Single-player games like Unavowed
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Unavowed, 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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The Blackwell Legacy
Single-player alternative to Unavowed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unavowed.
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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Shardlight
Single-player alternative to Unavowed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unavowed.
A post-apocalyptic adventure game from the publisher that brought you Primordia, Gemini Rue and Technobabylon! A young woman stricken with a deadly plague searches for a cure in a hostile world.
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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Single-player alternative to Unavowed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Unavowed.
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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Technobabylon
Single-player alternative to Unavowed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unavowed.
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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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
Single-player alternative to Unavowed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unavowed.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
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Kathy Rain
Single-player alternative to Unavowed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unavowed.
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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Whispers of a Machine
Single-player alternative to Unavowed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Unavowed.
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.
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BROK the InvestiGator
Single-player alternative to Unavowed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unavowed.
An innovative adventure mixed with beat 'em up and RPG elements. In a grim world where animals have replaced mankind, what kind of detective will you be?
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Supernatural
Single-player alternative to Unavowed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unavowed.
Detective Wyatt confronts a chilling mystery as he investigates a housemaid's disappearance. Unearth sinister secrets as you navigate through a haunted house, where every shadow hides a lurking terror.
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Old Skies
Single-player alternative to Unavowed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Unavowed.
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 Unavowed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unavowed.
The last game in the Blackwell series.
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Blackwell Unbound
Single-player alternative to Unavowed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unavowed.
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 Unavowed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unavowed.
The third game in the Blackwell series
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Blackwell Deception
Single-player alternative to Unavowed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unavowed.
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 Unavowed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Unavowed.
<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!