Single-player games like Shardlight
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Shardlight, 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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Unavowed
Single-player alternative to Shardlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil. No matter what the cost.
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Primordia
Single-player alternative to Shardlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
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.
- 3
Technobabylon
Single-player alternative to Shardlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.
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Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today
Single-player alternative to Shardlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
A dying reality, a universe that’s fading away. A merciless world thatgets sick and vanishes. No past, no present, no future; only the impending moment of “dead synchronicity” ahead. Will you be able to stop it?Because, otherwise... what will you do when Time dissolves itself?
- 5
Kathy Rain
Single-player alternative to Shardlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
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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Resonance
Single-player alternative to Shardlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
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.
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Richard & Alice
Single-player alternative to Shardlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
Richard and Alice are prisoners. Both their cells have a leather sofa and a state-of-the-art computer. But only Richard’s has a TV. Outside, the snow falls. It has done for some time. Elsewhere, they say, parts of the world have been rendered an inhospitable desert, the earth parched and cracked. People live in the zones now.
- 8
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Single-player alternative to Shardlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Shardlight.
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the soil...
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Gemini Rue
Single-player alternative to Shardlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
- 10
The Blackwell Legacy
Single-player alternative to Shardlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.
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Old Skies
Single-player alternative to Shardlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Shardlight.
A time travel adventure spanning two hundred years! Dive into the past with time agent Fia Quinn as she embarks on seven trips through time. History is up for grabs, from the speakeasies of Prohibition to the vicious gangs of the Gilded Age to the World Trade Center on September 10, 2001.
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Blackwell Epiphany
Single-player alternative to Shardlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
The last game in the Blackwell series.
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Blackwell Unbound
Single-player alternative to Shardlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
The year is 1973. The sound of a lone, ethereal saxophone drifts over the Roosevelt Island promenade, while a series of accidents plague a midtown construction site. The citizens of Manhattan take no notice of these events, let alone think they are connected.
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Blackwell Convergence
Single-player alternative to Shardlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
The third game in the Blackwell series
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Blackwell Deception
Single-player alternative to Shardlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
Street psychics. Their blinking neon signs are everywhere, promising love and wealth and happiness. They make a fortune preying on the gullible and milking them dry. So when these victims begin dying and leaving confused spirits behind, it can only take a genuine psychic (and her wayward spirit guide) to clean up the mess.
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Emerald City Confidential™
Single-player alternative to Shardlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Shardlight.
<p>Work with the world's most cunning detective in the shadowy underbelly of the Emerald City of Oz! As Petra, you'll be lured deep into mysteries involving new foes and familiar faces; Scarecrow, Lion, and Toto included. This is Oz as you've never seen it before!