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Single-player games like The Caribou Trail

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Caribou Trail, 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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    Road To Devadatta — Steam game cover

    Road To Devadatta

    Single-player alternative to The Caribou Trail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Caribou Trail.

    Road to Devadatta is a first-person adventure game focused on story and puzzle solving to advance. Explore ancient ruins Use your wits to escape from them, solve their ingenious puzzles and avoid being killed by the creatures that inhabit them.

    2023IndieAdventureCasual5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina) — Steam game cover

    Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina)

    Single-player alternative to The Caribou Trail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Caribou Trail.

    Explore 17th century Canadian wilderness through the eyes of Jeanne, a French woman who crossed the Atlantic to start anew and Maikan, an Innu hunter trying to discover what’s disturbing the forest. Your choices will shape the traits of the protagonists in this narrative single-player experience.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gone Home — Steam game cover

    Gone Home

    Single-player alternative to The Caribou Trail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Caribou Trail.

    June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.

    2013IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    A Service Call — Steam game cover

    A Service Call

    Single-player alternative to The Caribou Trail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Caribou Trail.

    Your first assignment alone. An island where no one has lived for thirty years. A lighthouse that stopped shining. The job was only supposed to take a few hours.

    2026IndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pixel Detective: Curse of the Paintings — Steam game cover

    Pixel Detective: Curse of the Paintings

    Single-player alternative to The Caribou Trail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Caribou Trail.

    A short pixel-art mystery where you play as Nathan, a private investigator drawn into a curious case. Interrogate suspects, examine clues, and uncover hidden details

    2026IndieAdventureCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Last Days of Lazarus — Steam game cover

    Last Days of Lazarus

    Single-player alternative to The Caribou Trail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Caribou Trail.

    After their mother's suicide, Lazarus returns home to his sister Lyudmila. But unexplained events make the world and even reality collapse around him. Looming death, a spreading malediction and the supernatural threaten his sanity, yet Lazarus pushes forward to find the truth about his family.

    2022IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Thirty Flights of Loving — Steam game cover

    Thirty Flights of Loving

    Single-player alternative to The Caribou Trail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Caribou Trail.

    This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.

    2012IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Last Case of John Morley — Steam game cover

    The Last Case of John Morley

    Single-player alternative to The Caribou Trail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Caribou Trail.

    Step into the mind of John Morley, a 1940s detective on his final case. Explore shadowed places long forgotten by time, and piece together crime scenes in a narrative adventure steeped in mystery, unexpected twists, and a truth buried for decades.

    2025IndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →