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Single-player games like Technobabylon

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Technobabylon, 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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    Resonance — Steam game cover

    Resonance

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

    When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.

    2012IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gemini Rue — Steam game cover

    Gemini Rue

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

    Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.

    2011IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Whispers of a Machine — Steam game cover

    Whispers of a Machine

    Single-player alternative to Technobabylon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Technobabylon.

    Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.

    2019Adventure14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Void And Meddler — Steam game cover

    Void And Meddler

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

    Fragments and details, rainy nights and blurry lights are all VOID&MEDDLER focuses on. A non-linear cyberpunk adventure where genders and species melt into each other.

    2015IndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Primordia — Steam game cover

    Primordia

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

    Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.

    2012IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Born Punk — Steam game cover

    Born Punk

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

    A former combat hacker, a corporate CEO and a malfunctioning android get possessed by mysterious, otherworldly entities and must band together to save themselves and uncover the entities' origins. Talk, puzzle and explore your way through this (often humorous) cyberpunk thriller.

    2022IndieAdventure19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Red Strings Club — Steam game cover

    The Red Strings Club

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

    The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.

    2018IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    ENCODYA — Steam game cover

    ENCODYA

    Single-player alternative to Technobabylon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Technobabylon.

    Neo Berlin 2062. Tina – a nine-year-old orphan – lives with SAM-53 – her big clumsy robot guardian –in a rooftop makeshift shelter in Neo-Berlin, a dark megalopolis controlled by corporations.

    2021Adventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Thimbleweed Park™ — Steam game cover

    Thimbleweed Park™

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

    In Thimbleweed Park, a dead body is the least of your problems. Switch between five playable characters to uncover the surreal secrets of this strange town in a modern mystery adventure game from the creators of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets.

    2017IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Return to Monkey Island — Steam game cover

    Return to Monkey Island

    Single-player alternative to Technobabylon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Technobabylon.

    Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.

    2022AdventureCasual24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Broken Sword: Director's Cut (2009) — Steam game cover

    Broken Sword: Director's Cut (2009)

    Single-player alternative to Technobabylon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Technobabylon.

    One of the all-time classic adventures, multi award winning "Broken Sword: Director's Cut" pitches sassy journalist Nico Collard, and intrepid American George Stobbart into a mysterious journey of intrigue and jeopardy.

    2010AdventureDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Journey Down: Chapter Two — Steam game cover

    The Journey Down: Chapter Two

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

    Chapter Two of The Journey Down, a classic point-and-click saga with an Afro-Caribbean vibe. Get ready to embark on an epic journey of brain-teasing adventure!

    2014IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    VirtuaVerse — Steam game cover

    VirtuaVerse

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

    VirtuaVerse is a challenging old school cyberpunk point & click adventure set in a future not so far away narrating tales of technomancers, AVR graffiti writers, hacker groups, tribes of cryptoshamans, digital archeology, epic cyberwars and virtual reality debauchery.

    2020IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →