Single-player games like The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, 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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Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™
Single-player alternative to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood, and the now zombie pirate LeChuck, return in what has long been considered one of the greatest LucasArts adventure games of all time.
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The Curse of Monkey Island
Single-player alternative to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
The only pirate adventure that asks the question: What's sharper, your sword or your wit?
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Escape from Monkey Island™
Single-player alternative to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Fourth in the legendary Monkey Island series of graphic adventures!
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Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Single-player alternative to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
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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Grim Fandango Remastered
Single-player alternative to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
One of the most acclaimed adventure games of all time is now back, better than ever. Grim Fandango Remastered has the all the beautiful art and engaging story fans remember, but has also been remastered to look, sound, and control even better than the award-winning original release.
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Maniac Mansion
Single-player alternative to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Quick, Dr. Fred's Kidnapped Sandy and he's about to start the experiment...
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The Night of the Rabbit
Single-player alternative to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Lose yourself in a tale of magic and wonder, where anything is possible and where nothing is quite as it seems: join young Jerry and follow a peculiar white rabbit to the wondrous realm of Mousewood, a land where critters can speak and where mystery abounds.
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Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack: Chapter 5 - Rise of the Pirate God
Single-player alternative to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
About Chapter One The saga begins with a heated battle involving the brave but often bumbling Mighty Pirate™ Guybrush, his beloved wife Elaine, and their nemesis, the demon pirate LeChuck. When the showdown goes up in flames, Guybrush finds himself marooned on a strange island with winds that always blow inward.
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Thimbleweed Park™
Single-player alternative to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
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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Simon the Sorcerer 3D
Single-player alternative to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
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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Deponia
Single-player alternative to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence.
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Myst
Single-player alternative to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
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DIG THE GROUND
Single-player alternative to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Dig the Ground is a unique Match3 puzzler in which you have to match gems of the same color and use all sorts of tools to clear the ground tiles beneath you.
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Elysium
Single-player alternative to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!
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The Longest Journey
Single-player alternative to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
The Longest Journey is an amazing graphical adventure, where the player controls the protagonist, April Ryan, on her journey between parallel universes.
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STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
Single-player alternative to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
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STAR WARS™ - The Force Unleashed™ Ultimate Sith Edition
Single-player alternative to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A game that will show gamers the deepest, darkest side of the Force in a story that puts them on a collision course with Luke Skywalker himself.
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STAR WARS™ Dark Forces (Classic, 1995)
Single-player alternative to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Behind a veil of secrecy the evil Empire is creating a doomsday army - one that, if finished, will become the final cog in the Empire's arsenal of terror and domination. Your Mission? Join the Rebel Alliance's covert operations division, infiltrate the Empire.
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STAR WARS™ Episode I Racer
Single-player alternative to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Two Engines. One Champion. No Limits.
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STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
Single-player alternative to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II picks up where the award-winning Dark Forces™ game left off...with even more features and firepower in dazzling 3D graphics. As Kyle Katarn, you must acquire a lightsaber and learn the ways of the Force to become a Jedi Knight.
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Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™
Single-player alternative to The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
The Man With The Hat Is Back In His Greatest Adventure Yet! 1939 - The eve of World War II. Nazi agents are about to get their hands on a weapon more dangerous than the atom bomb. Only Indy can stop them before they unleash the deadly secret that sank Atlantis.