
Single-player alternative to Expelled! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Expelled!.
The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurrences.
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Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
Single-player alternative to Expelled! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Expelled!.
A wild tale of conspiracy, loss, friendship, and... chickens?! Two rooster detectives are about to venture into the insect underworld to uncover a worldwide conspiracy, while also battling their inherent demons in this animal noir adventure satire.
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Road to Empress I
Single-player alternative to Expelled! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Expelled!.
You've never played a game like this before. Road to Empress I is a cinematic palace adventure where your choices decide everyone's fate. Tackle multiple story branches and a high mortality rate with charm, wisdom and courage? First...survive.
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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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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!