Single-player games like Grim Fandango Remastered
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Grim Fandango Remastered, 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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Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Single-player alternative to Grim Fandango Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grim Fandango Remastered.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
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Broken Age
Single-player alternative to Grim Fandango Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grim Fandango Remastered.
A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.
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Full Throttle Remastered
Single-player alternative to Grim Fandango Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grim Fandango Remastered.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1995, Full Throttle is a classic graphic adventure game from industry legend Tim Schafer, telling the story of Ben Throttle; butt-kicking leader of biker gang the Polecats, who gets caught up in a tale of Motorcycles, Mayhem and Murder.
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The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Single-player alternative to Grim Fandango Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grim Fandango Remastered.
Back by popular demand, The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition faithfully re-imagines the internationally-acclaimed classic game (originally released in 1990) for original and new audiences alike.
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The Curse of Monkey Island
Single-player alternative to Grim Fandango Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grim Fandango Remastered.
The only pirate adventure that asks the question: What's sharper, your sword or your wit?
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The Book of Unwritten Tales
Single-player alternative to Grim Fandango Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grim Fandango Remastered.
In a world torn by war, the aged gremlin archaeologist Mortimer MacGuffin harbors the dark secret of a powerful artifact.
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Runaway: A Twist of Fate
Single-player alternative to Grim Fandango Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grim Fandango Remastered.
Runaway: A Twist of Fate is the adventure game of the year! Featuring a production worthy of a big 2D animated movie, Runaway follows a story full of twists and turns, and packed with comical highlights. All in all, you will be confronted with more than 200 mysteries and puzzles to keep your brain running through a big adventure that you...
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Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
Single-player alternative to Grim Fandango Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grim Fandango Remastered.
From the creators of the award winning games “The Whispered World” and “Deponia” comes this extraordinary game Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes.
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Simon the Sorcerer 3D
Single-player alternative to Grim Fandango Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grim Fandango Remastered.
Simon is back and this time in 3 dimensions! Once again explore with Simon a vast fantastical world and help him find a way back home by uncovering the secrets of 'The Nexus'. Do this before your arch nemesis, Sordid, can use its power for more evil means.
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Thimbleweed Park™
Single-player alternative to Grim Fandango Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grim Fandango Remastered.
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.
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Psychonauts
Single-player alternative to Grim Fandango Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.
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Sam & Max Hit the Road
Single-player alternative to Grim Fandango Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grim Fandango Remastered.
Grab your nightstick, squeal like a siren, and Hit the Road with Sam & Max, Freelance Police, as they attempt to crack their toughest case.
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Broken Sword: Director's Cut (2009)
Single-player alternative to Grim Fandango Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grim Fandango Remastered.
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.
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Kathy Rain
Single-player alternative to Grim Fandango Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grim Fandango Remastered.
Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.
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The Dig®
Single-player alternative to Grim Fandango Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grim Fandango Remastered.
An asteroid the size of a small moon is on a crash course toward Earth. Once the wayward asteroid is nuked into a safe orbit, a trio conducts a routine examination of the rocky surface. What they uncover is anything but routine.
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The Darkside Detective
Single-player alternative to Grim Fandango Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grim Fandango Remastered.
Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Flesh-hungry tentacles, mafian zombies, and the occasional missing sock are no match for The Darkside Detective.
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Psychonauts 2
Single-player alternative to Grim Fandango Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grim Fandango Remastered.
Combining quirky missions and mysterious conspiracies, Psychonauts 2 is a platform-adventure game with cinematic style and tons of customizable psychic powers.
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Brutal Legend
Single-player alternative to Grim Fandango Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grim Fandango Remastered.
Brütal Legend is an action-adventure that marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom. Set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap, it’s a fresh take on the action/driving genre, which in this case is full of imitation cover bands, demons intent on enslaving humanity and Heavy metal tunes.
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Spacebase DF-9
Single-player alternative to Grim Fandango Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
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Costume Quest
Single-player alternative to Grim Fandango Remastered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grim Fandango Remastered.
A Halloween adventure from Tim Schafer's Double Fine Productions.